Josie L Roebuck

Studio notebook

Fabric, stitch and pigment, made approachable

Hands-on textile and mixed-media guides from a working table — how materials behave, how a technique actually goes, and what to try next in cloth, stitch, pigment and cut wood.

Contemporary visual art — mixed-media textile art, quilts, wood cutouts and painting — Josie L Roebuck
From the table

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Write-ups on cloth, stitch, pigment and wood — materials first, then the steps that got there.

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Textile Art26 articlesMixed Media Techniques14 articlesArt Materials Guides8 articlesStudio Practice2 articles
A note from the studio

Most of what you will read here starts as a problem on the table: cloth that will not sit flat, a pigment that dries three shades lighter, a wood cutout that wants one more coat.

Those get written up the way you would explain them to someone standing beside you — the materials, the order of work, the part that went wrong — so it can go straight back to your own bench. Nothing here assumes you went to art school.

A closer look at mixed-media textile work: fabric, stitching and pigment on a studio table
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What this notebook is for

Josie L Roebuck is a studio notebook for textile and mixed-media practice — fabric, stitch, pigment and wood — written for makers, students and teachers rather than gallery critics.

It starts with technique and materials, and widens with the work: studio habits, tools and the practical side of keeping a practice going.

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