Time for the letter R!

After all the busy activity of last week end, I hope readers have a little time out to this weekend to browse online, as it is time for the letter R. 

I know I mention it each time but to be listed, I choose blogs that stay on topic at least 80% of the time, are written by textile practitioners and designers who do such things as quilt, stitch, dye, sew, embellish fabric, and bead. Or are kept by people who are interested in art, design or paper related crafts, such as bookbinding, altered books, visual journals or studio journals. By 80% of the time I mean that when I visit, 8 in 10 posts are on topic. If a blog has not been updated in the last 6-8 weeks or so I don’t include it as I think readers enjoy current and active blogs.

I often find blogs that are not in English and translate them via Google Translate 

For the rest of the alphabet here are the letters A , B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q and now I would like to present the letter R 

Racaire's Embroidery and Needlework  Racaire is an historical costumer, calligrapher and steadily works on projects that are inspired by historical embroidery. 

Rag and Bone  blog covers books, book art, bookbinding, paper craft, paper making, box making, journaling, design, print and patterns, textiles, origami, and art events

Rag Rescue  is written by a craftworker and antique dealer covering a range of texile practices including recycling

Raggged Cloth Cafe  invites discussion on art theory, art history, craft, design, definitions and philosophy that relate to the textile arts. It has an irregular publishing pattern but I have kept it on my list because it is so good. 

Raggy Rat Catherine Owen is a contemporary soft toy maker, costumer and puppet maker. 

Randa Handmade Lace  is an interesting blog which covers this lace making technique from Tucumán, Argentina. Adriana also covers her other interests such as Cross stitch, knitting, crochet, lace making and patchwork.

Reading and Stitching in Il  Jenny is interested in needlework such as freestyle creative embroidery, cross stitch and knitting

Rebel Quilter  explores art quilts made of silk

Red 2 White  Monika is interested in contemporary textiles which include felting, embroidery and patchwork, fabric painting and batik. Also her side bar houses tutorials that many will find useful 

Red Red Day Covers works in progress of a contemporary textile artist

Red Thread Studio: Slow Cloth, New Cloth, Art Cloth  is written by Elaine Lipson. It is described as encompasing "global textile traditions and techniques, fabrics and fashions of the future that are organic, sustainable, functional and innovative, and textile art and artists."

Redwitch Stitch and Bitch  tracks quilting, embroidery projects, and cross stitching projects

Reflections of a Ramblin' Girl covers contemporary textiles, art quilts and mixed media 

Remakeables  Amy writes about her illustrations, prints on both fabrics and paper and her crafting interests

Renatos Veltinis/Renata Felt is the blog of a contemporary felter 

Resurrection Fern covers work in progress of some innovative contemporary embroidery

RevoluzZa is a contemporary craft blog which you can translate using google translate

Rian's Pages covers the work of an art quilter 

Ribbon Rose covers interests such as knitting, crazy quilting, embroidery and crafting 

Rittenhouse Needlepoint Stephen Janick regularly features instructions on how to work various canvas work stitches. The stitches are clearly described and photographed. Not only is there a ‘stitch of the week’ for readers but often small features on styles and techniques make interesting reading. 

River Bend Ranch Studio Patty Van Dorin is interested in mixed media, altered books, bookbinding, paper crafts and visual journal arts 

Ro Bruhn is a  fellow Aussie who is a graphic designer, makes jewellery, paints, creates mosaics, alters books, decorates paper and makes visual journals.

Robyn Fabsits is a contemporary craft and sewing blog

Robyne Melia is Bobby La  is a work in progress blog of projects that covers quilting, crazy quilting, paper arts, sewing embroidery and stitch related areas.

Roman Sock a contemporary take on crochet, soft toys and crafts 

Ronda's Creative Quilting  As the title siuggests Ronda writes about her quilts in progress

Roses on the Water Barbara is an avid crazy quilter who also loves silk ribbon embroidery, and is a writer and staff member for CQ Mag Online

Rough Around the Edges  Robin Olsen tracks her fiber interestes, experiments and inspiration and shares page spreads from her visual journal.

Roz Wound Up  Roz Stendahl creates some fantastic art journals. Her blog is really worth visiting. Make a cuppa and settle in to enjoy it. 

Ruth Rae is a textile artist who was trained to be a jeweler. Ruth’s pieces can be described as mixed media fabric work and art quilts. 

Comments

[Elizabeth]

Good morning, Sharon!

Here's one to add to R: Ruth O'Leary Textile Arts
http://rutholearytextileart.blogspot.com/
She's great.=)

BW, E=)

[aurora]

thanks for doing this Sharon--I always find some blogs that I love when you do this!!!

[Kaye]

What a great idea. I'm quite new to your blog and am slowly reading backwards through past posts. I like the documentation you do here.

[cat]

thnaks for including the raggy rat xxx

[Jill Krynicki]

Hi Sharon,

River Silks started a blog in May 2010 about all things silk ribbon. We’ll be posting timely news, sightings of our ribbon, inspirations, projects, and anything else ribbon-related we find of interest.

http://www.riversilks.madgrind.com/wordpress/

Thanks!
Jill Krynicki

[Racaire]

Thank you very much for mentioning my blog :)
*bighug*