Carl Baker -- Ontario -- CANADA

Carl submitted this great canvas zip bag decorated with postage and directions for use. Like a fairy tale magic bag the goods kept appearing as if magic. There are tissues, decorated papers, pastel work, letterpress card with a textile joke(!) and more. Enjoy the carousel of textures, shapes, and colors.

Thank you, Carl.

Lisa Iversen - Indiana -- USA

They have painted and sung
the women washing their hair,
and the plaits and strands in the sun,
and the golden combs
and the combs of elephant tusks
and the combs of buffalo horn and hoof.

The sun has been good to women,
drying their heads of hair
as they stooped and shook their shoulders
and framed their faces with copper
and framed their eyes with dusk or chestnut.

The rain has been good to women.
If the rain should forget,
if the rain left off for a year—
the heads of women would wither,
the copper, the dusk and chestnuts, go.

They have painted and sung
the women washing their hair—
reckon the sun and rain in, too.
 

- Carl Sandburg

Diane Keys -- Illinois -- USA

Fantastic tag from Diane. Collaged text, images, and fibers create a rich surface, and the take-out fortune indicates successful business! Hopefully that means a lot more beautiful textiles will show up on this blog! Thanks, Diane!

Paola Baldassini -- Milan -- ITALY

 A beautiful triptych of tactile design submitted by Paola. Thank you!

Tamara Wyndham -- New York -- USA

Patchwork for Lady Nuit

"O nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus;

that men speak not of thee as One but as None;

and let the speak not of thee at all,

since thou art continuous!

                                           --Liber AL 1:27

Claudio Grandinetti -- Cosenza -- Italy

From Claudio Grandinetti. "Tenso Nervo Sfibrature."

Beautiful photograph. Claudio has also included several mail art calls
  with his artwork; they'll be posted on Skybridge Studios, so take a look! 

Thanks, Claudio.

TizianaBaracchi -- Italy

Mail Art Ambassador from Venice Tiziana Baracchi has fit the Textile Mail Art Call into her datebook... with artistamps and another important message... Wind Energy! No substitute! Thank you to the Embassy, Tiziana Baracchi and Giancarlo Da Lio for their generous submission to the call and to Skybridge Studios and Lisa Iversen.
Thank you!

Achille de Moeweald -- Fleury -- France

 

Achille de Moewald sent this sensuous card, rich warm colors. The fabric pattern is overprinted on the card which adds an element of mystery and romance. Thank you Achille.

Diane Keys -- Illinois -- USA

A warm and cosy January greeting from a mail art friend. 

It is cotton yarn and the letters are a cotton/poly blend. 

Here is also the back of the card, made from recycled cracker box:

Roland Halbritter -- Neudlingen -- Germany

Roland has submitted a diptych to the gallery, and it's a beauty! Men and Women united by fabric! Textiles bringing the world together through fashion. Thank you Roland, and I'll be sending correspondence to Bismarck, too.
There's a link at the right to Roland's mail art call, please check it out and share your art!

Katerina Nikoltsou -- Thessaloniki -- GR

Katerina Nikoltsou          Leopard in the Red          2010

 Beautiful, tactile, and playful card from my Chicagoan friend in Greece, Katerina Nikoltsou!

Michel Della Vedova -- Limoges -- FR

Dewi -- Toronto -- Ontario -- CA

Jen Staggs -- Dallas, Texas -- USA

Jen Staggs,