Category: Projects
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What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston
This week I finally got to see my work Tool Shed on exhibition at Snibston, a museum a few miles away from me. Apparently this work inspired the whole exhibition project, which is really nice to know. My work is exhibited in a purpose-built shed, inside the giant museum shed-style building. It’s great that my dad was…
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Postcard from Chateau Dumas 1
I’m not long back from a glorious week teaching at Chateau Dumas. It is as wonderful as it looks. I’ve never had such a luxurious teaching experience! The Art of Textiles course covered masses of creative techniques over the course of 6 days and we started with my experimental and freestyle approach to natural dyes.…
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Travelling Tool Shed
Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…
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Maidens’ Garlands collaboration with Jan Garside
EDIT – In fact, this won’t be displayed. There was a miscommunication with the gallery & they didn’t install it properly. So I took it away again. I’ll put it up in the studio soon. My collaborative work with Jan Garside will be exhibited again this month.
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Petal Dye
Dyeing fabric with petals (and some leaves) has to be one of the easiest and most satisfying way of putting natural colour onto cloth. It is ridiculously simple & effective, particularly on silk. I first tried it last year, after reading about it online, seeing what Hannah Lamb was doing with plant bundle (and in India…
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Pinpebbles
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…
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Fabric Manipulation : Stitch & Slash
Would you believe that ripped jeans of the 1990s are simply harking back to the 16th century? For a brief period, it was the height of fashion to ‘pink’ or slash luxury fabrics to create pattern and to reveal yet another fancy fabric underneath. That’s where the term pinking shears comes from, although they appear somewhat later.…
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The Business of Embroidery ecourse
I’ve just started Mastered ecourse on the Business of Embroidery taught by the amazing Karen Nicol. I’ve been looking for a while for an ecourse to take as research towards developing my own ecourses and had been pondering one of the Mastered embroidery courses, though I knew they weren’t quite right for me. It has been…
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Design Factory Fellow
I’m delighted to announce that I have been invited to become a Fellow of Design Factory. “Over the years Design Factory has nurtured a strong network of selected designer/makers who continue to prove their commitment to Design Factory and British craft and design. They have grown in their practice and become leaders in their field…
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A Museum of Me
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…
Ruth Singer 