Insects have been used as adornment and recreated in textiles for centuries. I'm sharing a smattering here of some beautiful contemporary textile art of insects.
Check out the sensitive textile nature art of Dutch-born Australian artist Annemieke Mein here. She works in various media including textiles, and the textile art includes these beautiful insects:
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| Textile insects by Annemieke Mein |
Born in England and based in Kenya, artist
Sophie Standing uses textile art to portray the wildlife she sees. I absolutely love this bee:
She does a lot of the African megafauna, but this dung beetle is charming:
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| Dung Beetle textile art by Sophie Standing |
Michele Carragher is a London costume embroidery for film and TV who has done extraordinary work (for shows like Game of Thrones). Some of her insect-themed work:
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| Detail of Game of Thrones costume embroidery by Michele Carragher |
You can find the delightful work of UK embroiderer Humayrah Bint Altaf on
instagram and
Etsy as The Olde Sewing Room.
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