Tag: repair
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 38 with Claire Morris-Wright
This week I’m talking to artist Claire Morris-Wright, an artist in neighbouring Northamptonshire, who I’ve known for a few years and always enjoy talking too. We talk about looking closely and thinking deeply, about slow processing of ideas and about sharing and connecting as a fundamental part of both our practices. Claire Morris-Wright is a…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 37 with Amy Twigger Holroyd
In this end of 2023 episode, I’m talking to Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design, and in her previous life was a knitwear designer and innovator. We go back quite a long way to my early days as a designer maker and the…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 36 with Bridget Harvey
Bridget is a maker and researcher who uses ideas around repair to reanimate discarded objects and to tell new stories about our relationship to everyday things. In this conversation we talk about where our interests in object histories and museums converge and about how sharing our research interests in various ways fuels our ongoing curiosity about…
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Antique textile repair
Alongside my own original creative work I occasionally get the pleasure of a repair job on an antique textile. I love being able to explore the insides, the seams, the reverse and the construction of the stitches. This is an ecclesiastical stole, still in active church use despite being about 100 years old. The silk…
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Darning and Mending
This October, Leicester Footpaths group are running a Green Festival Of Making and Mending and I am helping with the sewing aspects. During the Festival on 31st October 2015 I will be running a stall sharing ideas on how to do more complicated mends and revitalise your clothes and household textiles including replacing elastic and invisible…
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