FIBRE Art PODCAST
Stitch Safari
Australian Textile Artist, Cathy Jack Coupland hosts this brand-new fortnightly safari-inspired podcast, now with over 23.3K downloads. Journey into the beguiling world of stitch, textiles, design and embroidery, with insights into its history, use, and innovations. Join this unique expedition and thread your way into the amazing and irresistible world of needle and thread.
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Embroidered Christmas Treasures
Stitch Safari listeners, why not share your Christmas stitching projects on the Stitch Safari Facebook page?
Australian Textile Artist Annemieke Mein
This episode pays tribute to an embroidery artist who, from a very young age, was devoted to capturing and recording the beauty and complexity of nature, learning to note intricate details that would later lay a foundation for her work in textiles. This Dutch-born...
Machine Embroidery – Book Reviews
This is a follow-up to the last episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, Masters of Our Machines, and focuses on books offering inspiration, technique, and thoughts on the artistry of machine embroidery today. In the vast sea that makes up the book world which are the...
Masters of our Machines
'If I can draw it, I can stitch it' is my mantra. I'm talking about using a sewing machine as a mark-making, art and design tool to create lines, shapes, and patterns using a needle and thread, often with the feed dogs disengaged, forming personal narratives and...
Master Embroiderers: Alice Kettle and Salley Mavor
In this episode of Stitch Safari, I want to talk about two amazing, exciting and innovative embroiderers. They were chosen because of how differently they work, highlighting the diversity embroidery offers. But it doesn't stop there. They live on either side of the...
Steampunk and Textile Art
This is the perfect setting for a new body of work – think past, present and future – all with a touch of mystery, adventure and romance.
Books Using Stitch, Textile or Fibre Imagery
You all know my passion for books and videos, well one genre I've completely overlooked is the style of book that uses embroidery, textiles and fibre as the imagery to help tell the story. This caught my attention while researching another topic, so I thought I'd...
Videos Recreating Costume and Embroidery
So if you’re looking for something interesting to watch in the evenings, search out some of the videos offering this type of content.
Stitch and Textiles in Biennale Art – Two Artists
Join me in this fascinating episode of Stitch Safari as I analyse the use of textiles and embroidery in two specific artworks to communicate and record huge injustices in artworks featured in Biennales.
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