Karen Tiede Studio

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Raleigh, NC  ·  Textile artist who makes fabric flowers, fabulous rugs, and lots of great printed products that put lasting colorful art in every room of your home.
Karen Tiede Studio
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Flowers
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Flowers / I had so much fun making the flowers for my own wedding, I didn't want to stop. Bouquets made from abandoned fashion, quilting, and upholstery fabrics. Indoor use only.
Dog Beds
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Dog Beds / Art for your dog, in the form of a bed. Three sizes; indoor (fleece) and outdoor (woven) fabrics. Digitally printed onto washable pillows. Zippered.
Rag Rugs, hand made in America
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Rag Rugs, hand made in America / Abandoned clothing takes on a new life. The rugs on this board have been created by hand from recycled t shirts and other old clothes. For more information, visit www.rugsfromrags.com. Good news bad news: the rugs are off the market, pending release of my next book.... (they're needed for the photography).
Meet the Team!
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Meet the Team!
Green
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Green / Green rugs, and flowers with lots of green, and all the other colors that go well with green, from lime to teal and in between. Why can't I get the really good teals on my monitor?
Blue
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Blue / Blue's a great color; unfortunately, it fades quickly. Good royals are rare in the #recycled stream. Home decor #blue sometimes works better when the blue is the accent.
Reds
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Reds / Red fabric is easy to find recycle stream; I'm always looking for new blends. Gwen Marston says red is a neutral. Everything goes with red, mostly.
Pink
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Pink / I had thought I could stash pink ideas in with reds and oranges, but it hasn't worked out. Board-in-progress.
Gold & Yellow
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Gold & Yellow / A study board for using gold and yellow in textile art.
What I need to hear today
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What I need to hear today / Quotations, posts, images, etc. about making art, getting important work done, and carrying on in the face of work that was better in my head. A: It's ALWAYS better in EVERYONE'S head. Plus a few pins about dogs, because my dog portrait board is more formal than funny.
Orange
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Orange / A little #orange goes a long way in the interiors market. Traditionally, orange is partnered with blue (UVa, Clemson); it can be much easier to live with when it's paired with other colors. BTW, many browns actually read as Orange, esp. hardwood floors.
Black and White
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Black and White / Studies in Black and White, with a trace of accents. Marston & Moran understand the value of B&W as a resting place in a sea of color. It's not much fun on its own.
Purple
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Purple / A study board for using the color purple in purple rugs, looking for the accent and contrasting colors that make rag rugs more interesting.
Brown
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Brown / Brown is only incidentally a neutral; it skews red and green, goes to tan, greige, khaki, and blends into grey. This is a study board for using the color brown in textile art. See the results of these studies in textiles at http://rugsfromrags.com/rugs/rugs-by-type/brown-rugs/.
Textile Art
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Textile Art
Real-life Inspiration
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Real-life Inspiration / Real places and people in my real life I visit when I need to recharge my creative well.
Shot o'color
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Shot o'color / All sorts of scenes, items, and images full of interesting color. Not always fashionable; often unexpected. Either colors you wouldn't automatically put together, or items in colors not traditionally used for those items. a. God loves color. b. God loves all the colors. c. God knows Winston Churchill would have come around about the browns in time. Maybe he has already.
Tools for Textile Artists
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Tools for Textile Artists / A selection of pins showing tools that are useful for artists who work in various forms of fiber. Not all fiber artists will need or use all of these tools. I use many of these tools in my own studio. #textile
Art
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Art / Art that dazzles me in its ideas and implementation.
Dog portraits
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Dog portraits / It has become clear that the most important "equipment" a good dog photographer needs is a pair of working knees. All the best dog portraiture is taken at the dog's eye level.
Spirals
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Spirals
Textiles as wall art
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Textiles as wall art / Some collectors use my rag rugs as wall art, both for the color and for their noise abatement properties. Textiles and #rugs on the wall absorb direct and reflected sound and increase acoustic privacy.
Hula Hoops and Hooping Art
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Hula Hoops and Hooping Art / I teach hula hooping to adults and will bring my pile o'hoops to your outdoor event in the Central & Eastern NC area for a reasonable fee. See more at www.karentiede.com. #hulahoop
Projects I will possibly make one day soon
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Projects I will possibly make one day soon / The projects on this board are ideas that strike me as do-able and fun, and mostly (ha!) useful, or at least, not a complete waste of energy and materials. I love yard art. I wonder if anyone's posted crown tires in Pinterest?
Projects I have already made
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Projects I have already made
Living the log cabin life
156 Pins
Living the log cabin life / Log homes suggest an certain slant on interior design, but it doesn't have to be Adirondack Camp. Rag rugs are a natural accessory for this style of decor. See more rugs at www.karentiedestudio.com
Peacocks and other brilliant birds
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Peacocks and other brilliant birds / I love the peacock image and anything iridescent; as pinning progressed, other birds needed a place to live and this board was a pretty good place.
Crowning Glories
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Crowning Glories / Crowns and tiaras, both "real" and "fake." (They're all real. Some are simply closer to affordable than others.)
Art Deco Style
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Art Deco Style
Marking time
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Marking time
Signs of my (maturing!) times
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Signs of my (maturing!) times / Most of what's on this board is either still used today, or still would be used today, if I could find it. I don't miss manual typewriters, though.
Doors
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Doors
Books I Talk About
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Books I Talk About / One more place to recommend books. These are books that keep coming up in conversation; not in any way all the books I read. (Plenty of reviews on Amazon, too.)
Great costumes from history
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Great costumes from history
Transferring...
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Transferring... / A board used to repin across accounts. Anything on here is temporary.
