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Project Runway Winning Design
This was my favorite dress from last night and I was hoping it would win. I love all the appliqueing he did and the fabric combination. If I were skinny enough, I would definitely wear it.
Re-creation of a Lavishly Embroidered 17th-century Coat
She knew it could take hundreds of people thousands of hours to do the intricate needlework, using a centuries-old embroidery stitch few people know. As if that wasn’t enough challenge, the materials needed – silver gilt threads, hand-cut sequins – had been out of production for centuries and would have to be reinvented.
The story of the jacket and the required labor is told on Nyguyen’s site Thistle-Threads on the Plimoth Plantation website.
(Via Fashion-Incubator)
Illustration and Embroidery by Naomi Ryder
Naomi Ryder is a textile designer and illustrator specializing in embroidery, drawing with stitch to create beautiful images of the everyday. See more of her work on her website.
New Printsource Blog
Pattern People’s Jessie and Claudia will be posting entries about all things print-related; from runway collections to the world of interiors.
Christmas List is Done, Y’all
Launched at Burning ManSM as a cooperative art car project, the Cupcake Car sprang from the fevered mind of Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace and her less-rules-more-laughs posse of artists and techno geeks.
Available where else but the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book for $25,000. I’ll take one with chocolate icing and nitrous under the hood please!
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