Textile Tales in PLASTIC REIMAGINED

There's enough of it around - we may as well create with it!

Patchwork hot air ballon created from recycled plastic bags . By Tomas Saraceno. 

Plastic braid art pieces by Lila Roo

Quilt by artist and weaver Ed Rossbach, find out more about him here. I’m looking more at his work and getting a bit obsessed - think he’ll need his own edition soon…

By Guacolda

Above and below by Debra Wade who makes amazing stitched 3D sculptures from recycled plastics

One of my own experiments into learning how to create netting (using recycled bags)

Textile art from waste plastics by Helen O’Shea

By the master of material manipulation Noir Kei Ninomiya

Nylon dress by Nensi Avetisian

Playful knitted forms by RCA student Zizi

Collages made from painted milk cartons and collected plastics by Lucie Summers

Mixed plastic stitch by Kirsten Farrell

Intricate thread sculptures in acrylic boxes by Isobel Currie. Check out her Instagram where she has videos of them, they really transform as your perspective moves around the box.

That’s it for now. Less shiny next time, promise x