Stroud textile festival 2011

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Stroud Five Valleys, Gloucestershire, England

30 April – 22 May

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Introduction Dr Jessica Hemmings

‘Textiles are the first material to touch our skin at birth

and what many of us will lay on at the moment of death.

Textiles cover our bodies every day of our lives, and they

are the material we will rest between every night.

They protect us against the cold and the wind and excessive

light. They are an inescapable presence, trailing close

behind air, water and food in our list of needs and wants.

The sheer hours that textiles spend absorbing life have

left them well prepared for the messages they carry.

Textiles already know what we are saying. They know what

we are too excited to mention or can’t bear to remember.

Textiles already understand how to say two things in one

breath without fretting over seeming contradictions.

This poses a bit of a problem, because humankind is

enamoured with the written word. Our newest romance is

with the World Wide Web, a system that speeds and

shares astounding amounts of certain types of information.

Yet the internet has not come to terms with several of

textile’s most articulate modes of communication. Colour

is as arbitrary as the settings on our individual computer

monitors. Texture is all but nonexistent. Touch, for now,

remains impossible.’

2010 SIT Festival catalogue essay

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WelcomeLizzi WaltonFestival Director

The artists showing in WordPlay at the Museum in the Park

tease the written word into tactile images, interpreting their

observations with stitch and mark, challenging the viewer

to seek fresh ways to see their world.

Now in its sixth year, the International Textile Festival has

established itself as the UK’s principal festival to celebrate

textiles, from traditional through to contemporary textile

art, linked to related applied arts. Presented by Stroud

International Textiles, this year’s Festival highlights the truly

global language of textiles.

These are tough times for the arts but the Festival

survives and continues to grow and attract passion and

interest. We would like to thank everyone who has

supported SIT and the Festival over the last year with the

sponsorship, patronage and private donations that are so

crucial for our growth.

We are looking to the future with increased year round

activity, taking textile skills out into schools, raising our

virtual profile and spreading the word for textiles and the

related arts nationally and internationally.

The 2011 Festival promises an exciting and stimulating

programme of exhibitions, talks, workshops, events,

performance and opportunities for debate and discussion.

We welcome artists from Holland, France and Japan as

well as the UK. Established world class artists and

speakers rub shoulders with emerging future talent.

We hope you enjoy and come back for more next year.

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Jane Edgar RCA MSIADA showcase of post war printed and woven textiles made from 1937 to 1951

Saturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays

Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm

Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm

Foyer, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,

Stroud GL5 4AF

Jane Edgar studied art and design at Hammersmith

College of Art 1933-35 and then specialised in textiles

at the Royal College of Art 1935-38. This body of work

represents her designs printed by Heals and also by

Gerald Holton who made simple furniture, fabric and

pottery, and was a forerunner to Habitat. Many of his

textiles were supplied to new schools built after the war.

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Gallery 1, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,

Stroud GL5 4AF

Using a mix of media and materials that include

embroidery, wire, stitch, slate and enamelling, five artists

turn to mass media, traditional samplers, the National

Lottery and graffiti with a sprinkling of radical imagery and

thoughts and a pinch of humour.

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Clyde OlliverMuch of Clyde Olliver’s work combines slate with stitch

and occupies a niche somewhere between embroidery

and sculpture.

The process starts with finding appropriate slate, either

in the quarry or perhaps in the mason’s yard. It must then

be drilled to allow the passage of needle and thread,

mostly waxed linen.

Sometimes he uses stitch to bind stone elements

together but more often he uses stitch as a means of mark

making, often in response to historical traces present in the

slate, for example geological faults, the results of

weathering or simply the grime of aged soot and cement.

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l Tilleke SchwarzTilleke Schwarz stitches ‘maps of modern life’ that evoke

graffiti. Daily life, mass media, traditional samplers and

cats are major sources of inspiration. The result is a

mixture of content, graphics sprinkled with humour.

The work contains narrative elements rather than

complete stories with a beginning, a storyline and an end.

These structures are used as a form of communication

with the viewer who is invited to decipher connections or

to create them, becoming a kind of play between the

viewer and the artist.

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developed after researching into early signature cloths and

quilts. These cloths were made from the late 19th Century

as fundraisers and records of allegiance and belonging.

