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Renata Boudon

  • Fabric sculptor
  • Strasbourg, France
  • Master Artisan
Renata Boudon Fabric sculptor
Contact
French, Portuguese
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+33 626361078
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Touching hearts with retro brooches

  • • Renata likes to bring fabrics that have a history back to life
  • • She is inspired by foliage shaped by bad weather
  • • Upcycling has become a popular strand of her practice

Renata Boudon is specialised in the creation of brooches and hair jewels in sculpted fabrics. Since her teenage years she is drawn to the world of haute couture, handmade crafts, and unique and precious know-how. Over the years, while exercising her profession as a pattern maker, she refined and developed her technique from the different skills she encountered, such as the Japanese technique of somebana and botanical printing. For some of her pieces, the fabric she uses, she carries out the dyeing from foliage, flowers, and seeds that she picks in public parks. All of Renata's pieces are abstract compositions made up of stylised petals, hand-painted one by one and carefully lined with silk thread. They are then shaped, curved, and moulded by precise and delicate gestures.

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Works

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Flower brooch

This is a large format flower brooch in wild silk, hand-painted in golden yellow with petals edged in golden silk thread. Each petal is carefully sculpted by hand.

Photo: ©Renata de Barbosa
Butterfly brooch

This is a botanical print silk brooch made with silk that was dyed by Renata Boudon with seeds and leaves picked in public gardens. The result is a unique and delicate print in the colours of nature, sculpted in a shape reminiscent of a butterfly.

Photo: ©Renata de Barbosa
Upcycled brooch

This brooch was created from an old garment. The fabric has been refined and reworked to create petals edged with silk thread, sculpted one by one by hand, and assembled into an abstract composition forming a stylised bouquet.

Photo: ©Renata de Barbosa
Large flower brooch

This large format brooch is made of wild silk hand-painted in shades of fuchsia pink which gives it a shimmering effect. Each petal is edged with silk thread and then shaped, curved, sculpted by hand, and assembled into a bouquet composition.

Photo: ©Renata de Barbosa
Large butterfly brooch

This large format butterfly brooch is made with hand-painted natural silk in dazzling colours, cheerfully combining yellow and purple in a tie-dye style.

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