100.000 bomen en een bos van draad, foto Rogier Chang, courtesy by the artist Showing the importance of nature and celebrating it. That’s what artist Sara Vrugt did in 2020 through organising a community-embroidery project, called 100.000 bomen en een bos van draad (100.000 trees and a forest of thread). Volunteers from all over the …
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Human Limits, the making
Human Limits, Mique Menheere, Photo Carlotte Cruijsen My early questions Since I was a teenager I have always asked myself why borders exist. Why do countries exist..? why do we build walls…? When I started travelling in my twenties, I experienced at different continents and countries, that in essence we are alle the same. Due …
Lizgstitches, about eyes, ink and the Moon
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Although I have never met Elizabeth Griffiths, also known as Lizgstitches, I suspect we have the same kind of fascination… namely with marks and the moon. Half a year ago, wandering through Instagram, I ran into her embroidered image of the moon. To me it was just… like a lightning …
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Catalogue In-between Microcosmo y Macrocosmo, Alexandra Knie
Study of near Earth asteroid 253 Mathilde, 2018, Alexandra Knie, acrylic, machine embroidery on canvas wood panel, photo courtesy by the artist Our universe … it’s origin … it’s boundaries… Since my early childhood these topics interest me. So my eyes lit up when I discovered this catalogue with embroidered “spacy art” of artist Alexandra …
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Diary project Hand@Work
Finished work, work and photo Mique Menheere, design Pauline Nijenhuis the photo it started with… Kruispunt (Crossroads), design & photo Pauline Nijenhuis Done! What a great feeling it was to finish my work far before the deadline given… As you may know, I’m participating in Pauline Nijenhuis’ art project Hand@Work. With 5 artists in total …
New Potatoes, Tilleke Schwarz
Playground, 2008, Tilleke Schwarz, courtesy by the artist Not being arty? “When I told gallery owners that I embroidered, they stop”. This is what Tilleke Schwarz (1946, Pijnacker, Netherlands) experienced in the nineties trying to exhibit and sell her work at galleries. Me myself I expericence the same when talking to people about my embroidery …
Sampler diary, Megaliths
Love for making samplers For some reason I love making samplers. Trying out things, make little attempts for working with all kind of techniques… At this blog I will regularly show samplers I made. And tell something about the “how, what and why” of it. A kind of diary, you could say… Love for architecture …