Category Archives: Handcrafted

Meg Callahan

December 2, 2015 12:02 AM \

Meg-CallahanThese clean geometric quilts are the works of textile artist, Meg Callahan, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. She uses a combination of traditional quilting processes and modern production techniques to create these contemporary throws and wall pieces. On an interview with “We Are Visual Animals” she says this of ‘traditional construction methods’ that inspire her work:

“I like to honor and explore the rules of craftsmanship. Each craft has a set of rules that have been formulated over time to reach a point of perfection: a blending of honoring a material and its properties, the function of the object, and our human curiosities and creativity. When you are first dabbling in a craft, the work is at its most creative and innovative, because you haven’t learned the rules and therefore you have no obligation to follow them. Then you learn the rules and your work becomes weighed down by the rules. I am inspired by the point in which a maker moves past being constrained by rules and begins to work with the rules in their favor.”

Images: Courtesy of Meg Callahan.

Posted in: Handcrafted, Sewing, Textile

Jules Hogan

December 1, 2015 12:02 AM \

JulesHoganJules Hogan is a freelance knitwear designer based in the UK. She has created this evolving line of fashion and home accessories on a re-conditioned knitting machine in her garden studio. On an interview with Folksy market place she says:

“My specialisation is knitted textiles, but I also have experience in print, embroidery, and colour prediction. In 2008 I started developing my own collection. This allows me to carry an idea through to the end product – quite often working for a client, you come up with the initial idea, knit the fabric and then wave it farewell as the company produces the final piece.”

Images: Courtesy of Jules Hogan.

Posted in: Accoutrements, Handcrafted, Home Accessories, Knitting

Kazuhito Takadoi

November 11, 2015 12:02 AM \

KazuhitoTakadoiNagoya native Kazuhito Takadoi creates these embroidered composition using materials he has grown and selected in his own garden. The horticulture and art graduate hand threads leaves, grasses and twigs onto heavy handmade washi paper. He writes this about his art:

“Nature is both my inspiration and my source of material, which is provided in abundance from my garden and allotment. There are no added colours, everything is natural, simply dried then woven, stitched or tied.”

Images: Courtesy of Kazuhito Takadoi.

Posted in: Embroidery, Handcrafted, Japan, Weaving
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