Varvara

Series

Painting Waste | Textile Stories

Upcycled textile-waste paintings — stitched remnants layered into stories of memory, place, and material.

Aoi — abstract textile painting of stitched, upcycled jacquard remnants in green, orange, blue and cream, in a dark frame

Aoi

Upcycled jacquard textile waste, machine stitching, spray paint; repurposed maple frame · 2026

It's not waste unless you waste it — a gilded vintage frame holding a hand-drawn house painting, layered with green and dark tulle weaving and a neon-sprayed corner
Reserved

It's not waste unless you waste it

Reclaimed vintage frame (unknown origin); reused canvas with a painting of a house in nature signed "Shirley, 98"; experimental weaving with fabric-scrap waste from Fuhr Co. production (Sew Sew Good Show 1.0, Canada); yarn leftovers from student projects donated by the textile & weaving lab of Aalto University (Finland); plastic thread reused from the vintage painting’s hanging system; neon construction spray paint — Varvara’s artist mark · 2025

Yuri — an abstract textile painting of layered blue, green and orange woven jacquard remnants under dense sashiko stitching, in a light oak frame
Private collection

Yuri

Upcycled machine-woven jacquard leftovers from Yuri Himuro Textiles (Tokyo, Japan); vintage threads from La Manufacture (Lille, France); yarns from Liudmila Norsoyan; backing of reclaimed textiles from Our Social Fabric (Vancouver, Canada); hand stitching, spray paint, acrylic paint; frame of Canadian red oak by Rustic Burl & Co. (Ontario, Canada) · 2025