Innehållsförteckning för November - December 2022 från Embroidery

At the top of many stitchers’ festive shopping lists would be this gorgeous set of all kinds of textured and smooth, naturally-dyed cotton and silk threads. But if you buy this as a gift, can you be trusted to pass it on to the person you had earmarked for it? This box full of gems will be arriving at the Loop shop at the end of October. Keep a look out, as you’ll have to act fast to bag this limited edition, specially made for Loop, £60. WWW.LOOPKNITTING.COM £2,000 BURSARY The Costume and Textile Association has announced the fourth Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary of up to £2,000 for research into costume or textile history will be awarded in June 2023. The award is usually spread over two years and may…

Next year is the 30th anniversary of the graduate showcase initiated by The Embroiderers’ Guild and The Knitting and Stitching Shows. Over three decades it has provided a showcase for more than 400 graduates and scholars, and now we are trying to reach all of them to register their interest in showcasing their work again. We want to celebrate their successes and demonstrate to students and parents that there is an exciting career out there for creative textile artists. Many people have a stereotypical understanding of embroidery, and we want to show visitors there is a host of creative routes that can be pursued. If you are a graduate or scholar, please contact Anthea Godfrey at ARTISTICDIRECTOR@EMBROIDERERSGUILD.COM and if you have kept in contact with other guild graduates or scholars,…

▝ Tabitha Buckley graduated from Falmouth University in 2019 with a BA (Hons) in textile design. Tabitha says: ‘The Embroiderers’ Guild offered a brilliant opportunity to connect with other textile design graduates and have a platform at the Knitting and Stitching Shows to exhibit my graduate collection. This led to a couple of features in Stitch magazine and gave me the confidence to set up my own business, Tabitha Textiles, which specialises in bespoke wedding embroidery.’ Tabitha now creates bespoke and individually-designed wedding veils and accessories and has been featured in Tatler, Rock My Wedding, Junebug and Sussex Wedding Magazine. She can incorporate initials, monograms, wedding dates, script, song lyrics, or meaningful secret symbols with embroidery. As well as the bridal market, Tabitha Textiles also offers a professional logo embroidery…

▝ ART IS ALWAYS a balance between being commercial by creating work that you should make and creating artwork that nourishes your soul. When the two align the results are magical. Based in the beautiful rural village of Upper Moutere, near Nelson, New Zealand, and surrounded by vineyards, hop farms, orchards and country gardens, Fleur Woods’ work is largely inspired by nature. It is here that Fleur spends hours of quiet reflection creating her unique artwork that has caught the eye of large publications and art lovers around the globe. Her self-taught process starts with abstract dyeing and painting linen, before applying botanical outlines and details with wash and ink. When Fleur is not in her studio, she will often be travelling and teaching workshops, sharing her unique process and…

‘I COME FROM a large artistic and creative family and as the youngest of 13 children have been immersed in the world of textiles since an early age. My grandmother and great-grandmother were cotton weavers. Both my mother and father were keen craftspeople and my siblings are still very much into art and traditional crafts, from dressmaking and knitting Aran jumpers to wood-carving and painting. Now their children are artists in their own right, keeping arts and crafts alive within our family. One of my fondest memories is watching my mother sewing on a pedal Singer machine. I waited patiently for my turn, while my mother made new summer dresses, amazing quilts or even new rag dolls for us. Sewing is the most treasured gift my mother gave me. This…

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THE NATURAL world has long been an inspiration for artists. The Hand & Lock Prize 2022 asked entrants to take inspiration from the power of nature – evolution, adaptation, biomimicry, texture, colour, craft and sustainable practices. ‘Be innovative and imagine a future where humans learn from nature to live in harmony with nature,’ entrants were advised by the brief. Most of us have a relationship with biomimicry of which we may not be aware. It is the practice of learning from and mimicking the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges. Velcro, for example, mimics the tiny teeth in burrs, the plants that sometimes stick to you when you take the dog for a walk. Artists took the natural world theme to heart to come up with some…

