Next meeting is 18th November 2021 with a presentation by Victoria Riley on ‘The Art of Batik’
Following the meeting is a mini workshop guided by one of our members.
21st October 2021
This was our second meeting of Connected Threads , with two visitors joining members for our first face to face speaker in 20 months.
We are arranging a Christmas Celebration with a surprise speaker and for the months ahead also have a selection of mini workshops planned.
Our speaker was Judith Rowley with ‘A Journey through Time’ outlining her journey to date. This started with an early love of making things, then becoming a Primary teacher and progressing via a diploma in stitch textiles to being a textile artist with a focus on fabric manipulation, hand and machine stitch. Judith has always been interested in history and the past so uses this to inform her textile art as can be seen from the selection of her work.
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Turquoise bag inspired by the Tessellated mosaic at Chedworth National Trust |
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Poppies 1914/18, inspired by the lady who picked and placed the poppies where a soldier died. |
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Mail bags on wheels which linked to form a train inspired by the suffragettes who placed explosive devices into mail boxes. |
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| Childs dress embroidered with faces of babies who were left behind when the suffragettes were jailed. |
Scarf created for fashion icon
Wallace Simpson which was inspired
by finding the 1930's black bag.'On the Box' people would pay into a
'Friendly Society' putting money into
the box weekly to support the
family in times of need Inspired by a piece of William Morris
fabric which was cut up and then inlaid
into apiece of work which
incorporated the colours and idea
of strawberries from the original fabric.
