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Get an insight into the lives of children in the 18th and 19th centuries through this unique collection of Scottish samplers on loan from American collector Leslie B. Durst.
Venue: National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
The creative tension between accomplished skill, experimentation and the development of new ideas, provides the starting point for Ctrl/Shift, the latest exhibition from The 62 Group of Textile Artists. The exhibition enables participating artists to explore projects which manifest as transformations in their practice. Ctrl/Shift takes shifts and changes as its theme; in particular it is centred on artists whose practice is or has transformed, in small or large ways, especially towards expressions of innovation in textile art. These shifts may be around changing attitudes to control; the introduction of new materials and techniques; and/or the impact of innovative and contemporary themes and ideas, and evolving technologies.
Venue: National Centre for Craft and Design, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7TW
Website: http://www.http://nccd.org.uk/
An exhibition, featuring clothes from 8th century Peru to 21st century Denmark as well as prints, rugs, tapestries and embroideries made by some of the greatest names in Western art.
Venue: Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Threads is a group exhibition by Quinary. Threads of memory or memories of thread: through cloth and stitch we explore family, place, missing threads and threads that bind us together and set us free.
11.00am – 4.00pm
Closed Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd
Venue: Lansdown Gallery, Lansdown, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1BB
Website: http://www.lansdownhall.org
The 20th anniversary by the Danish Tapestry Group of an exhibition which marked the start of the restoration of the art of tapestry weaving in Denmark.
Venue: Vendsyssel Kuntsmuseum, P Norkjaers Plad 15, 9800 Hjorring, Denmark
A display of Welsh folk dancing costumes made from Welsh flannel.
Venue: National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire SA44 5UP
Website: http://museum.wales/wool/
'Certaine Wytches' is an exhibition of large and small-scale knotted tapestries by textile artist Anne Jackson. These contemporary tapestries explore the history of witchcraft and witch-persecution, both as commemoration and as a metaphor for our contemporary fears. The work derives from detailed historical research, using original witch-trial documents and populist pamphlets of the Early Modern period. The work explores and brings to life a dark period of European history with resonances of what is happening in contemporary societies. The voices of the persecuted women are woven into the striking tapestries.
Alongside these thought provoking works there will be a number of additional events, including a day of artistic and academic discussion at The University of Exeter and free drop-in workshops.
Venue: Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF
Website: https://www.crafts.org.uk/Events-Exhibitions/2019/Ex-19/Certaine-Wytches-Fear,-Myth-Magic
Textiles as a tool for socio-political reflection. In a world where boundaries are increasingly blurred the exhibition presents work by contemporary artists.
Venue: TextielMuseum, Goirkestraat 96, 5046 GN Tilburg, Netherlands
Website: http://www.textielmuseum.nl
When Waves Collide is a project by Coventry-based textile artist and weaver Theo Wright, that explores a range of interactions between two wave-forms through a collection of handwoven textiles.
Two sine waves are woven into the structure of each textile and the project looks at what happens when the two different waves interact. The waves are incorporated in both the warp and weft of each work, forming patterns of circles and curves that intersect across the fabric.
Theo weaves each piece by hand on a 16-shaft loom using a cotton yarn. The shafts of the loom are threaded in two interleaved sequences that represent the sine waves. The threading is different for each piece in the collection. An interleaved sequence following the same principles is used in the weft. Bold use of colour emphasises the two wave-forms in each work.
Venue: National Centre for Craft and Design, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 7TW
Website: http://www.nccd.org.uk
Fabric Africa is a stunning snapshot of the diversity of modern and historic textiles from across the continent of Africa.
Venue: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Website: http://www.bristolmuseums. org.uk
New textiles by Cas Holmes explore the 'in between' spaces connecting land, place and environment.
Venue: Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1LX
Website: http://www.huguenotmuseum.org
This exhibition explores the work of the Yoshioka Dyeing Workshop in Kyoto. The Japanese have long had a deep appreciation of colour and a close relationship with their natural surroundings and the changing of the seasons. This exhibition aims to show how this has been expressed by the careful creation of colour combinations and how Yoshioka has studied and developed Japan’s age-old natural dyeing techniques showing its vibrant colour culture.
Venue: Japan House, 101 - 111 Kensington High Street, London W8 5SA
Website: http://www.japanhouselondon.uk
An exhibition of the shortlisted tapestries for the Cordis Prize 2019.