Lynn’s cloths also explore issues of identity and allegiance,

and the value of the handmade today. In this piece all the

names are real (Setterington’s, ‘possible friends’ on

Facebook); however the vast majority of signatures are fake,

created at random by friends and colleagues. Whilst some

of the work in this series uses new technologies, this piece

deliberately employs slow, painstaking hand embroidery.

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Debbie SmythDebbie Smyth’s playful yet sophisticated contemporary

artworks are created by stretching a network of threads

between accurately plotted pins. Her work beautifully blurs

the boundaries between fine art drawings and textile art,

flat and 3D work, illustration and embroidery, literally lifting

the drawn line off the page in a series of ‘pin and thread’

drawings. On first glance, it can look like a mass of threads

but as you get closer sharp lines come into focus, creating

a spectacular image. The images are first plotted out before

being filled out with the thread, the sharp angles contrasting

with the floating ends of the thread. And despite the

complexity of the lengthy process, they have a great feeling

of energy and spontaneity, and in some cases, humour.

Energetic, intriguing, original and playful, Smyth’s work is

a refreshing approach to illustration that displays texture and

scale that need to be seen to be truly appreciated.

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l Lauren SteeperLauren Steeper’s work is inspired by chance and its

relationship with order. For the work in this exhibition she

set herself the task of painstakingly cutting out every word

from a dictionary. Using this collection of over 150,000

words plus the weekly lottery draw, she created a system

which randomly dictates a set of words, colours and fonts

which she then stitched and completed. Lauren loves to

use time consuming processes like cross stitch to produce

results that are spontaneous and uncontrolled.

By imposing methodical systems on the unpredictable,

she questions whether a sense of meaning can be found

in disorder.

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Jessica TurrellJessica Turrell is an artist and jeweller who uses the

medium of vitreous enamel to explore the relationship

between memory and the portrait photograph: “The desire

to remember and to be remembered that motivates the

taking and keeping of photographs gives a poignancy to

the ‘found’ photograph where the identity of the subject

is irrevocably lost from memory.”

Much of Jessica’s work incorporates text, some of which

is autobiographical whilst other passages represent

fictionalised interpretations written in response to found

images. These delicate and barely legible veils of words

– and the shadows that they create – serve as a metaphor

for the fragility and mutability of the memories associated

with old photographs.

“Within the work the text (the ‘memory’) remains but

the photographs themselves are either eroded or are absent,

making the final remove from memory to forgetting.”

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LevelsSue Hiley HarrisSaturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays



Foyer Steps, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,

Stroud GL5 4AF

Internationally renowned sculptor weaver Sue Hiley Harris

was brought up in Brisbane, Australia, but has lived in

Wales since 1981.

The exhibition Levels comprises two groups of Sue’s

work using indigo dyed woven paper yarn. The first is her

Crags series which were first brought to wider attention at

Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery in 2007. Inspired by

the dramatic cliffs of Craig Cerrig Gleisiad near her home in

the Brecon Beacons National Park, these freestanding

works incorporate a distinctive meandering structure held

in place by intersecting warps. These have been dip-dyed

in both indigo and local red earth pigment.

This is also an opportunity to see Square Ends, her latest

series of work exploring new forms in woven sculpture.

Created especially for the Festival, these tall and majestic

cylindrical structures respond to the museum space and

are square-ended, reflecting a recent interest in woven

cubes. Levels of graded woad and indigo ikat dyeing

influence the impact and connect this series with the bare

upland landscape that nourishes her work.

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the WEAVE experimentStudio Seven Textile artistsSaturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays



The Plunge Pool, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,

Stroud GL5 4AF

Studio Seven returns to the Stroud International Textile

Festival for the 6th year with a new cutting edge project

running throughout summer 2011 which explores weave

and the manufacture of woven cloth and its link with the

textile heritage of the Stroud Valleys through installation,

performance and education.

Drawing from their expertise in print, dye, felt and stitch,

Studio Seven launch the WEAVE experiment with an

installation devised specifically for the Museum’s newly

restored Plunge Pool, linking elements of cloth making with

the use of water in the locality, incorporating contributions

made by local residents and families.

Studio Seven has created projects such as Textiles in

Performance, Make Do & Mend, Cut 2 On Fold and Remnants.

Through their collaborative and interactive process, Studio

Seven has become a potent and consistently inventive

force in the fields of textiles, installation and performance.

