Exploring Thread Arts and the art of Making with Danielle Clough Blog

What are your thoughts when you are able to hear "thread art" and "embroidery"?

Your mind may conjure up thoughts of embroidery hoops, trips to the craft store for a spin through the colorful bags of thread. Perhaps you have a friend close and dear to you who established an embroidery business as just a pastime.

Meet Danielle Clough

Danielle Clough is a multidisciplinary artist with a creative zeal ranging including thread arts, photography in addition to design, and more. Growing up in Cape Town, she studied graphic design and direction in the field of art and design before pursuing the art that is tactile and visual in her career. Following a brief time of success creating visuals for live events for such groups as The Allah Lahs, Black Sun Empire, and more the artist turned her focus towards digital design and "thing making."

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However you've come to know Danielle Clough, her work is powerful. There are to enlist her 200,000 Instagram users to see her latest creations such as hummingbird-themed images, to the perfect rendition of Cher from Clueless (on plaid naturally!).

What does it mean to be Thread Arts?

Simply put, it is everything you could create with thread. Consider traditional thread painting, embroidery thread art, or even crochet. Also, it could be sketch of an embroidery machine. All of these media employ the same tools that are essential to all: needles, thread and the occasional surface regardless the type of piece, whether it's an ordinary Hoop or an unconventional multimedia piece.

The most thrilling aspects of thread art as Danielle thinks that the potential of this art are endless. If there's those who are creative and eager to improve or learn and explore, we'll continue to see increasing creative outputs made from threads, needle, and a spirited artist. With such a limited set of instruments and an abundance of choices to select from, the field of thread arts is the ideal career choice for creative experts and novices alike. The thread arts can help you uplevel or simply enjoy a moment to be at the present time.

"Just the act of creating it can be so soothing, and it's so present that, even if you create items that go to the shoebox at the bottom, the time and effort you put into the item will prove valuable." Danielle Clough

How Crafting Became Creative Freedom

"There's the power one can achieve when they've got a strong attention span and can focus on your life." Danielle notes.

The key to unlocking this ability is the simple but powerful craft of staying in the moment with crafting while keeping the background noise. This is also a skill that's simpler to master as you begin to think of yourself as a skilled craftsperson.

"The crafter's title grants you just infinite possibilities to make. If it's crochet, knitting or decoupage the process can be described as a method of creating. When we are making as a craftsperson or a creator where we can discover the most, and are the ones who can reflect on our own."

Eliminating the pressure of creativity

If you're thinking of starting a craft, Danielle has just the advice you require. Creative individuals often have a hard time hard to make art and stay focussed, and also posting their work for the rest of the world. It doesn't matter whether it's Instagram or TikTok or sharing it as an element of your portfolio. Making something for publication or sharing isn't simple. It is better to Danielle suggests that you simply make your own.

"We put ourselves under lots of pressure to create and share , produce and then give. We'reconstantly looking for confirmation. So everything we create has this goal of putting it out to the world. When we return to the essence of why we design and make items for ourselves that helps to rekindle that spark you were experiencing before. It is possible that you will see the flame will increase."

The concept doesn't have to be a huge artwork - it could be as simple as writing on your paper the vision for your artwork. This is a crucial step to take toward unleashing your creativity.

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