Venue: Inverleith House Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR
Website: http://thetapestryprize.org/project/the-cordis-prize-2019/
From Syria, Iraq, Turkey & Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from the Whitworth's collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.
Venue: The Whitworth, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Exhibition in the Long Gallery at Oriel Ynys Mon. Tapestries by Ros Hornbuckle.
These tapestries celebrate the beauty of the coast of Wales. Mountains, sea, beach, rocks, birds and sky, and the ever changing effect of weather and light, are all my inspiration.
The many hours spent weaving the coastenhances my affection for and relationship with this country.
Venue: Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey LL77 7TQ
Website: http://www.kyffinwilliams.info
An exhibition by Alison Ellen (knitting); Julie Hedges(ply-split braiding); Ann Richards (weaving); and Deidre Wood (weaving) exploring the fascinating ways that shapes can emerge spontaneously from the interplay of raw materials and structure.
Venue: Whitchurch Silk Mill, Whitchurch, Hampshire RG28 7AL
Website: http://www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk
The new TRC exhibition includes examples of velvet dating from the late fifteenth century to the present day. There are over 100 garments and textiles, ranging from samples of cotton, linen, mohair, silk and wool velvet (some of which visitors can touch), velveteens, kuba velvets, to children’s velvet garments, wedding dresses, not to mention a wide range of velvet hats! A real feast for the senses.
Venue: Textile Research centre, Hogewoerd 164, 2311 HW Leiden, Netherlands
Website: http://www.trc-leiden.nl
Popular designer Orla Kiely is celebrated for her plant based patterns that pack a powerful graphic punch on everyday life.
Her flat graphic style and choice of colour palette have chimed with recent nostalgia for vintage style and interiors, this exhibition explores why the rhythms and repeats of her designs have such wide and enduring appeal. With unique access to the company archives, this exhibition offers a privileged insight into the designer’s world. Re-visiting the work of other twentieth century luminaries in pattern design, this exhibition explores the story of pattern and how some designs can come to epitomise the style of their time.
This exhibition was previously shown at the Fashion & Textile Museum London.
See the Dovecot Studios website for details of events associated with the exhibition.
Venue: Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
Website: http://www.dovecotstudios.com
Twenty tapestries woven by Dovecot weavers.
Venue: Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
Website: http://www.dovecotstudios.com
Sheep is a project designed to create a dialogue around the upland landscape of Mid Wales. The exhibition will explore its history, heritage and culture as a sheep farming community, and in particular the ecology and future uses of the land in relation to current discussions about land management and the future of farming in Wales
Venue: Ceredigion Museum, Coliseum, Terrace Road, Aberystwyth SY23 2AQ
Website: http://www.ceredigionmuseum.wales/
Spanning 1947 to the present day, this exhibition traces the history and impact of one of the 20th century's most influential couturiers, exploring the enduring influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s relationship with Britain.
Venue: V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Website: http://www.vam.ac.uk
Under Your Feet: The Contemporary Rug is a celebration of rugs designed in the British Isles. Nineteen of the best rug makers today are represented in this exhibition. Their rugs will be spread out in a colourful, textured and timely reminder that underfoot, or on a wall, rugs remain as vibrant and relevant as any other craft medium.
Venue: Ruthin Craft Centre, Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB
The Collection: Textiles from the Arab World
Multaka volunteers at the Pitt Rivers Museum have worked closely with staff to add new perspectives to a collection of textiles, recently donated by Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul. Jenny is a researcher, collector of worldwide textiles and a renowned expert on indigo dye. In 2016, she offered the Museum a selection of textiles purchased during her travels around the Middle East and North Africa during the 1970s and 1980s.
Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Rd Oxford OX1 3PP
Website: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/multaka-connecting-threads
Wonderwool Wales covers all aspects of felting, knitting, weaving, spinning & crochet along with textile art, with raw materials, equipment, books & finished products to buy. There are demonstrations and a selection of animals on display including sheep, angora rabbits, angora goats & alpacas.It includes a series of Woolschools throughout the weekend which can be booked in advance online.
Venue: Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells LD2 3SY
Website: http://www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk
Lavishly decorated clothes played an important role in society even 1500 years ago. Dress could be used to express dignity, rank and high standards. This special exhibition presents several tunics of the 5th - 7th centuries and numerous small woven panels which once decorated tunics.