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RelicsCorinne Gradis & Elodie WatanabeSaturday 30 April – Saturday 21 May

Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm

Sundays 2pm – 5pm

The Long Room, Lansdown Hall and Gallery,

Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BN

It was the herring bone motif of an African cloth that

started Corinne and Elodie on an adventure of creating

this series of embroidered collages. Initially they were

inspired by a book on world traditions of basketry, which

illustrated wonderful examples of everyday-life baskets.

They played with patterns and rhythms enhancing the

drawing with embroidery.

Corinne began her career by constructing wall hangings

that were like free patchworks, though reminiscent of folk

art in their surface design. Elodie’s Japanese approach to

fibre and her relationship to textiles led to a change of

direction. Since they started working together, the work

has become more abstract and less figurative. They both

have a love of Morocco and travel there regularly to source

inspiration for their work.

“This country with its landscapes, luminous skies,

sunsets, incomparable smells and sounds, spices, its rich

crafts tradition, particularly textiles and Berber rugs,

has become a fundamental source of inspiration.’’

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TalismanSouth West Textile GroupSaturday 30 April - Sunday 22 May


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George Room Gallery, Subscription Rooms, George

Street, Stroud GL5 1AE

South West Textile Group is now 23 years old and we are

proud to exhibit our new work at the International Textile

Festival 2011. As a diverse group we have responded to

the theme of Talisman. What does this mean to you?

Good luck charm, four leafed clover, magic cloaks, amulets

to ward off evil spirits, symbols to counteract the evil eye,

rabbit’s foot or guardian angels, these are all possibilities.

You will see various textile expressions and techniques,

with weaving, quilting, felting, stitch and paper in evidence,

an eclectic mix of ideas and disciplines for you to enjoy.

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Festival Feast A selection of work from the FestivalSaturday 30 April –

Sunday 15 May 10am – 5pm

New Brewery Arts Gallery,

Brewery Court, Cricklade St,

Cirencester GL7 1JH

Artists exhibiting include Ptolemy

Mann, Lizzie Farey, Jan Garside,

Matthew Harris, Malcolm Martin &

Gaynor Dowling, Lynn Setterington.

Picnic is new collaborative work

from Alice Kettle and CJ O’Neill,

combining CJ O’Neill’s ceramics

with Alice Kettle’s collection of

stitched tablecloths and fabric

scraps. They have reclaimed these

vintage artefacts to make a

collection of picnic sets.

Personalised text patterns with

Aynsley traditional florals and

luminous orange highlights are

echoed in the stitched motifs.

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Site Specific workSophie HortonStroud: various locations

Sophie Horton will create a site

specific temporary textile

intervention in the landscape/

townscape of Stroud. The starting

point will be Stroud’s industrial

history. Utilising traditional knitting

processes and materials, Sophie will

make a dramatic art work that will

transform its environment, whilst on

show and also in the memory, once

the exhibition is over. The work will

initially appear to the viewer to be

constructed of much heavier,

tougher material, but on closer

inspection the touch and feel will be

a surprise as its domestic familiarity

becomes apparent.

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Student CollectiveSomerset CollegeSaturday 30 April –

Saturday 21 May 10am – 5pm

closed Sundays & Bank Holidays

Kendrick Street Gallery,

Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AA

admission free, no disabled access

A selection of work from the BA

students of Somerset College

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Somerset College at Stroud International Textile Festival 2011Stroud: various locations

Work from the students can be seen in shop windows

throughout the town and in the Kendrick Street Gallery.

The University of Plymouth validates 5 BA Honours

programmes in Textiles, Fashion and Surface Design at

Somerset College, Taunton. We are thrilled to be

presenting work from the second year students of these

courses at the 2011 SIT Festival. It has been an exciting

and fruitful collaboration, the results of which we are very

proud to be displaying throughout the Festival.

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long and proud tradition in cultivating the creative talents

of individuals in all aspects of design. The innovative

practice of its tutors, along with a dynamic curriculum has

led to it becoming the largest provider for University

degree education in the arts within Somerset, as well as

having a national and international reputation for the same.

The College has led the way in producing top level graduates

who work with some of the most prestigious organisations,

both during their studies and after. Their ingenious shows

in London and the South West outline the creative intent

for the division – to push boundaries and take the process

of design through to new extended possibilities.

We are showing work at the Stroud International Textiles

Festival from:

BA (Hons) Interior Textiles

BA (Hons) Surface Design

BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

BA (Hons) Fashion

You are also welcome to visit us at our two London shows,

New Designers and Free Range.

