You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
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episode 5: Kate Tarling: “When you’re stitching, you’re stitching footsteps into that landscape.”
Bristol textile artist and mapmaker Kate Tarling talks freehand machine embroidering coastlines onto lampshades, her preference for silk paints (despite the hassle), color inspiration from her garden, and how she does most of her sketching in her head during dog walks. See her work at katetarlingtextiles.com
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- Dissolving embroidery substrate: print/sketch a pattern on it, stick it to the fabric, sew through, it disappears when you add water
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