Ruth Singer

Author: Ruth Singer

  • Selvedge Fair

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    The fantastic Selvedge Winter Fair is coming up next week! I have visited the show a few times but this will be my first time exhibiting.  The fair is always amazing. Chelsea Old Town Hall is a stunning building and the main hall, side rooms and corridors are crammed with textile gorgeousness. There are designer-makers,…

  • On My Mother’s Knee

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    I’m exhibiting at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, in a show called On My Mother’s Knee, opening later this month. I’ve created a new series especially for this show called Tool Shed. I’ll also be showing these two aprons. The exhibition catalogue is available online. When I was approached for this show in February this year, I…

  • Ornamentum Regeneration Exhibition Launch

    Ornamentum Regeneration Exhibition Launch

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    Exhibition Launch! Please come along to see the work of Ornamentum 10 contemporary craft makers in my studio building including my new installation in the nooks and crannies of the building.

  • The Beauty of Stains

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    I’ve recently been invited put together a major solo exhibition at The National Centre for Craft & Design in late 2015. The exhibition theme is loosely around physical and emotional engagement with cloth, exploring tactility, memory and personal stories, mostly around old domestic textiles. The working title of the show is The Beauty of Stains. I’m interested…

  • Christmas Shopping at Makers’ Yard

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    Make it a handmade Christmas and come shopping at my studio building, Makers’ Yard, where you can buy from the other tenants in the studio building as well as me. I’ll have a lot of samples for sale (cushions, bags, scarves, brooches etc), as well as discounts on books, fabrics, sewing tools and gift vouchers for…

  • Natural Dye : Hypericum / St John’s Wort

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    One of the holy grail natural dyes seems to be St John’s Wort, capable of producing reds, pinks, yellows and greens from the same flowers. Investigating this, I deduce that this ideal plant is Hypericum Perforatum, which is a small plant, quite distinct from the hypericum shrubs that appear to be beloved of municipal planting…

  • 2014 textiles workshops

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    Just a brief outline of the new workshops to come in 2014, full details soon! Workshops 2014 All workshops are 10am-4pm on Saturdays at Ruth Singer Studio, Leicester. £55 each or book 3 for £150 Miniature Art Quilts. 25th January Shadow Embroidery. 23rd February Cut-surface quilting. 22nd March Family Stories. 26th April Handmade fabrics. 31st…

  • The Knitting & Stitching Show

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    The Knitting & Stitching Show  this week is the biggest show of the year for textile enthusiasts, artists and professionals. I’ll be there, on stand TG E14 which is the smaller hall, the Textile Gallery, right at the back, by the Roman Bar (I really wish there were Romans staffing it, but I suspect not).…

  • Natural Dye :: Buddleia

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    I’m delighted by this one. Buddleia or Butterfly bush, grows pretty much all over the place here. Living in a city, there’s lots of wasteland around, particularly on my walk into town, where this stuff loves to grow. All over the canal tow path, around the parks and in scraps of land. I personally love…

  • The Salon

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    I’m working on a completely new piece at the moment, for a pop-up gallery in Leicester called The Salon. EC Arts have been commissioned to fill the old salon with art by local and regional artists inspired by the local area, ideas of beauty and consumerism. With it being a salon, I chose to work…