All graduating students’ work can be seen 13 – 23 June

at the Somerset College Summer Degree Shows, Somerset

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Student Collective Fashion BriefThe Fashion students took inspiration from Stroud, the

location, the surrounding countryside, along with the

interesting architecture and cultural influences found there.

Students were asked to demonstrate their design abilities

and specialism in the skill of tailoring ‘The Short Fitted

Jacket’. Each student had to produce a garment fashioned

from the woollen cloth supplied by Stroud’s Milliken at

Lodgemore Mills who generously sponsored this enterprise.

Milliken is the only working mill still producing cloth that is

used for tennis balls and snooker tables worldwide.

The designs had to be forward thinking and innovative,

clearly influenced in style by a current European designer

or fashion company. The beautifully crafted results can be

seen in shop windows throughout the town.

The BA (Hons) Design Fashion course is a creative,

dynamic and exciting programme of study. Students are

taken through the exciting and diverse world of fashion

from the initial design process to garment construction,

including fashion drawing and illustration, styling,

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personal design development and practice in a hands-on

environment. In recent recognition from industry, graduates

have been awarded Skillfast UK, Bronze Medal in World

Skills and Gold Medal in Euro Skills for Fashion Design

skills and processes.

Please do come and see our graduate Catwalk Show at

Free Range Fashion Week, 3 June 2011 at the Old

Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

Student Collective Interior Textiles and Surface Design Brief Students in their second year were asked to develop textile

and surface design pieces inspired by Stroud’s heritage

and surroundings. Each student selected materials and

processes appropriate to their concept and developed

designs which relate to the spaces in which they are

installed. The colour, scale and imagery hold stories about

the impression that the designers were left with following a

research trip to Stroud in November. Originality and

innovation were key elements of the brief. The individuality

of the outcomes expresses the diversity of the town and

the breadth of techniques and skills explored by the students.

The BA (Hons) Interior Textiles and Surface Design

programmes offer versatile combinations of these two

popular subject areas. A dynamic mix of processes and

materials are used to develop designs for the interior

and exterior environment. Students work with a variety of


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exciting processes such as laser cutting, digital and screen

printing, and explore materials from fabric to concrete

with which to reinvent the surfaces which surround us.

The College has close links with leading design

companies, and projects often involve designing for real

clients and real buildings with a strong track record in

national competitions. Somerset College has generously

equipped studios and places equal emphasis on business

practice and cutting edge design development. Graduates

are currently designing for international companies,

working on large scale architectural commissions and

establishing new businesses.

Graduating students from this course will also be

exhibiting at New Designers from 30 June – 2 July 2011

at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London

N1 0QH Please do come and see us there.

Student Collective Fashion Textiles BriefStudents were asked to take their visual research from

Stroud’s heritage, geographic location, famous people and

landscapes, anything which they deemed to be unique

and specific to Stroud. With this research they developed a

series of repeating designs suitable for screen print on to

fabric. Students considered their research, selected

appropriate visual imagery which they developed into

finished designs, considering scale, colour and fabric

choice to produce a selection of developed printed

samples. The design samples exhibited here have been

selected from that work.

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want a hands on approach to designing textiles for the

fashion industry. The fundamentals of design are built into

the course whilst learning tradition printing processes,

combined with the latest laser and digital printing

techniques. The aim of the course is to create innovative,

challenging designs ready for industry. This year three

students used their knowledge and skills during a 3 month

internship in India, working closely with the manufacturer

of a Couture fabric collection. Other students have had

success in the Bridal Buyer competition, Clothes Show

Live, and Texprint showing the diverse application of

designing textiles for fashion.

Graduating students from this course will also be

exhibiting their work at either Free Range Fashion Week,

3 June 2011 at the Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane,

London E1 6QL or New Designers 30 June – 2 July 2011

at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London

N1 0QH. Please do come and see us there.

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Static NatureAnthea WalshSaturday 30 April –

Sunday 22 May

Millets shop window, Stroud High

Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

This work explores landscape in

pattern, static nature and illusionary

space, both within the confines of

the structural geometry of the

design and the subject matter.

References are made to museum

natural history collections,

taxidermy and its traditional

representation of nature in man

made environments. These works

are a combination of digital print

and hand-stitched embroidery.

