Tag: Textile art
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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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Art Textiles course at West Dean College
Ruth Singer is teaching Art Textiles: making cloth with meaning at West Dean College 30th May – 2nd June 2016.
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Old Textiles at October’s Sew Sociable
This month’s Sew Sociable will be all about old textiles. I’ll be giving a talk about my love of antique textiles, about museum collections, about my own collection of textiles and how I take inspiration from them to create my own textile art. Anyone coming to the event is enthusiastically encouraged to bring along their own…
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Creative Twinning Showcase
I took part a showcase event with Creative Twinning last week in Nottingham Contemporary. I put together a display of new and older work forming a new collection called Polonaise which includes some smaller pieces alongside the larger scale work like the quilt currently in the window at Designer Forum (photos below). I was quite pleased with…
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