Kantha workshop with Susi Bancroft
In February this year, Susi Bancroft spoke to the Guild about the Brunel Broderers and said she would be pleased to return to organise a workshop on Kantha work. She […]
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Textile Artists
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Beads & bangles workshop – Caroline Marriott
Eight of us enjoyed this month’s workshop with Caroline Marriott. It was a lovely relaxing and stress free day. At times the concentration was so intense you could have heard
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Alison Lister – October 2015
The speaker after our AGM this month was textile conservator, Alison Lister. Alison runs a private company, Textile Conservation Ltd, based in Bristol. She explained that most conservators hold an undergraduate
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Ruth Singer – July 2015
Unusually for a textile artist Ruth did not study for a degree in textiles but Medieval History. Having been fascinated in fabrics since childhood Ruth took a special interest in
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Judy Joiner bead workshop
On 15 June nine members gathered to enjoy an in-house workshop called “An Introduction to Bead Embroidery” run by member Judy Joiner. Judy had bought along examples of her work
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Kirsty Whitlock – June 2015
Kirsty Whitlock was the speaker at our open meeting this month and her talk was entitled “My journey through stitch”. Her interest in stitch started when she followed an NVQ
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Lynda Monk Workshop – 3 March 2015
We had a great time on Tuesday. Linda is a very generous tutor shares her techniques and materials. The easiest course I have had to prepare for as nearly everything
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Lynda Monk – March 2015
For our March meeting the Textile Artist, Lynda Monk talked about creating surface textures using varying techniques and materials. Thirty years ago Lynda enrolled on a C & G machine
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Helen Thomas – January 2015
For our first meeting of 2015 Helen Thomas’ talk was entitled “Papers are textiles too”. She studied art and sewing at school and quilting and patchwork in her spare time
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Jenny Adin-Christie – November 2014 Meeting
Ros is travelling in India so Christine Hill has stood in for her. Thanks, Christine Today the members enjoyed a fascinating and most informative talk by Jenny Adin-Christie entitled “Preserving