I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats
'Uncommon Valor' 2025 by Canadian textile artist Wally Dion 189 ¼ h x 146 w inches created from various fabric, fringe, copper pipe. Exhibited in Fiskars Finland until Aug 31.
Freyja Crow is a young multi discipline artist who has a distinct style and often works on masks and costumes, here are some of her 'Sprout' series.
330 symbols of Palestinian embroidery from historic Palestine, produced by the young woman Radden Nasrallah, daughter of Raed Nasrallah. Thank you Susan
Fern Strang's Moonface from 'The Far Away Tree' by Enid Blyton
This costume was designed for an outdoor interactive experience at the Botanical Gardens. The piece is sustainable and climate conscious, all the materials it is constructed with are bio-degradable or recyclable. Fern Strang
'I Can No Longer Hold Your Body' emerges from a study of hand-lettering through filet crochet to code messages of care, solidarity, and connection with the working class. It responds to a design industry that continues to devalue artistic labor while encouraging competition over collective support. These works inhabit space as a counter-practice to conventional typographic norms, challenging the corporate drive to streamline, commodify, and dilute creative expression.Approximately 15,500 squares and 150 hours of work make up the piece, and it measures to approx. 5ft x 5ft. Helen Elizabeth Nichols
Helen Nichols graduate show for MDes Communication Design explored textile lettering.
My practice explores care, communication, and resistance through textiles and typography. Rooted in a lineage of skilled laborers, caregivers, and quiet advocates, I approach design as both a craft and a political act. I work with tactile materials like tufting, crochet, and fabric to reframe protest as soft, slow, and intimate.
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Caitlin Hutton's costume for 'Over The Garden Wall' features a woven puppet hat.
Over the Garden Wall
My first project re-imagines the beloved Cartoon Network animated series 'Over the Garden Wall', created by Patrick McHale, as an adaptation for stage. The story follows two young boys trying to return home through a mysterious forest landscape, referred to as 'the unknown'. My designs combine early 1900s fashion with 1970s fashion, to convey the unconventional environment to audiences through live theatre.
My costume created for 'Beatrice', a girl cursed to be a bluebird, utilises puppetry and millinery techniques alongside screenprinting, machine knitting, and visible mending to create Beatrice's bluebird form and her regular attire underneath. Caitlin Hutton