Venue: Abegg-Stiftung, Werner Abeggstrasse 67, CH-3132 Riggisberg Switzerland
Website: http://www.abegg-stiftung.ch
This is an exhibition of all forms of textile arts including embroidery, cross stitch, tapestry and more. The exhibition shows how textile art today goes beyond the purely decorative, showing its connections to folk traditions, abstract art, word and activism.
Venue: Rheged Centre, Redhill, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ
Website: http://www.rheged.com/event/thread-contemporary-textiles/
The show will feature over 40 selected exhibitors from across the UK carefully curated by Sarah Peel of CoolCrafting and Marion Woolcott, formerly of Woolfest, celebrating the finest yarns, natural wool and knits, spinning, weaving, cross stitch, applique, quilting, felting, block printing, haberdashery and much more! Includes talks, demonstrations, workshops and bookable masterclasses.
Venue: Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ
Website: http://www.rheged.com/arts/knit-and-stitch-show-2019/
Jacy Wall, woven tapestries and original prints. Björk Haraldsdóttir, ceramics
Part of the Select Arts Festival 2019
For more information contact info@sitselect.org
Venue: Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, GL5 1BB
Website: http://www.jacywall.co.uk
Artist and basketmaker Tim Johnson makes contemporary baskets rooted in world traditions. Based on the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia he uses a wide variety of plant materials harvested in the countryside and along the urban margins of his home town. The specific properties of these plant materials combined with diverse techniques gleaned from researches and experimentation give endless possibilities for creativity and expression.
Venue: Crafts Study Centre, Falkner Rd, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS
Website: http://www.csc.uca.ac.uk/
Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, this year the festival brings together over 240 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world.
Many textile-related events (talks, exhibitions & workshops) including:
A Second Life. Woven Waste - Installation From a Regenerating Site. Battersea Power Station.
Bamford x Injiri: Traditional Indian Handweaving & Embroidery Class.
Blue Innovations: Contemporary Czech Indigo Prints
LUACHANNA: PINCH x Mourne Textiles
Indigo Hands - an installation of hand-dyed indigo flags by BUAISOU and indigo dyeing workshops.
Full programme and details of venues, times etc on the website.
Venue: Various
Website: http://www.londoncraftweek.com
A studio trail around the Stroud area. Check the website for details.
A wool festival dedicated to the best of yarn, knitting, and crochet, in the gateway to the Peak District.
Venue: Buxton Pavilion Gardens, St. John’s Road, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6BE
Website: http://www.buxtonwool.co.uk
A studio trail around the Stroud are. See website for details.
A celebration of all things woolly.
Venue: Lower Drayton Farm Penkridge, Staffordshire, ST19 5RE
Website: http://wool-j13.uk/
With sales table, raffle, an afternoon talk, refreshments and a few extras!
10.30 - 4. For more information: taweguild@gmail.com
Venue: The Cross, Pontardawe, Swansea SA8 4HU
An exhibition of new work by weaver Theo Wright.
Open: Wed – Sat, noon – 5pm
https://www.directartactionuk.com
Venue: 210a Parade, The Gracechurch Centre, Sutton Coldfield B72 1PA
Covering a wide range of textile disciplines from embroidery and mixed media to weaving and felting, Textravaganza will provide a unique opportunity to meet textile artists from across the North, buy their work, discover the workshops they run, and chat about the materials and techniques they use.
Venue: Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ
To celebrate seventy years of the Somerset Guild, we are planning an extra big and exciting Fleece Fair this year. You will be able to buy direct from top producers of fleece from a wide variety of sheep and alpaca including lots of rare breeds. Help will be on hand for "fleece novices". Yarns, tops and equipment also on sale. Demonstrations and refreshments. From 09.30 a.m.
Venue: Village Hall, Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton TA3 6SG.
Website: http://www. somersetguildwsd.org.uk
Weavers of the Clouds brings the captivating designs of Peru to the UK, showcasing some of the world’s oldest and most colourful art and textiles. Peru has a world-renowned heritage of fibre arts and costumes, from a lineage that dates back thousands of years.
Weavers of the Clouds explores the processes and practices of both historic and contemporary Peruvian costume via garments, textiles, photographs, tools, illustrations and paintings, dating from pre-Hispanic to present day.
Venue: Fashion & Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Website: http://www.ftmlondon.org/ftm-exhibitions/weavers-of-the-clouds-textile-arts-of-peru/
Week 1 at New Designers, 26 - 29 June, will showcase: Textiles & Fashion, Costume Design, Surface Pattern Design, Ceramics & Glass, Jewellery, Contemporary Design Crafts.