Anthea Walsh has received a

Crafts Council award for her textile

practice. Her background in fine art

and textile design informs her approach

to making, which often crosses

disciplines. She specialises in large

scale original textile art, translating

direct observational drawing and

occasionally photographic imagery

to traditional and modern

printmaking techniques, embroidery,

collage and mixed media.

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Challenging Textiles 2Ruth DaveySaturday 30 April –

Sunday 22 May

Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm

Saturday 8.30am – 5pm,

8pm – 11pm

Sunday 10am – 3pm

Star Anise Arts Café,

Five Valleys Foyer, Gloucester St.,

Stroud GL5 1QG

Ruth’s exhibition offers a broad

interpretation of textiles through

photography. The chosen images

display a selection from her last

three exhibitions in Stroud:

Challenging Textiles; Elemental

(2009); and Interwoven (2011).

The work is on the whole abstract,

capturing colour and texture,

encapsulating her wanderings

around the Stroud Valleys, Ireland

and The Gambia.

Her more recent work reflects her

questioning of her place in the world,

of her sense of belonging within the

landscape and with the people she

has met along her journey.

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FloribundaGloucestershire Guild of CraftsmenSaturday 30 April –


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The Guild Gallery,

Painswick Centre, Bisley Street,

Painswick GL6 6QQ

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The Guild presents an abundance

of flowers for spring. The gallery is

bursting at the seams with floral

themed textiles during the month of

May. This is an excellent opportunity

to view the breadth and diversity

of the Guild’s many textile artist

members. The pieces on display

will include woven, knitted, stitched,

dyed, printed, mixed-media and

sculptural textiles. This will sit

alongside craftwork from other

Guild members for you to enjoy.

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exhibition exhibitionOut of StroudMade by HandSaturday 30 April –


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Made in Stroud shop,

Kendrick Street Stroud GL5 1AA

Craftwork for sale from nationally

acclaimed artists.

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exhibition talkIn StitchesUnder the Edge ArtsSaturday 30 April –


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The Chipping Hall,

Wotton under Edge GL12 7AD

A group exhibition of local artists

and students working in stitch.

A variety of disciplines will be on

show including illustration and

surface pattern.

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The Craft of Collecting TextilesProfessor Simon Oldingillustrated talk

Saturday 30 April 2pm

Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,

Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF

Simon Olding will give an illustrated

survey of the remarkable textile

collections of the Crafts Study

Centre. He will investigate the

curatorial and historical rationale

behind the founding of the

collections and the Centre’s

inspirational guardians such as

Rita Beales and Ethel Mairet, also

recognising the importance of the

ethnographic collections of the

great weaver Peter Collingwood.

Simon Olding joined the

University for the Creative Arts as

Director of the Crafts Study Centre

in 2002 and was appointed

Professor of Contemporary Crafts in

2003. He is an honorary fellow of

the Arts Institute at Bournemouth,

and writes on craft histories,

ceramics and public art.

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talkCollections and CollectingMary La Trobe-BatemanSaturday 30 April 3.30pm



The crafts offer a great range of

work: everyday things that can be

used for eating, drinking, cooking;

unusual and individual pieces of

jewellery and textiles to wear;

challenging fine art pieces that

stimulate ideas. The real value

of craftwork lies in the individual

maker’s skill, enthusiasm and

judgement – their joy for the object

and for building a collection of

favourite handmade objects.

Mary will talk informally about her

passion for contemporary crafts and

take an anecdotal look at several

collections both private and public.

Mary La Trobe-Bateman is a

freelance applied arts curator,

consultant and lecturer with a

passionate commitment to the

creative arts. In 1994 she was

appointed Director of Contemporary

Applied Arts in London, one of the

UK’s leading galleries for the applied

arts and crafts.


Tilleke SchwarzTilleke lives with her husband and

cat near Delft in the Netherlands.

She exhibits all over the world

in major galleries and museums.

Her work has been published in

magazines and books. She is a

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Making Sense out of the Non Sense of our SocietyTilleke Schwarzillustrated talk

Saturday 30 April 5pm



Tilleke stitches ‘maps of modern

life’ that remind one of graffiti: daily

life, mass media, traditional

samplers, anything that moves and

intrigues her. The result is a

humorous reflection on our modern

society. Her work is a mixture of

content, graphic quality and a bit of

fooling around.

The lecture will be inspiring, full

of images and detail. There will be

detours to explore sources of

inspiration. Tilleke will also talk

about how she likes to work and

favourite techniques. This is a

wonderful opportunity to meet the

artist in an informal atmosphere.

