Memorable Textile Artist – Jo Gallant
There have been some positive things about the last couple of years and some negative. One of the positive has been the use of Zoom to enable us to link […]
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Christmas lunch with Ros Liddington, Archivist from Wilton House, Salisbury
The weather outside was dreadful but inside Kennet Valley Hall there was a festive atmosphere. This was the first Christmas meeting of our new Textile Group and after a convivial
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Textile artist and author, Bobby Britnell from Moor Hall Studio
Bobby Britnell was the speaker for our November meeting on Zoom. She started her talk, My Creative Journey by telling us that she was desperate to leave school and her
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Sue Hobson – What is a Quilt?
Sue Hobson introduced her talk, What is a Quilt? by explaining that she came from a family of sewers but had followed a career in science. She explained that pre
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M A Katritzky – The Needlework Collaboration of Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick
We welcomed M A Katritzky, Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at The Open University, as the first speaker for our new group., Textiles &
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Suzy Wright – Exciting Textile Artist using colour, colour and more colour!
On Thursday 10th June we had a fabulous talk by Suzy Wright, an inspiring and colourful textile artist. She described growing up in Dorset and her early years at school
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Polly Woolstone – Fascinating Textile Artist, Cyclist and Traveller
For our May Zoom meeting 34 members of the Textile and Stitch Around Marlborough enjoyed a talk entitled “My journey with a sketchbook, camera & needle” by Polly Woolstone. Polly
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Emily Tull – exciting talk by textile artist extraordinaire
Emily Tull is a textile artist based in Kent. Her talk gave us a wonderful overview of her career, inspiration and process. Emily is obsessed with faces. Starting with what
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Jessica Grady – exciting embellishment textile artist – March 2021
Jessica Grady gave a wonderful talk from her home in Leeds to 35 of our members on Zoom. She started her talk by explaining she chose to go to university
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Amazing talk by Andrea Cryer, “Drawing with Thread” – February 2021
Local textile artist, Andrea Cryer spoke to 37 of our members on Zoom this week. She is well known for drawing with needle and thread and this interest goes back