All that remains . . .

 

Left in a field and decomposed for about a 20 year period, this is a pair of Wrangler jeans is now down to its toxic skeleton of leaving behind only synthetic fibers and the metal hardware. It is facinating to see what the world cannot digest and it is plastic! Found near Sacramento by @darnvintage about 6 years ago at an estate sale and now part of the Wrangler Archives. (thanks)

Mary Shelby

 

Mary Shelby’s fascination with buttons began after seeing her mother’s button box. As her own collection grew, along with an interest in quiltmaking and design, Shelby imagined a quilt made entirely of buttons. Using 11,923 flat buttons attached to what was likely a white tablecloth with a lace trim, she adapted a Friendship Quilt pattern published in the Kansas City Star in 1938.

Cassie Arnold

Cassie Arnold's exploration of femininity through her knitted mum bra series.

Jonathon Baldock II

 

Jonathan Baldock has also makes performative costumes as part of his art. These costumes were made for The Kokoro Dance Theatre Society's LSD 'Love Sex and Death' 

Jonathan Baldock I

 Jonathan Baldock has just had an exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, I have to admit I didn't get to it on my latest trip, time had been spent gloriously exploring Sheffield (first time ever) with my great friend and we didn't get to YSP until late in the afternoon. These examples are not from this exhibition though, these are more exclusively textile applique from an exhibition in 2019 at Stephen Friedman Gallery

Rima Day

 

Rima Day is an Americaan textile artist who is currently making fabric books currently investigating the idea that needle and thread for her is the same as pen and ink for a writer. Her work has for some time been focused on shear fabric combined with venal red thread.

Shradha Kochhar

 

Shradha Kochhar sculpts and draws with textiles. I love and am therefore featuring her sheer compositions for their scale, delicacy and the light play that they cause.