A sleek splash in the Olympic pool by Samantha Arevalo Salinas of Ecuador in the women’s 800-meter freestyle heat yesterday inspired your scribe to refresh her interest in Ecuadorean rugs (alfombras). Olga Fisch was a significant figure in the global promotion and...
Lincoln Road Serape is a summer 2012 woven street installation by Harlem studio-based artist Katherine Daniels for the City of New York's DOT Urban Art Program. Daniels uses plastic ribbon to weave designs in the city's chain link fencing. Her work can also be seen at...
Ernesto Neto (b.1964) is one of Brazil's leading contemporary artist artist who creates new worlds and spaces with his giant installations and sculptures which tend to made up of stretchy, stocking-like material in amorphous forms stuffed with foam pellets or, on...
Ten thousand metres of coloured yarn were used to create artist Lee Baker's amazing installation work Refractive Monolith. Commissioned by The Future Tense for its 'SPECTRA I' exhibition at the end of 2011, the installation utilizes the corner of the gallery to...
During Dutch Design Week 2011 in October We Make Carpets held an exhibition of new works on a different scale to the trio of designers' normal rug creations. The tiny rugs placed in a model house were made of materials like confetti, flower petals, nails, matches,...
Abigail Brown is a London-based textile artist who will be showing work at the contemporary craft fair Origin during the London Design Festival. She makes textile birds, which are hand sewn from fabrics that Brown collects and are incredibly life-like. She learned...
Married couple Shao Yinong and Muchen are Chinese artist who produce work that reflects contemporary life and the cultural revolution in China. The couple's latest project Spring and Autumn focuses on the pursuit of wealth with a series of twelve embroidered...