Ruth Singer

Tag: tools

  • Embellished sewing tools

    Embellished sewing tools

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    I’ve recently completed a small series of works for sale with the lovely Beyond Measure shop. I don’t make a lot of things for retail so these are pretty special. The darning cards are £36.50 and you can find them here. This scissors start at £49 and you can find them here. Beyond Measure also…

  • Precious Objects

    Precious Objects

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    I’ve got some new work for sale on Made by Hand including embroideries of my grandad’s gardening tools as well as a saw, a spoon and a couple of lovely plastering trowels. Prices start at just £41. Other pieces from this collection can also be purchased from my solo exhibition Textile Traces in Cwmbran, South…

  • Precious Objects at Lustre 2017

    Precious Objects at Lustre 2017

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    Lustre is a fantastic selling show taking place at Nottingham University over the weekend of 4th-5th November. I will be there with a shed full of tools and remade treasures from my Precious Objects collection. Lustre is open 10am-5pm.     SaveSave

  • Contemporary Craft Festival preparations

    Contemporary Craft Festival preparations

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    The Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey, Devon opens in just over a week. I have been flat out making enough stock to make my stand look convincing, as this is the first show I have done with this work. Until a couple of weeks ago I had less than 10 pieces. Now I’ve got….…

  • Melbourne & Wirksworth Festivals

    Melbourne & Wirksworth Festivals

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    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…

  • What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston

    What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston

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    This week I finally got to see my work Tool Shed on exhibition at Snibston, a museum a few miles away from me. Apparently this work inspired the whole exhibition project, which is really nice to know. My work is exhibited in a purpose-built shed, inside the giant museum shed-style building. It’s great that my dad was…

  • Travelling Tool Shed

    Travelling Tool Shed

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    Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…

  • Shadow embroidery

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    I’ve been working on a new style of work using negative space and dense stitching.   The piece on the left, Grandad’s Tool Shed, is part of a new body of work for an exhibition at Llantarnam Grange later this year. The piece on the right uses Jan’s garlands as the design detail, part of the collaboration…