‘Wild Textiles’ Is a Practical Guide for Turning Foraged Materials into Fiber-Based Works
All photographs by Michael Wicks, courtesy of Batsford
From gathering and retting stinging nettle to sewing leaves into delicately layered quilts, Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found is a trove of suggestions and initiatives involving natural fibers. The forthcoming e book by artist Alice Fox is a sensible information to working with nature’s supplies in any respect steps of the method: she presents recommendation on rising crops and harvesting others, learn how to remodel the uncooked matter into wire or thread, and examples of artworks that incorporate the repurposed textiles. Printed by Batsford, the quantity covers each rural and concrete findings, along with items by artists like Hillary Waters Fayle and Penny Maltby. Wild Textiles is out there for pre-order on Bookshop.
Work by Hillary Waters Fayle
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