Category: textiles
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Connected Threads community textile project
The first event in the Mary Linwood project took place at The Big Textile Show in Leicester last weekend. Remembering Mary Linwoodand generations of unknown stitchers A community textile project in celebration of Mary Linwood,Leicester’s forgotten 18th century embroidery celebrity! – In these workshops we are using wool threads to make cords toconstruct into a…
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Mary Linwood and Me
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Behind the scenes for the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to make an exciting project happen. I’ve wanted to share the story of embroiderer Mary Linwood for even longer than that. I’m finally making it happen. Over the next year I am putting together an exhibition of Mary Linwood’s embroidery from Leicester Museums…
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Front Garden Fragments
At the moment I’ve got a new work on display in my Land Shapes exhibition, including a group of pieces exploring the loss of front gardens from our urban landscape. Land Shapes also includes new work about front gardens by Mandeep Dhadialla, a project with Karen Logan and other land-based work by me, made during…
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Anne Whitmore’s quilt Chastleton House
Earlier this week I went on a textile tour of Chastleton House. I’ve written a lot in my journal about this experience in one of my favourite places, and the makers of these amazing stitched pieces. Thinking about the motivations and experiences of textile makers of the past is pertinent to a new project I’ve…
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Hidden Histories online talk for Embroiderers Guild
On Thursday 9th November I’m giving a talk about my work for the UK Embroiderers Guild. Ruth Singer’s work is all about illuminating stories and histories that we might not otherwise notice, from Victorian women criminals to personal and emotional stories of loss, via museum collections and nature connection. Ruth loves sharing these stories through…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 29 with Kate Unwin
Making Meaning podcast by Ruth Singer with Kate Unwin
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Leicester Textiles Festival
I’m pleased to be part of this new event in the city this month with two pieces in the Textiles Open 16-24th September. The exhibition is mainly at StudionAme in Leicester although my work may be in another venue. Full details and opening times doesn’t seem to be available yet but check the website and…
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Sharing Worn Stories
This weekend is re/action festival in Leicester city centre, where you can see our recent community project artwork, Worn Stories. Over the last few months, me and Mandeep Dhadialla have been working with a group of lovely people who are from sanctuary-seeking backgrounds and are supported by the Red Cross in Leicester. The completed art…
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Textile Traces Workshop
Over the weekend I ran my first in-person workshop in my garden studio! It’s was a bit of a squeeze with the exhibition on at the same time and lots of materials but we had a great time. The workshop was a chance to try some of the techniques I used for recording family textiles…
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Cultures of Care online talk & workshop
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I’ve had such a lot of interest over the last couple of months about my new Cultures of Care project – it’s been really heartwarming to hear from people about how this subject resonates. There’s a lot going on with the project already including a community project artist residency, supported spaces in my Maker Membership…
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