Shoes for an everyday life
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Shoes for an everyday life
Venn Diagrams
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Venn Diagrams / A tribute to Jessica Nagy, who creates Venn Diagrams and other sketches that help me to see and define the world differently. Wired Magazine often runs a few every month, too.
Want to know more about this
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Want to know more about this / This is a bookmark board with pins about some of my current research interests, including story telling and left-brain, right-brain differences and optimization.
Photography ideas
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Photography ideas / Examples of (mostly) product photography as inspiration for rug images.
How to
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How to
Next time I'm in Chicago
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Next time I'm in Chicago / Chicago is my favorite big city. I spent six months there in the mid 90s on business and came to love it. Couldn't live there; too gray, cold, and expensive. But a fine place to visit...
Bedrooms
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Bedrooms / Bedrooms I'd love to sleep, and wake up, in. Lush. Comfortable. Colorful.
Vernacular image
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Vernacular image / A collection of images that have worked their way into popular culture, as well as an excuse to stash some of the more interesting Sherlock pins.
Books nearby, and libraries
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Books nearby, and libraries / I love books. This board is a compendium of ways to store books, some of which are more eye-catching than practical. I once ran a personal ad that said, "If you don't own 2x your age in shelf-feet of books, you may not be comfortable in my home." I dated the guy who responded for four pretty good years.
I'd Remember This
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I'd Remember This / Memories
Projects someone else needs to make
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Projects someone else needs to make / For the most part, these pins are in the process of being suggested to someone else.
Buy Local - #BuyLocal - Shop Local - #ShopLocal
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Buy Local - #BuyLocal - Shop Local - #ShopLocal / This board is all about encouraging people to buy from Local Owned Businesses it was started on 12-7-2012 #buylocal #ShopLocal
Seascape (Textile)
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Seascape (Textile) / I saw several textiles called "Seascape" come through the pinflow and it made me wonder what other artists thought when they used that title. Time for a new colorway, for sure. We're all thinking the same thing. Mostly.
[inspire] reduce & reuse
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[inspire] reduce & reuse
Chalkware Lamps
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Chalkware Lamps / Found the first pair of chalkware lamps at an antique store in Beaufort, NC, one New Year's weekend. They are addicting... Found a pair of bullfighters in the Chatham County swap shed. Need work, will post.
Recycle & Repurpose
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Recycle & Repurpose / To join this board please go to my first board "Invitations & Messages" to sign up, thank you. There are millions of uses for what others call garbage take a peek...no spam! Ask before inviting people I was just spammed really bad! 12/12/12 *Stardust*
Eco-Friendly MARKETPLACE
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Eco-Friendly MARKETPLACE / A place to find all your eco-friendly gifts and decor! No more than 3 "new" pins a day, please. No DIY pins. Pinners, please do not invite anyone without my approval-if you do, you will be removed. This prevents spam. Thank you.
Dogs Our Furry Friends
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Dogs Our Furry Friends
Pussyhat Project
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Pussyhat Project / I knit a #pussyhat for myself, and started one for my sister and my niece, and offered to make some for my friends, and now I'm planning a dozen. Notes from the journey. See more at http://rugsfromrags.com/plan-c-pussyhats/
Knitting Fabric Rugs The Book
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Knitting Fabric Rugs The Book
TS Designs & other post-manufacturing creativity
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TS Designs & other post-manufacturing creativity / This board began with pictures from and about the TS Design business, making t shirts from organic cotton in the US, in Burlington, NC. More info at www.tsdesigns.com. When TSD changed their production process to eliminate a lot of the waste completely, I shifted the board to include other creative uses for post-factory leftovers.
Weaving Drafts
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Weaving Drafts
Jewelry Inspiration
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Jewelry Inspiration
Bohemian Home
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Bohemian Home / A collection of (mostly) colorful living spaces, with some pins about modern furniture that would be fun to live with. Bedrooms are on a different board.
Tassels
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Tassels
Shopify Merchant Community Board
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Shopify Merchant Community Board / Beautiful products from around the globe, curated by Shopify's 600K+ merchant community.
Pawsitively - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - Products
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Pawsitively - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - Products / GROUP BOARD: For Small Businesses This board is for businesses that are dog or cat related. All Etsy, EBay, Zazzle, CafePress etc. small online businesses are welcome! No identical repins please. No Spam. Definitely NO PORN. Help and promote items for other dog/cat businesses too. You may invite others. Follow the board to join and/or message me here or on Etsy at HappyDogHydrants. Let's make this the pawsitively BEST board!
Pawsitively 2 - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - ALL
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Pawsitively 2 - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - ALL / GROUP BOARD: All things Dog and Cat welcomed. Pin your favorite Dog or Cat pictures, information, and/or products by small businesses and individuals. NO DUPLICATES please, they will be deleted. Definitely NO PORN. Follow the board to join and/or message me here or on Etsy at HappyDogHydrants. You may invite other dog and cat lovers too. Let's make this the pawsitively BEST board too!!!
Mark Rothko
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Mark Rothko
Clothes to make
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Clothes to make
From my websites
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From my websites / Links to the latest posts on any of my websites--RugsFromRags.com, KarenTiede.com, KarenTiedeStudio.com, and Red-Tuxedo.com
On the Needles Now
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On the Needles Now
Shows
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Shows / Art fairs and shows where the rugs, flowers, and carvings have been or will be. Stop by sometime!
Gallery of Amazing Artists
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Gallery of Amazing Artists / A group of artists who live to create and create to live! This board is to support and inspire. Please be sure to comment on the images that move you! To join the group - comment on one of the images with your Pinterest name and we will get back to you soon!
Work in Process
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Work in Process