nuno felt dress: wool and silk
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
On authentic creativity and ethics. Interviews.
An interesting feature and interview with 3 textile artists - Elis Vermeulen. Visual artist., Andrea Graham and me, Vilte Kazlauskaite - on authentic creativity and ethics, published in Australian magazine "Felt" ArtWear Publications, issue 12, 2014. Thoughts spinning around creative identity, true self, balance, ethics, etc. And one of my most favorite quotes from this article is the answer of Elis on a question of stimulation of revealing one's true self:
"Stimulation is not a word I would use myself, I would rather say there is no other way. I do not see the reason to reveal someone else's thoughts as if they were mine. Same as I only want to live my life and not someone else's I guess".
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Textile Art around the World
Happy to be included in the new released book "Textile art around the world" which is a nice compilation of very different textile artists' works, I found some tapestries, embroidery, shibori, knitting pieces that are just amazing. The book can be ordered at http://www.textile-link.com/ and you can read what textile is for each artist featured in the book. Enjoy.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
State of the Art.
There are 3 videos released so far and all of them are so worth watching and listening to to increase your conscious choice in this world of textiles. But a second video has my work as illustration on the talk of Sass Brown, researcher, writer, blogger (ecofashiontalk.com), and educator, her area of expertise is eco fashion, about inspiring, great design and traditional materials and techniques (it starts on minute 1:55):http://catalysta.org/passion/whats-cost-fashion/
Saturday, September 27, 2014
World of Wearable Art 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Wedding stories
photography by Viktorija Vaisvilaite
photography by Svetlana Batura
Every love and wedding story is different in its own beautiful way. And I am happy to meet people who want their stories “written” in unique handmade natural ways with nuno felt dresses and jackets. It is always unique.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Hand writings in blue
Handwritings in blue. Nuno felt piece from wool, silk, and flax. Natural dyes: indigo.
A piece participated in The International Nantong Craft Biennale 2014, in China.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Authentic Creativity and Ethics
Australian Felt magazine publishing my article on Authentic Creativity and Ethics http://artwearpublications.com.au/subscriptions/felt-magazine.html(by ArtWear Publications)
With the editor's note by Wendy Bailye:
"We have a special article by Vilte on ethics and authenticity - a very timely topic. With the growth of the internet and with so many images of precious work being published, there are ever increasing concerns about people copying other peoples work and denying their own creative selves. Vilte presents us with some interesting research and questions".
Photography in the article is by me and SVETLANA BATURA* fotografija. And thank you to our beautiful models - Beata Molyte and Helman Lik.
This article is the first part - a theoretical, psychological, research approach to the matter. The second part of the article will be published in December issue with interviews with some of very well known textile artists, as well as my personal point of view.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
4 full Moons
4 Full Moons - a skirt with the circumference of 4 circles.
nuno felt: silk, wool, fresh water pearls
natural dyes: weld, indigo, logwood
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Handprint
Who really made your clothes?
From Director Mary Nighy and Producers White Lodge comes Handprint, a provocative short film starring Elettra Wiedemann. Premiered at London Fashion Week at the launch of the Green Carpet Challenge
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
First book "Veltinis" is now in English!
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Rustic felt on the cover
Felt and natural dyeing by me on the cover of Lithuanian People magazine, worn by beautiful Lithuanian actress Egle Jackaite and her sons. Photography by Viktorija Vaisvilaite.
The idea of the photographer was to create rustic and cozy image of the family members. For this I chose delicate silk, cotton muslin, wool, spun silk embroidery and natural dyeing and improvised eco printing of the garments. I used madder, cochineal, alkanet, walnut and young alder collected from my yard.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Cyprus workshop 2014 - registrations being accepted now
September 8-14, 2014. Cyprus.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Birds make great sky-circles. Madder red
“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.” (Rumi)
A dress comes when it's time for it to come. The dress with idea of circles came to my mind about 2 years ago when reading poetry by Rumi and imagining the whirling dervish. I just took a more feminine shape of the circle in my opinion.
nuno felt dress: wool, silk, flax, fresh water pearls
natural dyes: madder