To celebrate the breadth of the Embroiderers’ Guild archive on ExactEditions.com, an invaluable resource with an excellent search function, our four tea towels and totes feature the earliest items in our archive, with covers from The Embroideress dating back 100 years. It’s a fascinating read, along with decades of our more recent coverage, all delivered direct to your device. We will be selling our tea towels and totes with a special offer at the Knitting and Stitching Show Harrogate. 100% cotton tea towels £10 100% heavy cotton canvas totes £14 At KSS Harrogate, 17-20 November: two tea towels can be purchased for the reduced price of £18, and two canvas totes for £25. Plus, find out how to buy a combined print and digital archive subscription and get your tea…

Gasps, cheers and whoops erupted from the audience as the UAL’s (University of the Arts London) chancellor, Grayson Perry, serenely walked down the aisle of Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in July for the first of many graduation ceremonies to come. This was the first time friends, family and academics had seen the resplendent student-designed robes, a fantastic fusion of embroidery, knitting, crochet, beading, stitching, handcrafting and weaving, culminating in a long train, trailing metres behind the Turner Prize-winning artist. Each year a competition is held to design the robes worn by the chancellor, an opportunity for thousands of aspiring students to design and make a once-in-a-lifetime outfit and win £1,000 to bring their design to life. Students must design something to suit Grayson’s daring sensibilities, but which is also…

The new exhibition Hand Me Downs is bringing Annie Montgomerie’s wonderland of textile characters to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Montgomerie is no secret; she has been making for many years and has a lot of people watching her do it on Facebook and Instagram. But her work is lesser-spotted in exhibitions. Hand Me Downs will be a rare opportunity to admire her work up close for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to own a piece. She has history with Yorkshire Sculpture Park but this exhibition will present her largest cast assembled there yet. Montgomerie’s work is something you either get, or you don’t. Dolls of any kind, people seem to either love or loathe. They may even find them a bit creepy, something Montgomerie finds odd because in making…

My studio is a bright room attached to my 17th century cottage, with a door opening on to a courtyard garden, which I use as an extension of my workroom. With beams overhead, the studio has lots of storage in the form of fabric-covered boxes, with books and antique artefacts to inspire me. I spend as much time as I can in my garden and love to explore the beautiful countryside on our doorstep. I enjoy visiting open gardens and stately homes, and when I am in London, one of my favourite places is the Victoria and Albert Museum. I also find plenty of inspiration online with Instagram and Pinterest. I have loved fabrics and the textures and forms that can be achieved with embroidery since I was a child.…

THERE’S SOMETHING VERY SATISFYING about encountering a lone artwork in a gallery space. As with Farwa Moledina’s Women of Paradise exhibit at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, one’s focus is centred on one object and there’s time to sit and see where it takes you. For a former Victorian school, the Ikon is full of light; indeed, the stair wells leading up to the Tower Gallery give the illusion, reinforced by the transparency of the stair treads, that one is walking on air. It’s a meandering, up and down journey to the space and then when you get there its smallness is a shock (more than three people in there at one time is a squeeze). Standing on the bare cement floor, Moledina’s quadriptych fills the room and separating one’s sense of…

Simone Elizabeth Saunders: u.n.i.t.y. is on show at The Textile Museum of Canada until 29 January. Evoking personal history, Afro diaspora and black sisterhood, Saunders creates portraits with bold and colourful textiles. Her dramatic tufted works incorporate motifs from her Jamaican heritage and engage with socio-cultural factors to reclaim power from oppressive ideologies. Saunders’ background in theatre arts informs her practice, as she integrates dramatism and story-telling within her creations. Saunders has only recently embraced textile art, but her great-grandfather in Jamaica was an affluent tailor. Inspired by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, Four Queens, 2020, sees black women take poses similar to those in Mucha’s Precious Stones (1900) but gaze directly at viewers as embodiments of Black Power, Dreams, Magic and Love. TEXTILEMUSEUM.CA…