Includes One Year In - designers who were featured in the 2018 show.
Venue: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London, N1 0QH
Website: http://www.newdesigners.com
A Summer Exhibition by Fabricate the textile group from the western fells. Felt, stitch, print, spin and weave
Inspired by ‘Get Buzzing’ Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Pollinator Initiative
Further details: florence@florenceartscentre.com 01946 824946
Venue: Florence Arts Centre, Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, CA22 2NR
Website: http://www.florenceartscentre.com
Hannah often combines weaving with techniques borrowed from lace-making or basketry. She thinks sculpturally about thread pathways to create technically ambitious surfaces and forms. Bizarre and Curious Silks is shown in collaboration with the Huguenot Museum where Hannah will present work inspired by the texile heritage and techniques of the Huguenots.
Venue: Rochester Art Gallery & Craft Case, 95 High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1LX
Website: http://https://www.medway.gov.uk/info/200182/arts_and_heritage/303/arts_in_medway/2
Venue: Snape Maltings, Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1SP
Website: http://www.snapemaltings.co.uk
Refreshments, sales table, raffle and spinning wheel servicing.
Further information: midessexwsd@googlemail.com
Venue: Grange Barn, Coggeshall, Essex CO6 1RE
Website: http://www.midessexguildwsd.org.uk
The Weaver´s Market in Haslach is located in the narrow streets of the oldest part of the town. 100 exhibitors from several nations will be displaying a range of their textile creations, all of them exquisite hand-made products. The market is renowned far beyond the area for the high quality of the goods as well as for its pleasant atmosphere and has been recognised with a prize on several occasions. Every year a mixed jury selects the participants from the several hundred applicants. Beside the Weaver´s Market also the so called „Faserzone“ takes place, a yarn and material fair where producers and traiders can offer their goods.
Venue: Haslach, Austria
Website: http://www.textile-kultur-haslach.at/en/weavers-market
In 2019 the ETN conference will be held in Haslach, Austria. The motto will be ‘Garden of Eden’ thus linking a wide range of cultural and historical themes with questions of today.The European Textile Network (ETN) is an international association founded in 1991 with the aim of promoting exchange between nations and strengthening European community spirit through the textile medium after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Every two years, a large international conference takes place in different countries at locations with a textile background.
From 28th until 31st July 2019 the 19th ETN-conference will be held at the Textile Centre Haslach, a multifunctional place in the north of Austria, where museum, education and production meet under the roof of an old textile mill. Haslach is host to an international textile symposium, called Textile Kultur Haslach, with many workshops, exhibitions and a weavers market. The 2019 ETN conference will be embedded in this event.
The motto of the conference will be ‘Garden of Eden’. Accompanying the ETN conference we will be showing textile exhibitions throughout the region. Visiting these exhibitions and traveling through our beautiful rural region will make you experience the ‘Garden of Eden’ here in Haslach and its surrounding area.
Associated with the conference are workshops, the Weavers Market and exhibitions. see website for details.
Venue: Haslach, Austria
Website: http://www.etn-net.org
One week residential Summer School with a wide range of courses offered. Full details of the courses on the website.
Applications close 31 December 2018
Venue: Askham Bryant College, York YO23 3FR
Website: https://www.wsdss19.wordpress.com
An exhibition of new work by weaver Theo Wright.
http://www.theowright.co.uk/outofsynch.html
Venue: Handweavers Studio, 140 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 7NS
Website: http://www.handweavers.co.uk
An exhibition of works resulting from a Wales / India exchange programme by textile artists. Includes weaving, digital print on cloth and stitched work.
Venue: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, penglais Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3DE
The final venue for an exhibition which toured a number of venues in Scotland in 2018.
Linking art, design and industry, the exhibition explores a rich heritage, new work and insights into contemporary materials and manufacturing at home and abroad. Five Storybooks, printed on linen paper, are available to read at the exhibition stations: Featured Designers: Linen Journeys in Design, European Unions, Art & Acquisition, Plant & Production and Supply & Sustainability. Our Exhibition Design is in collaboration with artist Nick Sargent. Our Linen Storybooks are created in collaboration with Alison Newman of PULP.
