Australian Homespun

Selvedge DESIGNER EDGE

With bright-blue tones, intricate embroidered details and sweet expressions, Jill Ffrench’s splendid fairywrens live up to their name. Along with robins, magpies, galahs and honeyeaters, they are just a few of the birds in Jill’s flock of textile sculptures, and each one is beautifully crafted and full of personality.

Living close to the Mountain Ash forests in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, textile artist

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