Erica Spitzer Rasmussen makes books as well as mixed media pieces she calls garments. Her website lists workshops that she teaches. I must be a magnet for sewing ideas right now, because I immediately focused on this one:
Drawing in Stitches: Non-Traditional Embroidery
In this two day workshop, students learn to stabilize and embellish paper to create unique grounds for hand stitched imagery. Motifs and narratives are developed from such sources as clip art, handmade stamps and freehand drawings. Non-conventional threads, such as wire, dental floss and horse hair, are used in conjunction with floss and simple stitching techniques to create personalized and tactile compositions.
Here is her book “Talking in Circles.” Below that is one of her garment pieces that I found particularly effecting. See all her work here.
Below is “A Portrait of my Father”. Mixed media (abaca, flax, various plant fibers gathered from ancestral land, acrylics, cotton thread and bovine blood)
