hand crafted clothing

It all began with Robbie, my son, who is my main motivation and who inspired me to do this. During my pregnancy I started making his clothes, because I wanted to create a colourful, happy and playful world for him. This evolved into creating my autonomous textile art works, some of which are made especially for children. Soon he grew out of his clothes and I had to make new ones.

It often happened that I would select a fabric for a textile painting, but it ended up as a pair of trousers for him. I wanted to continue making clothes, but I found I didn't have time for that anymore, now that I was making my textile art works. So I decided to make children's clothing a part of my work. This is how the first series of spencers came about: they’re actually small textile paintings in a sweater instead of on a canvas. Indeed, I would encourage the new owner to hang the garment on the wall when it is not being worn.

The materials I use are consciously chosen, in order not to burden the environment any further. The fabrics I use come from the remains of my textile paintings or from carefully selected second-hand garments, made from natural materials. Each spencer is therefore one-of-a-kind and handmade by me.




all pictures of Luna and Robbie by 
© Julie Scheurweghs