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Saturday 30 April 10am – 3pm


Red Dog Studio, Five Valleys

Foyer, Gloucester Street,

Stroud GL5 1QG

Enjoy the adventure of designing

your own work. The focus of the

workshop is on design, encouraging

originality and innovation. You will

start with exercises in mixed media

and collage, using fast techniques

on paper before exploring some of

Tilleke’s favourite embroidery

techniques and learning to put

image on to cloth. There will be a

mix of hand embroiderery, but

appliqué and drawing are all

incorporated into this fascinating

and inspiring workshop. You will

start your own work so bring

threads and cloth. Anyone with a

love of stitch can participate, there

is no special skill required – just an

open mind and a sense of humour!


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Sunday 1 May 11.30am



Sculptor weaver Sue Hiley Harris’

talk will outline the development of

her highly distinctive work. Based

on her profound understanding

of yarns and weaving, her sculpture

also draws upon her experience of

the sea and of the landscape of the

Brecon Beacons National Park,

the study of science and geometry

and, more recently, intense

investigation of her British and

Australian ancestry.

Brought up in Brisbane, Australia,

she has lived in Wales since 1981

and has exhibited her woven

sculpture internationally to

considerable acclaim. Levels, Crags

and her recently completed Square

End series using indigo-dyed paper

yarn can be seen at the Museum,

and demonstrate her restless

exploration of woven structures.


TracesJessica Turrell illustrated talk

Sunday 1 May 2.30 pm



Jessica Turrell is a jeweller and artist

who has specialised in the use of

vitreous enamel for more than two

decades. Over recent years she has

developed an experimental approach

by which she seeks to create work

that moves away from traditional

enamel jewellery practice in order to

achieve a more ambiguous and

expressive material quality.

This talk will outline Jessica’s

studio practice and the themes and

concerns that underpin her work

with particular emphasis on the body

of work Traces that is on display as

part of the Festival, and which forms

part of an ongoing exploration of the

relationship between memory and

the portrait photograph.


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Sunday 1 May 4pm



Simon Packard is a sculptor and

printmaker whose work – both

printmaking and detailed metalwork

in stainless steel – is influenced by

his enjoyment of patterns found in

textiles and other 2D artefacts,

many seen at the Pitt Rivers

Museum and Ashmolean Museum

during his time as a researcher at

the University of Oxford Museum

Service (2004-2006). The illustrated

talk will show the stages from

research to realisation of large scale

outdoor sculpture commissions,

and how woodcuts develop from

sketch to limited print. Simon will

discuss the resulting online archive

of this time.

Simon is also exhibiting his work

at Ecotricity, 7 Russell Street, Stroud.


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SchemaFiona HainesTuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May

8.30am – 5pm

closed weekends & Bank Holidays

Ecotricity, 7 Russell Street,

Stroud, GL5 3AX

Schema is an exploration into

colour, line, texture and the

psychological effect on the viewer

when the work is encapsulated and

unable to be touched. The work

utilises man-made engineered

materials often discarded as

by-products of packaging.

Fiona Haines explores the quality

of the line of the stitch and its ability

to float and travel between layers

creating an optical illusion. Using

the repetitive hypnotic rhythm of

brightly coloured silk stitches she

provides a harmonious chord linking

tradition and innovation.

Fiona’s work is sophisticated,

gentle and poetic, exploring the

issue of touch in a sensitive and

reserved manner.

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Art ShowcaseStroud College studentsTuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May

10am – 4pm


The Glass Box Gallery, Stroud

College Foyer, Stratford Road,

Stroud GL5 4AH

Students from the Art School at

Stroud College have produced work

that explores the boundaries

between ceramics and textiles.

There is a wide range of outcomes:

figurative, mixed media, a play on

buttons, work that addresses ideas

of wrapping and binding.

The exhibition is guaranteed to

refresh expectations and celebrate

creative potential through a cross

disciplinary approach.

Students will curate the show

as an opportunity to engage in

professional practice.

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8.30am – 5pm



Stroud, GL5 3AX

Portraits: Textile Trail are a series of

images taken by Stroud based

professional photographer

Alexander Caminada of the artists

and studios involved with the 2011

Textile Trail. Alex has captured the

people and their spaces with a

distinctive gritty style.

