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This winter, don’t hide your sense of artful style under boxy sweaters and lifeless scarves. Today’s best fiber artists create warm and wonderful apparel in a range of colors and unique designs. From fleece and silk to cotton and wool, you’ll find the perfect winter wearable in a range of styles and prices at Artful Home.
"Sunset Rose Scarf" by Jenne Giles
Combining painterly color, sculptural form, ancient craft techniques, and poetry with fashion, Jenne Giles’s "Sunset Rose Scarf" is a true work of wearable art. It’s made with a wet-felting technique referred to as nuno, in which wool has been felted through a lighter woven material, in this case silk chiffon. This technique allows the wool to be more expressive, creating form and character in combination with the silk, giving it drape and movement.
Price: $230
"Calla Lily Ruana" by Giselle Shepatin
An innovator in the world of textiles, Shepatin creates "daredevil couture" from fabrics she finds on every corner of the earth, and often incorporates textiles from past collections into her newest designs. She reinterprets, reassembles, and cultivates her resources to create clothing that makes the wearer feel the spontaneous energy through the cloth. Her fanciful "Calla Lily Ruana" is created from sculpturally cut velvet and is embellished with silk and handmade embroidered details. Also available in black.
Price: $390
"Arch Jacket" by Latifa Medjdoub
Latifa Medjdoub’s one-of-a-kind and limited-edition wearable pieces combine knitting, weaving, dying, and felting. Educated as a textile designer in Roubaix, France, and experienced as a designer of costumes for both the operas of Europe and Parisian haute couture, Medjdoub has both a strong technical grounding and refined artistic sensibility. Her hand-knit and felted merino wool "Arch Jacket" features a unique sculptural form and unexpected shape, and is accompanied by a complementary bronze pin. Also available in blue or charcoal.
Price: $770
"Stole" by Sonya Mackintosh
Comfortable and easy to wear, Sonya Mackintosh’s "Stole" is created with a colored yarn against black yarn, giving it the appearance of tweed. It’s the perfect piece for layering over casual attire to counter chilly winter drafts. A native of London, England, Mackintosh holds a B.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. Inspired by the textures, colors, and patterns in nature, she creates beautiful scarves by manipulating traditional knitting looms in innovative ways. Her skill and creativity have garnered her acceptance to the American Craft Council, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft, and Artrider shows.
Price: $300
"Bark Scarf" by Anke Fox & Lesley Armstrong
Using a vintage loom once brought from the Hebridean Islands of Scotland, Anke Fox and Lesley Armstrong weave sensuous fabrics to create a contemporary line of scarves, shawls, and apparel with unusual textures and lacey effects. Each piece is felted, yet is so light and downy to the touch, the resulting wraps and jackets are luxurious, stylish, and cozy. Their "Bark Scarf" is made from a silky alpaca yarn, and features a surface technique developed by the Armstrong Fox studio, which lends the piece a dimensional quality.
Price: $150
"Universe Coat" by Lynn Mizono
Mizono creates daywear and outerwear that can be worn in multiple ways to expand your wardrobe options. Her unique designs flatter bodies of all shapes and sizes, often featuring flowing, asymmetrical cuts and unusual necklines. Created from medium-weight fleece designed for sculptural impact and functional wear, her "Universe Coat" moves easily with the body and features two pockets. Versatile and comfortable, it’s also available in chocolate or black.
Price: $330
We’re just getting warmed up. View our entire collection of women’s apparel for winter, and beyond.
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