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Design: Sculptural textiles

Monday, August 23, 2010

Design: Sculptural textiles

Helen Amy Murray is a London-based textile designer who sculpts floral designs into wools, suedes, and leathers. Her work was originally inspired by the wood and marble carvings she discovered on a research trip to India. Upon returning to London, she experimented with translating these similar sculptural effects into a new medium - textiles. The intricate patterns found in her work are a fusion of her upbringing in the English countryside with her urban city life: drawing inspiration from nature, the city and its architecture.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. The Chrysanthemum pattern sculpted in white leather.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. The Feathers pattern sculpted in beige leather.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. The Tropical pattern sculpted in ochre leather.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. The Oriental Flower pattern sculpted in sienna leather.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. The Succulent pattern sculpted in brown in leather.

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Photo © Helen Amy Murray. For those unfamiliar with Helen's work, this is an example of her gorgeous Peony pattern sculpted into the suede upholstery of a Phillimore chair.

Modern Laser Cut Textiles by Camilla Diedrich

Finding inspiration in everything from a movie to architecture, Swedish textile designer Camilla Diedrich is challenging conventional ideas of what textiles should be. She is one of the first designers to structure textiles in terms of negative space by cutting holes into them using a laser. This exploration of negative space has led to the incredible transformation of a fabric's flat surfaces into richly-textured, three-dimensional forms. Her most iconic product to date is the BPL Lamp for Rotaliana which is wrapped in the Bubbly textile.

Organic Felt Textile Art Installation by Janice Arnold

Palace Yurt was created as a site specific installation at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum by Janice Arnold to demonstrate the link between the historical origins of Felt and contemporary Felt Art though the symbolism of the yurt. Home to Turkic-Mongolian tribes for thousands of years, the yurt is a tent-like, collapsible dwelling, covered with felt. Arnold, renowned for her felt textile work, keeps with traditional Mongolian culture by creating a lavishly decorated yurt that is elaborate in its ornamentation and design.

Woven Fiber Optic Textiles by Astrid Krogh

Astrid Krogh is a Danish designer who is making her mark in the world of textiles by combining the ancient art of weaving with the most unconventional materials: fiber optics. With properties similar to those of traditional textile fibers, optical fibers can be intricately woven on a loom. When the ends of the fibers are connected to color radiating light monitors, tapestries are created with an incessant flow of ever-changing color. Astrid's woven light installations have created a new product vernacular where textiles and light merge.