Ruth Singer

Category: My work

  • Pinpebbles

    Pinpebbles

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    The first pieces from a new collection of Pinpebbles are now up for sale on madebyhandonline starting at £25 including postage. Pinpebbles are small, tactile, textile objects, perfect to hold and display and are inspired by historic pincushions, from an age when valuable handmade pins were essential for holding clothing together. This group of pin pebbles…

  • A Museum of Me

    A Museum of Me

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    My collections and selections will be on display in the window collection at National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford,  from 3rd May to 13th July 2014 When faced with the task of selecting some objects which define my inspiration, I was almost overwhelmed. For years the main source of my ideas has been museum…

  • Collaboration with Bethany Walker: work in progress

    Collaboration with Bethany Walker: work in progress

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    I’ve long been fascinated by Bethany’s combination of textiles and cement; the contrasting soft and hard materials, the transformation of cloth from malleable to solid objects and the potential her innovative techniques would hold for my kind of manipulated textiles. Last year I applied to a-n’s collaboration bursary to fund our travel and expenses to…

  • Family Stories

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    After my Grandad died (aged 96) in late 2012, I cleared out a huge amount of textiles from his house, along with masses of curios and generations of junk that he had kept. His second wife’s family ran a small laundry business, and it was the ex-laundry buildings where Grandad kept all sorts of interesting…

  • 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…

  • Colour

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    I’ve been asked to exhibit in a couple of exhibitions around the theme of colour this Spring. At first I was a little puzzled as most of my current work is fairly lacking in colour; whites, sepia, washed-out and faded colours. Somehow I had forgotten that I usually work in bright and vibrant colours. I…

  • Textile & Metal Jewellery; a collaboration with Alys Power

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    My collaboration collection with Alys Power is complete! I’ve enjoyed this partnership so much that I didn’t want to stop – we could have kept making things forever.  We were keen that the collection was not entirely wearable but still had some elements of jewellery about it. Some of the pieces are wearable (necklaces, pendants,…

  • Maidens’ Garlands

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    Jan & I installed our exhibition piece today. It has been a lot of work but I am delighted with how it looks in the gallery and how well Jan & I have combined our ideas. Jan installing her weaving Installing the petals stage 1 Petal growth growing.. Half way there… Complete! Synchronise opens on…

  • Fabric Manipulation, 150 Creative Sewing Techniques

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    My new book will be published in June 2013 by David & Charles

  • Collaboration with Jan Garside

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    I had a day working with Jan Garside today on our collaborative installation work for Synchronise, a Design Factory exhibition at NCCD which opens on 9th March and continues until 2nd June. Jan and I are working on a large groups of piece including her woven work, lots of petals that I am making out of…