Venue: The Dovecot Gallery, 10 Infirmary St, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
Website: http://www.dovecotstudios.com
Tokyo Spinning Party has Exhibitors and Trade Stands covering all aspects of Dyeing, Spinning, Weaving, Braiding, Knitting, Crochet, Felting along with Textile Art with raw materials, equipments, books. There are also demonstrations, workshops and lectures. This is the 17th Tokyo Spinning Party.
OPEN : 10:00-17:00
ADMISSION FEE : 1000yen/each day
Please pay at Hall.
Admission for those under 15 years of age is free.
Email:info@tokyo-spinningparty.org
Venue: 3-9-10 Koutoubashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0022 Japan
Website: http://tokyo-spinningparty.org/
Shetland Wool Week is a world renowned celebration of Britain’s most northerly native sheep, the Shetland textile industry and the rural farming community on these islands. This year there will be an extensive range of exhibitions, classes and events, which will cover many different subjects. These will include; weaving, spinning, dyeing, Fair Isle and lace knitting as well as many other fascinating subject areas. Events will take place from the most southern tip of the Shetland, right up to the most northerly island of Unst, famous for its beautiful lacework, with many locations in between.
See website for full details.
Venue: Various venues in the Shetland Isles
Website: http://www.shetlandwoolweek.com
Kent Cloth textile works by Francesca Baur. This approach advocates a slower approach to creating natural local textiles with a story that employs traditional skills, from growing the flax for linen to making natural plant dyes. It is a botanical journey from the flax fields of Belgium and Normandy to the White Cliffs of Dover, and around the 'Garden of England'.
Venue: Rochester Art Gallery & Craft Case, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Website: http://https://www.medway.gov.uk/info/200182/arts_and_heritage/303/arts_in_medway/2
The West Wales Wool Show in Narberth is a celebration of all things woolly. From beautifully hand crafted items, clothing and footwear to knitting wool, fleece and all the equipment needed to make at home. Demonstrations run throughout the day with stall holders sharing their skills and knowledge with visitors plus wool skill workshops such as felting.
Venue: Queens Hall & Hyfrid Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire
The All-Wales Event for Spinners, Weavers and Dyers - suppliers stands, exhibitions of work by the Welsh Guilds, the Guild Challenge, raffle and sales table. Riitta Sinkkonen Davies will give a talk on My Weaving Life.
Venue: Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Powys SY18 6BY
A knitting and wool craft event
Knitting is a traditional craft that has been dated back to the 11th century in Eygpt. A special Wild About Wool knitting event and discover different types of wool and help solve your knitting conundrums by talking to friendly experts.
This event is suitable for all ages and levels, from beginners to experienced knitters.
Venue: Chilterns Open Air Museum, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AB
Website: http:///www.coam.org.uk/events/wild-about-wool-knitting-event/
East Sussex Guild exhibition with trade stalls, demonstrations, scarf raffle & refreshments.
Venue: Lewes Town Hall, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2QS
Website: http://www.esgwsd.org.uk
The biennial exhibition by Peter Tavy Guild of WSD. Our members have been taking inspiration from the work and influences of Bobbie Cox our founding President. Some of Bobbie's own work will also be on show.
The exhibition is open 10am to 4pm.
Venue: Peter Tavy Village Hall and Chapel
Website: http://www.petertavywsdguild.org.uk
The biennial conference focussing on historic dyeing technques. The 2019 conference will be held in Amsterdam - details to follow.
An exhibition of work by members of the Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers.
Venue: Whitchurch Silk Mill, 28 Winchester Street, Whitchurch, hampshire RG28 7AL
Website: http://www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk
Residential and non-residential weekend event with keynote speakers, practical sessions, demonstrations, talks and a Saturday evening dinner.
Further details from: guildsgathering@wsd.org.uk
Venue: University of Worcester
Website: http://wipagwsd.wordpress.com/colour-the-full-spectrum/
The biennial exhibition of the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers, organised by the North West and Online guilds.
The theme for the juried section will be 'Coal, Cotton, Canals'. The theme for the unjuried section will be 'Still Waters'.
The exhibition will coincide with the opening of the Leigh branch of the Leeds to Liverpool canal, which will be celebrated during Heritage Weekend.
Venue: Leigh Spinners Mill, Park Lane, Leigh WN7 2LB
Website: http://www.wsd.org.uk
The diary appears in the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
The Journal is published on behalf of the Association of Guilds of Spinners Weavers and Dyers. It covers a wide range of textile subjects, including articles on historic textile techniques and cutting edge modern design.
