Viewpoints
Viewpoints is an international fiber art collective founded in 2012. Together they explore changing themes, consider individual interpretations, encourage experimentation, and share their creative process. Their work is exhibited around the world. Viewpoints is an intimate portrait of its artists, transcending language, distance and culture. Artists members include Alicia Merrett (UK), Betty Busby (USA), Desedamas […]
France Patchwork
In 2024, France Patchwork, the French Quilt Guild, celebrates its 40th anniversary, reaffirming its desire to showcase its know-how and exchange practices. The aim of this voluntary association is to promote patchwork and its different fields (Artextures, Quilts de Légende, Les Jeunes Poussent, Modern Quilt, Traditional…). With worldwide representation, France Patchwork is the link between […]
France Patchwork
In 2024, France Patchwork, the French Quilt Guild, celebrates its 40th anniversary, reaffirming its desire to showcase its know-how and exchange practices. The aim of this voluntary association is to promote patchwork and its different fields (Artextures, Quilts de Légende, Les Jeunes Poussent, Modern Quilt, Traditional…). With worldwide representation, France Patchwork is the link between […]
Val Patch
Val Patch is an association from the Silver Valley (Val d’Argent in Franch) region (Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc), which is composed of over 20 friends. Its members are patchwork enthusiasts and some of them have been patchworking for over 30 years. They all have different scholarly backgrounds and different experiences in the textile industry, […]
European Quilt Association
EQA is a cooperation of the European Quilt Guilds above the national level. It has developed into a joint venture amongst the 19 member guilds with the overall intention to offer all European quilters a means of interaction and exposure. Annual challenges on a certain topic without jurying are regularly backed by selected exhibitions to […]
Léna Meszaros
Léna Meszaros is of Hungarian and Russian origin, and lives in France, where she discovered patchwork in the 1990s. Through contemporary patchwork, she finds her personal expression in figurative quilt art, which she transposes into mixed media. The use of various materials in her creations – acrylic pouring, plastic, metal, recycled cardboard – pushes her […]
Deutsch-Afghanische Initiative
Guldusi, the Afghan hand embroidery program run by the German association Deutsch-Afghanische Initiative, was launched in 2004, 20 years ago! Afghan women from 3 villages were motivated to resume hand embroidery, an activity they had abandoned during the long years of war, their priorities being elsewhere. We present this long journey of exchange between embroiderers […]
Anne Bellas
Anne lives in Nantes, Brittany, France. She has taught languages in several European countries, and it wasn’t until 2015 that she discovered textile art. It quickly became a total passion. She uses a few commercially-available cottons, but above all the cotton and linen sheets and tablecloths inherited from her great-grandmother, which she dyes or prints […]
Brasilidade
Brasilidade is a group formed by 18 Brazilian artists: Estela Mota, Verônica Abad, Rosa Fiuza Faria, Marina Landi, Myrian Melo, Monika Wutzl, Carmen Netto, Silvia Rohden, Valeria Cervetto, Aparecida Barbosa, Dulce Magalhaes, Sarah Luise Kaminski, Dóris Teixeira, Fabia Diniz, Rute Sato, Adriana H. M. U. Sleutjes, Eva Malinowski and Sandra Caruso. As curator, art quilt […]
Quiltersgilde
The Dutch Quiltersgilde is the leading association of quilters in the Netherlands. The association was founded in 1983 and has around 8,000 members. The board consists of 7 members. All activities are carried out by approximately 70 volunteers. The Quiltersgilde connects quilters and shares quilting information in the broadest sense of the word. It organizes […]
Carmen Netto
Carmen Netto is passionate about art. She began with illustration and graphic design, but it was in textile art that she found a way to express herself. Whether obvious or subtle, geometric shapes have always been present in her work, and their study is interesting in her works. Freedom in the use of color, improvisation […]
Rute Sato
Rute Sato was born in Brazil from Japanese immigrant parents. She graduated in product design and delved into the art of quilting when lived for a period in Japan. She has a studio in São Paulo where she’s been teaching patchwork for the past 20 years. She dedicates her spare time to creating art quilts […]