Tag: textiles
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Rethink your Mind
I’m pleased to have a new piece of work selected for the ReThinkYourMind Yellow Book project. My piece Ash Map will be included in the new book for 2017 which will be launched this week after an awards reception at the House of Lords last week, although I was at the Contemporary Craft Festival so…
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Exploring quilt history
As I develop new work for my Fragments exhibition in the summer, I am investigating and exploring a lot of old quilts. I am continuing to explore my photographs and notes from the research visit to the Quilt Association’s collections in February and creating new technique ideas based on the structures, designs and history of…
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Antique Textile Inspiration course
In June I will be running an exciting new 4-day course for West Dean College. In this course I will be sharing my own way of working taking inspiration from antique textiles and creating sketchbooks and samplers to develop into new textile pieces. Find out more about West Dean from my previous blog posts. My…
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Trapunto project in Today’s Quilter
A trapunto wall panel project I designed for Today’s Quilter is now published in Issue Twenty. Trapunto or stuffed / corded quilting is semi-forgotten technique these days and it’s my mission to bring it back to life with new contemporary designs. I have been researching and practicing trapunto for about 10 years, inspired by…
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Fabric Manipulation course at West Dean College
I’m teaching a Fabric Manipulation long weekend workshop at West Dean College 16-19 March 2017. If you love texture and structure in textiles this is a perfect course for you to get really absorbed into exciting techniques and develop your own style with three days of teaching with loads of studio time and inspiration. Over the weekend…
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Threads Open Textiles exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre
Two pieces from my Narrative Threads exhibition, Criminal Quilts Patchwork and Memorial Pincushions Project, are being shown in Threads Contemporary Textiles Open in Salisbury Arts Centre 1st October – 12th November 2016.
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Threads Contemporary Textiles Open Exhibition, Salisbury
Two pieces from my Narrative Threads exhibition, Criminal Quilts Patchwork and Memorial Pincushions Project, will be shown in Threads Contemporary Textiles Open in Salisbury Arts Centre 1st October – 12th November 2016.
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Melbourne & Wirksworth Festivals
I am taking my precious collection of objects on tour! Over two weekends in September, I will be showing and selling a growing collection of precious objects in private homes in the two Derbyshire towns of Melbourne and Wirksworth. Wirksworth 10th & 11th September 10am-5pm at 6 Cromford Road. £7 per person for trail guide which gives entry to…
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Precious Objects exhibition
My next exhibition is a small group exhibition with local makers group Ornamentum. We have all created new work based on the concept of Precious Objects; either inspiring objects or precious materials we love. I will be showing a new collection of found, damaged or every day objects transformed into precious pieces, with personal, historical…
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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.
Ruth Singer 