A series of prints are on display in

the new Ecotricity reception in

Russell Street, Stroud. The Textile

Trail catalogue, designed by Chris J

Bailey, will exclusively show Alex’s

images and will be an informative

and stunning record of this event.

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Black FlourSimon PackardTuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May

8.30am – 5pm



Stroud, GL5 3AX

The installation of Simon’s sculpture

in the lakes in the Ruskin Mill valley

in Nailsworth, Black Flour, is the

inspiration behind his work here.

His woodblock prints and plasma

cut metal work will be the subject of

his talk at the Museum in the Park

on Sunday 1 May.

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10am – 2.30pm

Museum in the Park, Stratford

Park, Stroud GL5 4AF

A fabulous opportunity for primary

school pupils to have a go at

tapestry weaving under the expert

tuition of Caroline Marriott and

Diane Wood from The Big Weave.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

Call 01453 763394

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Sunday 8 May 12 noon – 5pm

See FREE Textile Trail guide

Enjoy going from studio to studio

and seeing where artists work.

This is a great opportunity to meet

the makers and buy direct.

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The Big Weave Drop In Drop in day Saturday 7 May 11am – 4.30pm

Museum in the Park,


Come along to the Museum and

discover the wonders of weaving

and try your hands at weaving on

The Big Weave Community Loom.

Everyone welcome.

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Sunday 8 May 11am - 5pm

Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF

Hosted by Laura Thomas, this day of talks will celebrate

some of the innovative applications and aesthetic

explorations in contemporary weave practice.

With a respectful nod to tradition, the invited speakers

are all forging new ground within the fashion, science,

furnishings and art spheres taking weave into dynamic new

arenas. From e-textiles to art for architectural spaces, each

speaker is a pioneer in their discipline and is taking their

expertise into unexpected arenas. The seminar will give

plenty of opportunity for discussion, debate and exploration.

“Given our strong links with the Stroud valleys as an

employer and the fact that several of our sites have

historic connections with textile manufacturing, we are

pleased to support the International Textile Festival.

As a company founded on engineering innovation,

we are also very interested in the increasing

application of engineering principles within specialist

textile development.”

Chris Pockett Marketing Manager, Renishaw plc

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design consultant. Well known for

her trademark encapsulation of

delicate textile structures in acrylic

resin, recent significant

commissions include a Museumaker

project to design a triptych window

for The Beaney Museum and Art

Gallery in Canterbury and a vessel

presented to Cricket Australia from

the Welsh Assembly Government to

commemorate the Ashes being

played in Cardiff in 2009. A recipient

of a Creative Wales Ambassador

Award from the Arts Council of

Wales, Laura is currently developing

new bodies of work in residence at

the Ruthin Craft Centre.

11.45amAsha Peta Thompson is a

founding partner of Intelligent

Textiles Ltd (ITL) along with Stan

Swallow. Asha is an expert in woven

technical textiles, specifically

electronically active ‘e-textiles’.

The ITL patented processes have

been applied to many products and

principles, from heated bedding to

iPod connected garments. Recent

press coverage has focussed on

their partnering with the Ministry of

Defence to develop embedded

technical functionality into military

clothing, predominantly as a

replacement for conventional cables

in soldier systems.

lunch break

2pmKirsty McDougall is one half of

Dashing Tweeds, Britain’s latest

tweed textile company. Opening up

a contemporary arena for a classic

quality fabric, Dashing Tweeds has

created a range of tweeds for the

21st century, designed by

photographer Guy Hills and weaver

Kirsty McDougall. Quirky colour

palettes, inventive yarn combinations

and sophisticated tactile qualities

have taken the traditional tweed into

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architectural colour consultant.

Renowned for her impeccable eye

for colour, Ptolemy produces

striking ikat dyed woven artworks

for corporate, commercial and

domestic spaces, which have been

exhibited and specified all over the

world. Working with a UK

manufacturer, she has also recently

added limited edition mill woven

cloth to her repertoire, suitable for

cushions, drapes and other

applications. Ptolemy is also in

demand as an architectural colour

consultant, bringing vibrant palettes

to the usually colour-shy world of

external facades, as well as devising

internal colour schemes for

healthcare environments to aid way

finding and psychological well being.

