Custom Applique Banners & Hanging Mobiles

For 30 years Artist Mettje Swift has been working closely with architects, interior designers & art consultants creating beautiful translucent fabric banner art for outdoor public places and interior architectural spaces.

Banner Art's clients include many downtown districts, schools & universities, government municipalities, hospitals & doctor's offices, recreation facilities, children's centers and commercial properties.

Our Applique Banners

Mettje sews original contemporary designs and vibrant colors into each artistic project. All works are custom-designed and sewn into beautiful works of art that represent community and corporate pride.

Her fabric banners enhance public environments and private spaces with hanging fabric art including:

• suspended fabric sculptures and street banners
• interior architectural atrium art and architectural banners, room dividers for interior design, kinetic sculptures and mobiles; tapestries and stage performance backdrops
• hanging mobile art and interior banners
• suspended banners and atrium banners
• architectural banners
  
• events banners for public buildings, corporate environments, and churches; any occasion can be featured in a special events banner!
• school pride banners, bannerscapes, logos and banner graphics
• light pole banners, lamp pole banners, and bannerscapes for main street beautification projects and historic districts, main street banners and downtown events banners
• lightweight fabric structures and canopies children's play shelters and soft sculpture animal costumes, and kids art
• workshops for kids: Mettje Swift creates exciting hand-on art workshops for children and teachers, play shelters and play houses and kid's animal costumes.
• Mettje collaborates closely with architects, art consultants, interior designers, facility and city managers and municipal services to find decorative banner and fabric solutions to beautify public and private spaces.

More about the technique: The banner art studio handcrafts and sews the designs by border applique, completing projects of all sizes. The fabric is light, translucent Solarmax nylon, made in the USA, and is treated for ultraviolet protection and is fire retardant for indoor use.

Mettje Swift has been designing and fabricating her fabric art since 1984. She has revitalized the classic art of banners by bringing universal symbols and color combinations together to represent people, spirit of place, corporate culture and human aspiration. About the artist.

Her clients are throughout the U.S., and internationally, and include governmental and cultural entities, public art and non-profit agencies, corporations, and private individuals, including architects. She sculpts aerial, kinetic art and balanced mobiles which hang in corporate headquarters, health fitness facilities, municipalities, schools and recreation centers. Hand sewn banners beautify the streets of towns and villages, as well as larger municipalities. List of customers and references.