A Beautiful Sacrifice

Xenia Rybina is a embroidery designer originally from Russia currently living in Paris.  How did you get into embroidery? Two of my passions combined together, and that was the outcome.  When I was a child, I was always sewing something, learned crochet and made stuffed toys out of old clothes. In university I graduated as…

Emote A Story

Vorn Vann is an embroidery artist from Ontario Canada. How did you get into textiles? I’m new to embroidery and have only started this year, but my interest in textiles started in early childhood as I grew up watching my very crafty mother sewing and crocheting. I’ve always loved art and clothing design, but wasn’t sure how…

Talking Textiles

I came across one of Taiwo’s creations a few months ago at the Black Blossoms exhibition held at the University of Arts London. I was coincidentally listening to Frank Ocean’s Pink + White when I saw displayed her feathered clutch bag with synonymous colours. Taiwo Sonekan is a London based womenswear designer that designs clothes…