Textiles

Meeting Charlotte Lawson Johnston at her new Cotswold studio, Christabel Chubb learns why fabrics made using sustainable fibres and plant-based dyes are the natural way forwards

Want to learn how to make natural dyes at home (with items you likely already have?) This guide has everything you need to get started!

TextileArtist is your creative partner.

This delicate vibrant butterfly wing is a mesmerising embroidery with intricate detail. Working quite often from the back means, you can’t always predict what the outcome will be at the front. The fragility lays in the holes created in the stitching, giving it a feeling of decay. My work explores how to replicate natures beauty with thread, either in bloom or decayed, with textures, mismatches, colours, layers and light. 60 x 45 cm unframed 72x 72 cm Floating in round frame

Textile Artist Lorraine Roy talks to us about her love of natural sciences, developing an artist voice and how to succed as an artist.

Weaving denim in process; Radha Weaver left the apparel industry and started her first quilt with fabric from her stash. Inspired by transformation, she creates art with upcycled textiles.

CAROLYN SAXBY MIXED MEDIA TEXTILES - briny - another sea inspired textile art piece with lots of texture, french knots and seed stitches. Those aqua blues work well with lime green and plum, I think, and the gold knots lift it. There is also some hand dyed paper textures on there too

These aren't your granny's quilts