Colorful Threads: Textile Art by Ruta Naujalyte

Ruta Naujalyte is a textile artist based in Oslo, Norway who creates intricate crocheted sculptures that are sometimes combined with a macabre sensibility. Her work is characterized by its colorful and detailed use of flowers, plants, and birds as metaphors for her feelings and expressions.

“Colour combinations are essential in my work. I do not use sketches or patterns but rather create arranged thread combinations.”

“First I create miniature textile art pieces and then I transform them into either jewellery, art objects, miniature textile compositions or digital textile prints.

Shapes evolve organically; impression of incompleteness is significant. Scattered thread brings liveliness to the object – you want to tie them around your fingers, you want to brush them, twist them, pull them, you want to tame them and make your own. It adds presence and brings awareness of the here and now. I have no purpose in replicating nature, reproducing hyper realistically, I am just creating new species. My work has a macabre aspect to it – It emphasises the fragility of beauty.”

— Ruta Naujalyte

For more thread artworks, visit Ruta’s website or follow her on Instagram.

More textile art via Behance