Original Textile Art
Trudie invited us to try eco printing in her garden on a fine day in the summer. Eco printing is a way of transferring the colours from plant materials on to fabric or paper. We just did fabric. To give the best chance of colour transferring to the cloth Trudie boiled our chosen fabric in … Continue reading The day we tried eco printing
This year, with Ed, Tres and Mandy, I visited The Red House, the Aldeburgh home in Suffolk of the composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears. I have always felt a certain attachment to them having in my youth shared a table with Mr Pears on the train coming home to Ipswich. … Continue reading A Visit to The Red House Aldeburgh
I did a couple of pieces of rust dyeing a while ago, then put them away as I couldn’t decide what to do with them. Then the Suffolk East Embroider’s Guild held a rust dyeing workshop at their monthly meeting and I was hooked in to trying it again. Rust dyeing is wrapping rust giving … Continue reading I’ve been rust dyeing
Wow! I have never been to such an amazing costume exhibition. The best yet at the Victoria and Albert Museum. So much to see and such wonderful colours and styles. You didn’t know where to look next. It was beautifully … Continue reading Christian Dior Extravaganza
Whilst our next exhibition of new work will not be held until September 2020 in Woodbridge we now have an opportunity to show again some of our previous work. This will be in St. Mary’s Church, Church Street, Hadleigh from Saturday 25th April until Saturday 4th May 2019. We are pleased to be exhibiting with … Continue reading Come and see us at Hadleigh Church.
Natural dyeing makes me happy. I love the process and then the thrill or disappointment of the fabric and threads that come out of the dyebath. This adventure started when a friend gave me some dried weld plant material which gave a useful yellow. Around the same time as I did this I watched … Continue reading The joy of dyeing
It was Alexander Graham Bell who said ” When one door closes another door opens.” For the Beyond Stitch group it is more a case of ” When one exhibition ends another begins.” Soon after the doors closed on our last group exhibition “Deepening the Mystery” at the Apex Gallery in Bury St. Edmunds last … Continue reading New Year, New Beginnings.
Autumn in Canada was quite an experience. I am used to seeing the beautiful Autumn colours of the trees in Suffolk but the sheer scale of the woodland areas, in the vast country of Canada, was a totally new experience. Journeys along quiet country roads meant that your eyes didn’t know which way to look. … Continue reading Autumn in Canada
As textile artists we are always looking for, and sometimes struggling for, inspiration for the next piece of work. The truth is that inspiration can come from absolutely everywhere. Some of us holiday in far flung places and see sights and experiences which inspire and influence us, others of us do not travel so far … Continue reading Inspiration