Waaayyy back in Brown Paper Bag’s infancy, (seri­ously, I think this was one of the first entries I ever wrote!) I posted the work of Jazmín Berakha. When I wrote about her work, I was in awe of the stitch­ing and meti­ci­u­lous­ness of the details. And, I still am. Prob­a­bly even more so! As some­one ...

I often find the printed pat­terns depict­ing the 18th cen­tury kind of a snore. Their idyl­lic scenes just don’t cap­ture my inter­est. But, this all changes with the work of Richard Saja! His embroi­dery of the taboos of the time (includ­ing a con­di­tion of exces­sive hair growth) are very enter­tain­ing, espe­cially when you con­sider how ...

I saw this a cou­ple of months ago, but with all my embroi­dery on the brain I had to post it here. Jil­lian Tamaki is an illus­tra­tor who dab­bles in quilt­ing. One of her first pieces, Mon­ster Quilt, was posted on her site and I was blown away! I love the detail­ing and giant scene ...

As a “reward” for fin­ish­ing all my grad­u­ate school appli­ca­tions, I started a mini quilt. I’m not so inter­ested in piec­ing together fab­ric, but more so in hand quilt­ing and embroi­dery. The past cou­ple days I’ve spent learn­ing new stitches and it has been really fun! As a result, I’ve been a lot more aware ...

I think I’ve men­tioned before about my excite­ment to learn to quilt, and all things with nee­dle (exclud­ing drugs). My stitch­ing prowess tends to be fairly crude. That adds to my envy of Renilde Depeuter’s embroi­dery. Her newly-photographed pin­cush­ions series is titled “Metrop­o­lis”, and is impec­ca­bly stitched on burlap. In addi­tion to embroi­dery, Renilde also ...

Maggy Rozy­cki Hilt­ner makes great use of antique stores and malls, incor­po­rat­ing what she finds into her artwork. Maggy notes the tinge of sad­ness in find­ing these dis­carded trea­sures, that often require both time and skill. She also points out the embroi­dery that comes off as snarky — it has the inten­tion of being cute ...

I am fan of embroi­dered things, and Emily Eibel’s stitched work has made me a fan of her work. She’s turned ordi­nary stitch­ery on its head, depict­ing both sweet and grue­some things. I am intrigued by the latter. I think the way that Emily uses applique and embroi­dery is inter­est­ing. She uses fab­ric like cut ...

The other day while perus­ing my love for you is a stam­pede of horses., I came across some embroi­dery by Amy Black­well. I tend to have a soft spot for embroi­dered things, so I was instantly excited to see Amy’s work. I really love how well her work trans­lates from dig­i­tal work to some­thing so tac­tile. ...

When Chicago-based artist Dee Clements sent me some of her work, I was imme­di­ately drawn to the details of her col­or­ful abstrac­tions. Her work is really some­thing that should be viewed inti­mately, as the small details are what I really like about her work. Dee’s gives some expla­na­tion on her work: I never really know what I ...

A few weeks ago I posted sev­eral pieces that were embroi­dered — embroi­dery on paper and fab­ric. Megan Whit­marsh is an artist whom, among other things, exper­i­ments with embroi­dery. Her exten­sive port­fo­lio includes draw­ings, paint­ings, and sculp­ture as well. Megan has been mak­ing work for over 10 years, and she has man­aged to keep it very ...