Tilly Rose

I am a creative mixed-media textile artist and designer with a passion for working with cloth & thread, doodling with inks, journalling and eco-dyeing. Each piece always tells its own story and is filled with a symphony of delights relating to a link to our past, perhaps a way of showcasing a moment in time, or it can simply be a collage of forgotten treasures and everyday found objects. I love to concentrate on textures, layering of fabrics, adding surface stitching, embellishing with ephmera, drawing and shading with embroidery silks using a variety of traditional sewing skills with a few mixed media techniques thrown in for good measure. I design and make, using the cloth as my foundation and leaving the threads to tell the rest of the tale... Slow stitching particularly makes my little 'ol Fen heart sing... taking time out to 'simply be' with any design is so therapeutic and calms my meandering creative soul. I feel very connected to Mother Earth and use her inspirations in all of my designs. I love to dabble with other nature crafts, such as weaving alongside my stitching designs and incorporate found treasures whenever I can into my textile collages.