Katerin Gómez is a craft lover and professional toy creator specialized in the needle felting technique. She graduated in drawing and illustration from La Escuela Nacional de Caricatura, the first illustration school in Colombia, where she worked for almost ten years as a designer, teacher, and events and exhibitions organizer. After returning to Bogotá, following a short but transformative experience at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland, she switched up her career and opted for her great childhood passion: creating characters.
Now she combines her illustration training and her desire to tell stories by designing and making unique dolls in her creative toy store, Juanamatú.
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Valentina Castillo is a graphic designer and embroiderer. She started to teach herself to embroider in 2015. At first, she embroidered her own animal illustrations, as these little critters had always been her main source of inspiration, and later began to take her use of embroidery as a form of expression further.
After the death of her dog, she decided to portray pets through embroidery to immortalize and honor their memory. Since then, she has made more than 100 embroidered portraits of dogs, cats, hedgehogs, you name it! Her specialties within embroidery are needle painting and silk shading.
She also gives embroidery workshops at Revesderecho to teach people their own way of understanding embroidery. In 2018, she collaborated on Makikoart's "I love my dog embroidery" book, where she embroidered more than 40 different breeds of dog.
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Claire Garland is a knitting pattern designer with over 20 years of experience. She’s been making things her whole life, experimenting with embroidery, crochet, illustration, tapestry, and more, but knitting has always been her preferred medium. Her knitting career began with the creation of dolls, which she created along with their clothes, accessories, and patterns. Claire later went on to create realistic knitted animals using self-taught shaping techniques.
She sells her creations via Etsy and is passionate about photography, capturing them in real-life situations, and sharing them with over 120K followers on Instagram. She has also written and published several books, including Magical Woodland Knits.
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Santiago Celio Cioli is a designer and textile artist from Montevideo, Uruguay. Although he earned his degree in industrial design at the Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño, and has since worked in many design and artistic fields, his passion is handmade embroidery.
For the past few years, Santo has been living in Berlin, where he currently works as an embroidery artist. His work ranges from portraits of pets, people, memories, and even imaginary creatures. Apart from taking commissions, he also hosts embroidery workshops for beginners.
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Paulo Rezende is a web designer from Rio de Janeiro who found both a hobby and a form of therapy in free embroidery. Since 2018, this handcraft has also been his profession with a large number of orders for personalized pieces coming his way.
His work was first discovered through his Monsterbox profile on Instagram, where he continues to gather followers, publish his projects, and share embroidery tips. His hand-made pieces full of charming realism can be found in many homes both across Brazil and internationally.
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