In each colorful issue, you'll enjoy meeting the artists and discovering new techniques. Each issue also includes fascinating interviews and portfolios, useful news and reviews, current exhibition listings, competitions to enter, and an education and travel directory. For thirty years, Fiberarts has been both inspiring and exciting.

Summer 2011 Issue 
The Summer 2011 issue focuses on the theme "Needle and Thread," with a special look at contemporary textile portraiture and an international array of art-quilt masters. Articles in this issue include the mysteriously optimistic inlaid-felt patchwork pieces and hooked rugs of Canadian artist Heather Goodchild; an intimate grouping of textile portraits rendered in lace, cross-stitch, quilt, and embroidery; the handstitched headlines and soft sculptures of Lauren DiCioccio; an international selection of recent works by art-quilt masters that explore light and shadow; and be sure to meet the winners of the 2011 Fiberarts Reader’s Choice Studio Contest! This issue also includes fiber works of a healing nature, from large-scale land-art installations to hand-dyed and hand-embroidered antique handkerchiefs, in our Emerging Artists Showcase; a review of American Textile Biennial Eight featuring eighty-eight tapestries from around the world; and stories of traditional textile-arts preservation and celebration from Laos and Southern China. Creative process articles include knitting with glass by Carol Milne; transforming 2-D textile designs into 3-D sculptures with Cameron Anne Mason; the intricate abstract embroideries of Bette Woolsey; and  a greener approach to dyeing with indigo by Barbara Shapiro.