Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found

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Alice Fox is an embroiderer and textile artist who has a strong interest in the natural world. 25 metres, which would be cut and sent as a 1. From the publisher: In 2012 she was artist-in-residence at Spurn Point National Nature Reserve in East Yorkshire, an experience that has informed much of her recent work. Textile artist Alice Fox shows how to work with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature. 10 metres). Alice is lives in Saltaire, West Yorkshire and exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally. Alongside advice on growing your own plants (such as flax or nettles) for creative work, the book is packed with practical ideas for foraging from weeds, dandelions and other plants useful for making cordage, or leaves that can be stitched, quilted and shaped into vessels, to grass, wool, plastics and mud that can be gathered and delightfully repurposed by the textile artist. Alice is based in Saltaire, West Yorkshire and she exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally. Most of the materials Alice uses are grown or gathered on her allotment plot.