Visit Artistic Artifacts!
Our Store Hours are:
- Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The City of Alexandria and the Alexandria Health Department urges Alexandria residents, businesses and visitors to wear a mask in public indoor spaces, whether vaccinated or not. Wearing a mask protects yourself, your family and your community from the current surge of the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant.
Artistic Artifacts is your source for the latest “Creative Finds for Creative Minds.” An authorized BERNINA USA dealer, Artistic Artifacts is also the location of a WonderFil™ Threads Boutique. We are known for our full range of fiber and mixed media products, including:
- A wide range of fabrics including a full selection of M&S Textiles Australian Aboriginal fabrics, Modern Cottons, our own Batik Tambal Exclusive Batiks, African designs, and so much more
- Batik Panels from a variety of Indonesian batik artists, each individually hand drawn and hand painted
- Wooden printing blocks, hand carved in India, for fabric and paper designs
- Our own line of Artistic Artifacts Fluid Textile Paint for fiber and mixed media work as well as other paints, mediums and tools.
- Tjaps — both traditional and new designs of the handmade copper tools used by batik artists
- Painter’s Threads, handpainted and space dyed textile materials created from silk, cotton, wool, rayon and metallics (formerly known as Tentakulum).
In addition, we offer a large range of art supplies; vintage fabric, trims and ephemera. No matter your medium, you’ll find products and techniques to use in sewing, and a full range of fiber arts and mixed media. Shop for yourself, or set up an Artistic Artifacts wish list so your friends and family can shop for you — we also have gift suggestions for your favorite Creative Minds, including gift certificates!
More About Us
Artistic Artifacts has participated in Quilters Trek (formerly Row by Row) and were a stop on the 2019 Quilter’s Quest Shop Hop featuring shops throughout Virginia and Maryland.
We are located located 4750 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA. Learn more about visiting Artistic Artifacts including complete directions, nearby accommodations and more.
- Contact Us
- Judy Gula is the owner and Chief Creative Mind behind Artistic Artifacts. Read her bio and schedule one of her lectures and/or workshops for your for your quilt guilds or art group!
- Judy’s Altered Minds, affectionately known as JAMs for short, is a free altered art group open to all who are interested
- Artistic Artifacts was one of 10 shops featured in Quilt Sampler® Spring/Summer 2018 — several magazine-exclusive Batik Panel Quilt kits remain to complete included project.
- Read about our previous participation in Quilters Trek (formerly known as The Row by Row Experience).
- View our online store’s Terms & Conditions
Keep up to date on our current activities by subscribing to our weekly e-newsletter and following Judy’s Blog. View our calendar for up to date information and our events page to learn more about the national quilt shows and art events, including information about Art & Soul creative retreats, that Artistic Artistic travels to.
A Look at Artistic Artifacts
Artistic Artifacts filmed owner in August 2021 Judy Gula and we’re inviting everyone to pay us a virtual video visit by watching her 10 minute tour of our Alexandria, VA store! Judy shows off some of the many Creative Finds for Creative Minds that are stocked for in-person shopping as well as secure online ordering](https://www.artisticartifacts.com/SFNT.html. We are thankful for the lovely compliments we’ve already received. So many have mentioned that they wished they lived close enough to us to visit, and while we can’t control geography, we hope this video gives you an idea of how we can support your fiber and mixed media needs!
Several years ago we welcomed Great Day Washington, a local morning television program to the shop. Although much has changed since then, this is still a fun look at Artistic Artifacts as you watch video of the four different demonstration segments — surface design (block, mono- and Thermofax printing), paper piecing quilt blocks, mixed media and upcycling techniques, and hand-stitching batik panels — that were produced live that morning by host Meaghan Mooney. Visit the Artistic Artifacts blog to view and learn more »