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embroidered typography {colour me happy}
















I seem to have a major embroidery fetish lately that is perhaps obvious from my posts about Jillian Tamaki and Takashi Iwasaki. In particular, I am mesmerized by embroidered and tactile typography which may have been sparked when I fell in love with the extraordinary talent of Maricor Maricar (read my post about their work here). I had some server issues when attempting to post this feature yesterday which only underlines that in an almost alarmingly digital dependant world, craftsmanship like the examples above feels even more special and vital to the world of design. Hoping you find some handmade type this weekend and it colours you happy!

(images via evelin kasikov, sandy suffield, maricor maricar, peter crawley, sandy suffield, peter crawley, chez sucre chez, maricor maricar, sarah blick, rosie geissler, laura belle hanley, sarah blick, evelin kasikov, evelin kasikov, laura belle hanley & jessica wilson)

POSTED ON April 23, 2011

LABELS: art, colour me happy, fashion & textiles, many colours, typography   12 Comments   Tweet This

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7 comments

Suzanne
April 23, 2011 at 7:49 pm


These embroidered postings are incredible! It is so true that we need to remember how amazing it is to actually feel the fabric and the yarns —–digital is great but the actual craftsmanship is the best! Thank you for another fantastic colour me happy Friday!

Catriana
April 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm


These are incredible! What talent!

Sara
June 6, 2011 at 1:56 am


Thanks for putting together a great embroidery selection in one place! Love the work- Evelin Kasikov is one of my absolute favourite graphic designers who mainly uses embroidery. Love her work.

tipagrafica
June 7, 2011 at 12:51 pm


Absolutely gorgeous! So lovely… Txs for sharing it!

plentyofcolour
June 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm


Thanks for visiting! I am so inspired by gorgeous embroidered typography!

plentyofcolour
June 7, 2011 at 8:50 pm


Thanks for visiting Sara! It was such fun to put the embroidery pieces together. I totally agree about Evelin Kasikov. What an inspiration!

Color Me Zen
March 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm


SOOO beautiful! I want to stop everything I’m doing and learn to stitch JUST LIKE YOU…

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