The Embroiderers Guild graduate showcase started in the early 1990s, alongside a showcase for knitting graduates at The Knitting and Stitching Shows (KSS). The organisations caring for embroidery and knitting selected the most promising graduates and Twisted Threads of the Knitting and Stitching Shows provided free exhibition space at Alexandra Palace, Harrogate and Dublin. The idea was to showcase the best textile graduates so their work would become more widely known, and celebrated, across the UK. The initial knitting and stitching events were suppliers’ shows, but there had never been a show before which exposed textile enthusiasts to such a wide variety of inspiration, including the work of established artists and groups, specialist collectors and booksellers, plus exhibitions. The shows soon became the ‘must see’ event in the annual calendar.…

▝ Jessica Grady graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in 2014 and is an artist, designer and tutor who exhibits, teaches and speaks about her creative practice across the UK and beyond. Her work is inspired by colour and pattern and celebrates the joy of stitch and recycling. Jessica says: ‘To be awarded the Embroiderers Guild Under 30s Scholar 2018-2019 was such a huge boost to my confidence, and also helped immensely with pushing my career to the next level. I got the opportunity to exhibit at the Knitting and Stitching Shows, something that had been on my career bucket list since I graduated from university. Having such a large audience with knowledge of textiles viewing and speaking to me about my work, gave me so many important connections…

▝ ON SHOW in the exhibition Hallyu! The Korean Wave at the V&A until 25 June 2023, The Peony Dress by Miss Sohee, 2020, is part of the artist’s graduation collection from Central Saint Martins. Sohee Park, known as Miss Sohee, is a womenswear designer based in London. Enthralled by the feeling of escapism that illustrating granted her, Park began to translate her sketches from the page into real life to create vibrant silhouettes that she defines as ‘demi-couture’. Her graduation collection, The Girl In Full Bloom, was inspired by the concept of evolution from girl to woman, in parallel with the designer’s own transition and her progression from illustration to design. Shortly after graduating, Park’s gowns were featured in Vogue, and have since been seen on personalities such as…

A visual trip round China With 698 illustrations, China Adorned is marketed as a ‘visual encyclopaedia’. Drawing on more than three decades of research by cultural anthropologist Professor Deng Qiyao, the book tantalises us by noting there are 56 officially-recognised ethnic groups in China’s countryside, each with their own style of richly embellished dress. In the thought-provoking introduction, the professor remembers one of his first research visits to a Miao village in Yunnan, where is asked by an elderly man, ‘Can you read?’ The author is dumbfounded until the old man points to a young girl wearing traditional garb and says, ‘Our ancestral heritage is written here.’ The professsor only briefly discusses the symbolism of this region’s clothing: in this Miao village, where beautiful designs are both embroidered and printed…

1. SALAD DAYS The Salad Bed Kit, £68, illustrates Lemon Pepper Studio’s signature love of nature and embroidery and explores a range of three-dimensional stumpwork stitches, bringing them together in a beautiful embroidered vegetable patch. Working through each salad item will teach you French knots, bullion knots, Turkey work, drizzle stitch, and three-dimensional techniques to create freestanding chard leaves. The framing kit, £35, will teach you how to stretch and display your embroidery in a lovely oval frame. LEMONPEPPERSTUDIO.COM 2. GNOMES GALORE The new Christmas collection from designer Loetitia Gibier, from Korry’s Little Shop, includes gnomes galore. Select your kit from single felt appliqué gnomes to the fully embroidered gnome trio. The kits come with everything you need, including fabric, threads, beads, needles and step-by-step photo instructions, even the attractive…

Embroidery magazine is once again sponsoring the visitors’ choice prize in the Madeira embroidery competition, offering a year’s magazine subscription to the winner. Judged at the Fashion & Embroidery Show 2023, at the NEC Birmingham 16-19 March 2023, and organised by ICHF Events, the brief says: ‘Life is colourful in many ways. If taken literally, we see countless shades. However, colour can be deeper than that. Colour can affect our moods and without it, the world would be lifeless. So, get stitching.’ The overall winner claims the Madeira Rose Bowl trophy, a 122-spool treasure chest and a Husqvarna Sapphire 930 sewing machine, with prizes for: Category A: – mainly machine embroidery; Category B – mainly hand embroidery. The closing date for entries is 27 January 2023 and finished items should…