Femke van Gemert creates textile artworks from recycled fabrics. She uses discarded materials from sources like fashion designers, interior decorators, and consumers. By selecting fabrics by color, Femke is able to create tapestries, hangings, and installations without additional dyeing or bleaching. Femke's works showcase the beauty that can come from aged and worn textiles. She hopes to bring attention to textile waste and encourage reusing fabrics.

1. Femke van Gemert
textile works

2. Femke van Gemert
loves textile

3. love textile
Textile is our second skin, the only material we allow to touch us.
Textile/fashion industry is very labor-intensive and has a heavy impact on natural
resources like water and land, and the environment in general.
Textiles are produced in often hard labor conditions and is very polluting in the
process of bleaching, washing, dyeing and transportation all over the globe
Textile consumption is growing worldwide and the circulation of fashion and
textiles is getting faster and faster.
Therefore textile waste is increasing.
I think we should reconsider textile waste.

4. love textile
Textile is a lot more than just one garment or one pillow case. Because of the
labor intensity and the ecological footprint of textile materials Femke wants to
revaluate en re-use fabrics.

5. love imperfection
All Femke’s works show the beauty of imperfection and deterioration over time.
Decaying is a natural process and part of life. The ageing and wear of textiles gives
a surprising beauty to the material. Therefore Femke uses fabrics in all the states of
being, new and old.

6. textile works
Femke van Gemert creates hangings, tapestries, objects and installations made of
100 % recycled textiles. Waste, leftovers, worn and torn pieces, curtain samples,
all kinds of textiles that are left over after the intensive consumptionpattern in the
contemporary world. These discarded materials offer Femke the possibility to
show her opinions about the world and personal experiences in abstract works.

7. The textiles used by Femke come from various sources:
Fashion designerscutoffs interior decorators curtainsamples and upholstery
consumers fashion and bedlinen museums/collectors antiques
artists/designers all sorts of textiles textilelovers/crafts people collections of
small pieces

8. textile works
The discarded textiles are selected by color and
collected in boxes by Femke

9. Parts of the collected fabrics
selected by color in Femke’s atelier

10. textile works
Depending on the amount of fabrics a work in a certain color can be created.
No dyeing or bleaching is done.
Landscape, 2009

11. textile works
A selection in green toned textiles for a big tapestry. A great variation in structure and
surfaces creates a surprising tangibility.

12. A certain inspiration or longing decides the color range.
jungletocht in Thailand en Mexico

13. Femke works on self made looms in several, developed techniques

14. Deep Dense

16. A work on commission for a private residence.
Soft & Sweet

17. In commissioned works textiles of the client can be used
Rough sketch as the basic idea
Color is choosen with the customer

18. Bij opdrachten kunnen textielstukken van de klant zelf worden gebruikt
Stromingen

19. The result on the wall in the customers house.

20. A gift from the Amsterdam museum: antique pieces of lace

21. Washing, drying, ironing.

22. In various techniques and partly dip dyed.

23. Dreaming
installation

24. Dreaming in Istanbul Dreaming in Beijing

25. Dreaming in São Paulo

26. A piece of a used fishnet was given to me

27. The fisnet is braided and knotted with strips of fabric.

28. Labor intensive handwork

29. Landscape 1

30. Landscape II

31. Inspiration

32. Partly dyed to keep the original color visible

33. Floweristic

34. Site specific design: for a certain room Femke can
create a made to measure piece.

35. Some examples of site specific designs on commission

36. Femke van Gemert
www.femkevangemert.nl
Facebook: Femke van Gemert wallhangings wandkleden
Femke lives and works in Amsterdam and has various works in stock.
Erupted