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‘Forest Floor’ using Lutradur by Karen Lane
Karen made this intricate and beautifully detailed piece of work as a sample for her Forest Floor Workshop – a fun two-day event using Lutradur and other materials. Techniques include painting, use of heat guns, soldering irons, plus hand and machine stitching. Karen says she used painted, heat-distressed and stitched Lutradur 70gsm to create the leaves and various yarns and hand embroidery for the mossy forest floor. The fallen tree bark is painted and heat distressed Tyvek, again hand embroidered and the whole thing has been sewn on to Calico, before mounting on a canvas. Size 32cms x 28cms. […]
Abstract Artwork using Lutradur by Karen Lane
We’re delighted to showcase two more pieces of work sent into us by Mixed Media Textile Artist, Karen Lane. The first is a beautiful composition using Lutradur 30, painted with acrylics which has been cut into long thin strips with a soldering iron. This was then layered randomly with organza (also cut with a soldering iron), textured paper and dyed scrim on a backing of Lutradur 70. Karen says – ‘When I’m creating abstract work, I don’t work from sketches, I simply arrange and rearrange the pieces until they look balanced and they tell me that that’s where they […]
Lutradur Tulips
There’s nothing like a few flowers for heralding the start of Spring and these should last a very long time! They are easy to make and would add a splash of colour to any room. We made the petals from Lutradur 30gsm (the lightest weight we supply) and coloured them using Orange, Lemon, Wine Red and Vivid Violet transfer paints. The leaves were cut from Lutradur 70gsm (a medium weight Lutradur) and coloured using Lime Green and Emerald Green transfer paints. (However, we could have used a double thickness of Lutradur 30gsm to achieve a similar result). Please do […]
Bull’s Head in Lutradur & Evolon
Inspired by the Chinese New Year of the Ox, we decided to make a collage of a bull’s head using a mixture of Lutradur and Evolon. All we need to do now, is paste or sew it all together!
Lutradur Artwork by Sheila Dalgleish
Sheila is an accomplished Textile Artist, who has kindly contributed to our website on several occasions. We are delighted to bring you three more examples of her work, as pictured below – Sheila tells us that Beinn na Moine is a rocky hillside on the island of Barra. To create this piece of work, she applied a fusible to the Lutradur and then drew the areas she wanted to cut out, before using a sharp pair of scissors to remove the unwanted material. She then fused the Lutradur on to the background fabric, carefully choosing where and how the […]
Daffodils for St David’s Day (in Evolon)
St David – or Dewi Sant in Welsh – was born on the south-west coast of Wales, near to where the city of St David’s is today. Each year, Welsh people mark the anniversary of his death (1st March) by wearing one or both of Wales’ national emblems – a daffodil and a leek. To make our daffodils, we coloured some pieces of Evolon with transfer paints in pale lemon, golden yellow and orange and then drew round fluted pastry cutters of various sizes to create the basic flower shape. We then cut towards the centre of each circle to create […]
Draught Excluder in Evolon
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching and so many of us spending more time indoors, why not show your home some Love with a colourful draught excluder? We used a piece of Evolon (which had previously been dyed a gorgeous shade of dark blue) to make the basic sausage shape and then, using our computer, printed the text using a bold type face. We chose a font called Marker Felt size 200pt for ‘Home’ and ‘Heart’, but reduced the size to 125pt for the rest of the words. After carefully cutting out the letters, we drew round them on to some more […]
Lutradur & Zeelon Capes – ‘Cloaked in Darkness’ – by Ruth Lee
Ruth Lee (born Coventry, UK) is a textile artist, print-maker and visual story teller, currently living in Central Portugal, having relocated from Cumbria in April 2013. She made these dramatic cloaks for a recent exhibition entitled ‘Roses in January?’ after being inspired by The Legend of the Miracle of the Roses. The story goes that Rainha Santa Isabel left her castle deep in the winter to distribute bread, concealed in her cloak, to the poor. Challenged by the King (who did not approve of her charitable work), she declared she was carrying only roses. Suspicious, the King exclaimed “Roses? In […]
Snowman Family (in Evolon)
These little snowmen have been made from rectangular pieces of Evolon (20cms wide), which have been curled up into cylindrical shapes and stapled in position. They range in height from 6cms, 9cms to 12cms and are very quick and easy to make. Simply cut a small hole in the position of the nose (approximately 6mm in diameter) and, using a black biro, draw on some eyes and a friendly smile. Then colour a semicircle of Evolon (6cms in diameter) with acrylic paint, before rolling into a cone shape to form a carrot nose. Push the nose through the hole until it fits snugly and stays in place and then decorate your snowman to […]
Poppies by Vivienne Challans (using Zeelon)
Vivienne decided to make these beautiful poppies in support of Remembrance Day. She chose Zeelon (a lovely lightweight sheer fabric) for the petals, which she coloured using heat transfer dye. Zeelon gives exceptionally good results when coloured using this method, as can be seen by the rich vibrant red of the poppies.By holding the petals with a pair of silicone tongs, Vivienne then gently softened the edges using the heat from a candle (being careful to be in a well ventilated room).After putting a little fold in the petals and arranging them into a natural shape, she then completed […]