Flamboyant stitches.
Victoria Villasana adds big yarn stitches to found photographs of famous people.
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Why the dots?
Yayoi Kasuma, Japan’s 90-year-old queen of pattern, would say dots are fun. She’s spent a long career designing clothing, fabric, paintings and rooms that vibrate with dots.
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Lions are an irresistible target for yarn bombing.
Pompom lion. Rasta lion. Joana Vascoucelos’ lion in white crochet. And more.
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Airy metal dresses.
Iris van Herpen’s lace metal dresses. Fannie Schiavoni’s winged dress. And more.
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The woman who sewed glorious golden dresses for Gustav Klimt.
Emilie Floge—seamstress extraordinaire and Klimt’s life companion—sewed the mosaic-inspired dresses his models wore. Adele Bloch-Bauer is wearing one in this 1907 portrait.
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Radical lace.
Lion statue covered in Joana Vascoucelos’ crocheted white lace. Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s lace collar. Tailored lace jacket by Mal Burkinshaw. And more.
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In-your-face florals.
Venice street art. Shoulder tattoo. Graffiti flowers. And more.
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Sun’s rays.
The Borges family of woodcut artists like to illuminate the rays of the sun with a block of assertive color.
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1000 meticulously folded paper cranes.
Romanian artist Cristian Marianciuc carefully folded a tiny new paper crane every day for 1000 days.
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Lavender is a quirky neutral.
Lavender adds depth to other colors. Here’s an Ivory Coast ikat with seams called out in lavender. Lavender streaked platinum bob. Art quilt with lavender background. And more.
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