Birds

Textiles are a multi-faceted material. In the hands of Englishwoman Zara Merrick, scraps of fabric turn into colorful canvases with the image of birds-from fearsome owls to budgies.In her work, the craftswoman often uses old fabrics from her own collection, which is constantly updated with new cuts ...

Sophia Drescher has recently started embroidering, it was January of 2019. This passion really captured the girl: "I love embroidery because fabrics, threads and yarn inspire you to stay in touch with nature, be interested in the living world and even push you to learn more and more about it.& ...

I love birds! I even have a special app on my phone so that when I meet an unknown bird I could quickly specify the size, color and place and discover what bird is in front of me. Therefore, I always admire artists-"ornithologists", who create birds from polymer clay, ...

We present you a vintage embroidered panel from the 19th century in a frame from France. This is tambour embroidery on silk. The picture shows a nest of partridges. Materials: silk threads, silk fabric, wooden frame. This delightful embroidered work comes from France and dates back to the early 19th ...

Miniaturists are like wizards: they manage to recreate real objects in such a small format that you sometimes cannot see all the details without a magnifying glass. However, Hungarian artist Fanni Sándor broke all records for me! The craftswoman creates animals, birds, reptiles and ...

Allison May Kiphuth is an artist from the United States, living on the coast. Since childhood, Allison has felt her connection with nature, travels a lot through the fields and forests, watching the life of animals and finds her places of strength in the quiet lost corners. In her work, she has ...

The artist Joy Williams lives in the UK, in a small town at the foot of the Pennines. She lives with two sons, two cats, a small terrier Lucas and several chickens . Once "wandering" around the Internet in search of pictures for my home patterns album design, I saw one of her drawings. ...

The British artist Catherine Wells creates beautiful birds of papier-mache. In the work she uses old magazines with color pictures. She painstakingly collects tiny torn pieces of paper — "feathers"— to create beautiful colors in the plumage of her birds. Catherine gets a lot of inspiration ...

I want to introduce you to a wonderful book about satin stitch embroidery by Helen M. Stevens "One Simple Stitch" (publisher: Rainbow disks ltd). The title of the book describes the method, which this English embroiderer developed and began to use in teaching embroidery.Helen M. Stevens ...

The earth is full of talents! Here is another artist whose works are both realistic and stylized at the same time. It is impossible to walk past him without gasping. The sculptor Igor Verniy from Krasnoyarsk has a talent of seeing in a pile of metal a living thing — insects, birds, reptiles. There ...

Atelier Saint Clare in Cheshire (England) was founded by Stephanie Bonneau, the senior designer and a teacher of embroidery. Born in France, Stephanie always wanted to be an embroiderer and she understood her passion for embroidering after school.Throughout her career Stephanie Bonneau worked at ...

In the beginning of 2018 the creative duo of artists from India Nayan Shrimali and Vaishali Chudasama started a project "365 Days of Miniatures". Every day they cut a new tiny bird from watercolour paper and paint it. In the authors' collection there are bright tropical creations and ...