Welcome to Fibredance
A Gallery of Textile Art by Carol Coleman
All Images are the property of the artist.
Putting the finishing touches to the 'Dire Wolf Crest', my contribution to the 'Hardhome Embroidery', created for HBO Game of Thrones. This huge embroidery was designed and produced by the Embroiderers' Guild with other organisations.
Visit www.embroiderersguild for more information and venues where you may find it exhibited.
Dire Wolf Crest
Free-machine embroidery with leather and beads. Diameter approx 12 cms.
Workshops
If you are interested in free-machine embroidery workshops in my studio near York, please email for full details. Cost is £35 for a full day unless otherwise specified, which does not include materials, but some available to buy if required.
Class size is usually limited to 5 students, but can run with just 2.
Levels from beginner to advanced.
Please email carol@fibredance to register for details of upcoming workshops in 2019.
Requirements will be sent out once booked.
Images relating to workshops
Ideas for what to make at the workshops.
In different shapes and sizes, the brooches could be made into many things.
Set in stone could be a pendant, brooch, bracelet, a feature on a book cover or bag etc.
Silk Fibre Bowls seem as delicate as cobwebs
Practical Coil Vessels can be many shapes and colours.
Clingfilm Sandwiches are unique collages of fabric and fibre waiting to inspire.
Scarborough Rock V
Scarborough Rock V. Fabric collage with couched cords and free-machine embroidery.
Glimpse of Yorkshire
Mosaic meets stained glass window. The top section of a tall piece using dyed silk and cotton, bonded and sliced to resemble mosaices and assembled to give the effect of stained glass.
Spirit of York II
Free-machine embroidery and fabric collage of York Minster, showing at the Marriott Hotel, York from 11th September 2019.
My work can be seen at the following places or events:
York Textile Artists at The Marriott. Seven members will be exhibiting work based on Yorkshire themes in the reception area of the York Marriott Hotel Tadcaster Road, YO24 1QQ from 11th September - 21st October 2019.
York Textile Artists at York Cemetery Chapel 16/17th November 2019.
Compass Points, York Textile Artists 11th February - 16th March 2020 at City Screen, York.
Email carol@fibredance.co.uk to arrange an individual visit to my studio in Wigginton near York.
Tree Bark
Free-machine embroidery of tree bark, about A4 in size. Taken from a photograph of a tree in Moorlands Nature Reserve, Wigginton.
Earth Beauty IV
Free-machine embroidery of an interesting rock.
Slice of the Past II
Applique, hand and free-machine embroidery, quilted and sprinkled with chips of Peridot, Citrine and Rock crystal. Private Collection.
Fibredancing: Brooches, Bracelets, Rings & Things.
Fibredancing
Available only from the author.
Soft cover, 32 colour pages showing how to start making free-machine embroidered jewellery. £9.50, post-free in the UK. Email me to order - carol@fibredance.co.uk
Cliffhanger
Large free-machine embroidery of part of the sea wall in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
Original is for sale.
High quality Giclee prints available from the artist.
Luxor
Free-machine embroidery inspired by The Luxor in Las Vegas.
Private Collection.
Slice of the Past III
Free-machine embroidery. Exhibited at the Ferens Open 2017.
Private Collection.
House of Treasures
Free-machine embroidery inspired by The Treasure House in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
Small vessel with hand made decorative bead.
The following Links may be of interest to you, but I make no guarrantee of their content or services.
Share
Print 