Category: Ruth Singer
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Material Histories, Making in the Home with Deborah McGuire: Making Meaning Episode 68
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire. In this episode we are talking about what it means to work from the home, to work alongside domestic life and how that worked for women makers in the past. We both share our very different experiences of home /…
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Tangled: Textile Stories of Care & Connection Making Meaning Episode 67
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In August I launched my new self-published book Tangled. It’s been a long journey from idea in 2018 to finally having the books in my hands in 2026. In this episode I’ll read extracts from the book, explain how it came about and respond to some questions asked in my online and in-person book launches…
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Maker Membership Free Taster Session
A free online session to find out about my Maker Membership group and see if it’s right for you. Monday 5th October 6pm Maker Membership is for all makers who want to be inspired, creative, imaginative and make work with meaning. It includes: Maker Membership is a place to learn from me about how I work…
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Hand & Heart textile days
A new series of events for textile folk in and around Loughborough Hand & Heart is my new project exploring sense of touch, textiles and sewing and I would like to invite you to join me for the first events in September and October. Do you love textiles & sewing? We invite you to join…
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Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles: Making Meaning Episode 66
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire. In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging conversation starting with what we look for in quilt shows but covers far more than that. We talk about the power of connecting through making, about showing and sharing textile works and…
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Tangled: Textile Stories of Care & Connection is out now
Celebrating my new book On Saturday I hosted a really lovely launch event for my book at the beautiful community garden where I volunteer. It made the perfect setting for an exhibition of my work from the book (and a few other pieces that aren’t in the book) and space for tea and scones with…
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Textile Book Group Autumn-Winter 2026
Four more book group sessions to take us through to the end of the year I’ve now hosted 12 months of Textile Book Group and we’ve read 11 books (with a break earlier this summer). The next monthly sessions are now open for bookings. Textile Book Group is on zoom, on a Monday evening at…
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21 Years of Ruth Singer, artist and writer. Making Meaning Episode 65
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This month, July 2026 marks 21 years since I left a very nice, well-paid job in the museum sector (at the V&A no less) and set off on this journey of second-career self-employment. It’s been varied to say the least and full of successes and failures, risks and rewards. In this new podcast episode I…
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Family Stories
How I use my own and others’ family histories and and objects in my work Pieces from Tool Shed, my grandad’s tools, stitched onto his handkerchiefs. Family histories, memorials, personal collections and individual stories have been part of my practice for a long time, since I first worked with my grandad’s tools and handkerchiefs in…
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Where Do I Get My Ideas From? Making Meaning Episode 64
I have been asked about my ideas and where they come from more than anything else in my 21 year career (although “How long did it take to make?” must be a close second). It’s really hard for me to define where each idea came from but I’ve given it a go in this podcast.…