Cord

At the heart of Cord's  'Album '91' collection is craft, hand embroidery, appliqué, smocking, and patchwork bringing texture and depth whilst layered prints and playful pattern clashes bring a sense of joyful movement to every piece. The styling appears to echo Wez Anderson, but the real influence at play here is the work of director Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who Wez Andreson always looked to for inspiration.

Heidi Parkes

This quilt (above and below) by Heidi Parkes is like a wonderful new watercolour set, you just want to dive in.

All of Heidi's quilts are masterpieces in patience hand stitched and embroidered.

Pale

 

Pale  takes the concept of repair, distress and patchwork to new aesthetic extremes, creating stunning  garments.

Ann Coddington

 

Woven organ like vessels by Ann Coddington.

Of the piece directly above Ann writes:

My “albatross” vessels are woven from linen fibers and inside contain plastic that I collected over a month’s time: some of my own plastic and some found while walking to my studio. What appears elegant, organic and pure, like the body of the albatross, hides discarded detritus within. The woven vessel, like the body of the albatross, will most certainly decompose long before the plastic within. Before that happens, I hope we will have found a viable way to take greater action in dealing with our plastic waste. This series is a way to take some responsibility for my part of this problem and to bring this conversation to the forefront of my work.

Lyndie Dourthe

 

French textile artist Lyndie Dourthe's musings on love and connection, the threads of emotion that tie us together are little joys, a combination of applique, collage and other textile techniques. 

Luci Jockel

"Can the touch of bee wings on one’s shoulders serve as a reminder of the fragility of life? In my work, the bee is a martyr for our ecosystem- a symbol of the influence we have upon non-human counterparts and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable." Luci Jockel 

Luci Jockel is a jeweller based in Baltimore who is also Metal smithing & Jewellery Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Here she has sources over 20000 bee wings from hives that died due to harsh winter/ climate change, and created incredible lace like pieces. In exchange for the bee remains she helped the bee keeper re-build his hives for the next year. Since then Luci and her dad have become bee keepers.

"The honey bee serves as a symbol of our interconnectivity, the influence we have upon non-human counterparts, and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable. It is not only about the bees, who have a complex impact on agriculture, but the pollinators, the insects, the animals that make up our ecosystem and our lost connection to them."

Freya Ledingham

 

Freya Ledingham's 2nd year project for 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, is a chicken with a woven chicken head, a four colour bubble knit wrap over cardigan complete with egg pocket, a woven feather skirt over a hoop skirt, with raffia stitched legs and feet. Her design was very much inspired by natural materials and mummer traditions. Photography is by Laurence Winram.