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Latest News:
17/06/2008
The British Sari Story 2008 competition
The British Sari Story 2008 competition is offering a £250 top prize for a design for a British Bridal Sari. Do you have a vision of a sari showing the hopes, dreams and experience of a British Asian bride?
Traditionally bridal saris have fantastic beading and embroidery from south Asia. But Bridging Arts, the organisers of the competition, are looking for something new – British beading, embroidery and embellishment, reflecting British Asian experience in...
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13/06/2008
Upcycling Textiles Symposium
By Katherine Connorton
Green issues feature highly today. We hear a lot about what manufacturers can do or are doing in terms of environmental issues. Textiles Environment Design (TED), which began in 1996, aims to challenge the designer to create textiles with reduced environmental issues.
Research suggests designers who make informed choices at the outset, can improve the environmental performance of a product by up to 80%.
In association with TED,...
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11/06/2008
Hyperbolic Coral Reef
By Katherine Connorton
This extraordinary project began when physicist and mathematician Margaret Wertheim, Influenced by the work of Daina Taimina, began to crochet.
Taimina crocheted models of hyperbolic space (a space in which an infinite number of parallel straight lines can pass through one point) to demonstrate to her classes. It was Margaret Wertheim’s sister Christine, a lecturer, who pointed out that the knitted items resembled coral.
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11/06/2008
Fine Cell Work
By Katherine Connorton
An idea originally conceived by Lady Anne Tree, while a prison visitor in the 1960s, Fine Cell Work is an established charity that focuses on teaching inmates the art of needlework to enable them to produce work with which they gain financial and emotional benefits. The charity’s teaching volunteers operate in around 22 prisons across England and Scotland.
Inmates are taught skills such as needlepoint, embroidery and appliqué...
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06/06/2008
June 2008 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June edition of The Textile Directory newsletter. This month we have some very exciting news from several designers, including Alison Daykin who has been selected to exhibit at 100% design and University College Falmouth student Laura Leach who has won the Lee Cooper Centenary Jeans Competition Award. ...
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Latest Diary Dates:
7-22 July 2008
RED
This exhibition features a range of artworks by the RECREATION studio artists, including paintings, textiles, sculpture and jewellery....
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Latest Book Review:
The Painted Quilt
The Painted Quilt – paint and print techniques for colour on quiltsAuthors: Linda and Laura Kemshall
Publisher: David and Charles
120 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-7153-2450-9
Price £14.99
Reviewed by Diane Watson
This book promises to enable the reader to “add colour to quilts in a way that’s beyond fabric, creating textiles more dimensional, detailed and distinctive that you ever imagined possible.”
If like me you...
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