£40/£35 students & Friends of SIT

There is not a café at the Museum

but a light lunch of sandwiches

and salad/sweet may be ordered

when booking at the additional

cost of £5 a head. Coffee & teas will

be served at lunchtime.

particular note is their LumaTwill™

range which is a fusion of technical

sportswear with elegant tweed

cloth. Light reflective yarns

punctuate the woollen checks, so

when worn at night it illuminates as

light hits the fabric.

2.45pmMelissa French, artist, designer

and coordinator of the Puff & Flock

textile collective. Melissa’s practice

sees her span the commercial and

conceptual sphere. A graduate of

the renowned MA Textile Futures at

Central St Martins, Melissa has

garnered a reputation for work that

questions the expected application

of woven textiles. Her Urban

Upholstery concept takes textiles

beyond decoration. This time-based

work integrates various metals in

her woven fabrics to enable them to

endure time and weather whilst

evolving through natural rusting or

oxidising. Inspired by graffiti, urban

guerrilla movements and traditional

interior textiles and design, Melissa

wants to bring an element of beauty,

pattern, design, and ultimately

surprise to the urban landscape.


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Costume Study Day with Marta CockThursday 12 May

10.30am – 12.30pm & 2pm – 4pm

Museum in the Park,

Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF

A rare chance to join a costume

expert and dress designer,

Marta Cock, to study 18th and 19th

Century costumes and fabrics from

the Museum’s collections which are

too fragile and delicate for public

display. Discover the stories

revealed by exquisite silk dresses,

once worn by local ladies in the

1700s and 1800s.

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If you visit Dorothy Reglar’s

workshop in Cirencester, you will

see elegance, fine detail and the

strength of subtle understatement.

Dorothy designs and makes

beautiful clothes. However, for her

the journey begins much earlier,

the texture and the origin of the

cloth itself is her starting point.

Her search for the right fabrics has

taken her to Northern Thailand and

to Laos, where she has made many

contacts, including a close working

relationship with a silk farm. Dorothy

will show and discuss a range of her

work, and film-maker Pip Heywood

will introduce a short film which tells

her story.

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A special Museums at Night evening

where you are invited to explore the

fascinating Museum collections and

historic Mansion House by night.

The Gallery will also be open late,

showcasing cutting edge

contemporary work by artists taking

part in the Stroud International

Textile Festival. There will be talks

and surprise entertainment for all

to enjoy. Everyone welcome.

Admission free to Museum

and exhibitions. Tea, coffee and

wine bar.

In partnership with Stroud

International Textiles Festival

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The Language of AlSadu Weaving Dr Keireine Canavan6.30pm

AlSadu is an ancient Bedouin tribal

weaving art form, which in its

broadest linguistic identity is

rhythmically linked to poetry,

memory, the weaving practice,

the extension of the hand, and the

graceful moving pace of a camel.

AlSadu weaving conveys the

Bedouin’s rich heritage and instinctive

awareness of natural beauty, with

patterns and designs that

communicate the nomadic lifestyle,

the desert environment and the

emphasis of symmetry and balance.

Quoted from recorded interviews,

the lecture will discuss whether

names and definitions are personal

testimony only to the weaver who

created them, or whether the

language of AlSadu has been lost in

modern day Kuwait, appreciated only

for its traditional aesthetic values.


Pleated and Folded: The Unique Traditional Skirts of South West ChinaMartin Conlan of Slow Loris Textiles8pm

As a regular textile traveller to South

West China, Martin Conlan of Slow

Loris Textiles will talk about and

show examples of the beautiful and

unique pleated skirts of the ethnic

minority people from the region. The

cultural identity and mythology of

various groups like the Miao, Yi,

Dong, Buyi, Zhuang and Gejia are

tied up in the rich designs and highly

skilled textile techniques that go into

their making. Martin Conlan is a

leading authority on Chinese textiles.


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World Textile WeekendDirected by Polly LysterSaturday 14 May 9.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 15 May 10.30am – 4pm

Bisley Village Hall, Manor Road, Bisley, Stroud GL6 7BQ

In the attractive Cotswold village of Bisley the village hall

is transformed into a paradise of colour, texture and

pattern. Stalls are piled high with fabulous textiles, clothes,

quilts, hangings and all manner of decorative textiles for

sale. Enjoy the fair and meet the people who travel the

world and collect these beautiful things.

John Gillow

African and South East Asian textiles

Martin Conlan

Tribal textiles and costume pieces from South China.

Burnished indigo specialist

Elizabeth Baer

Rustic linens and furnishings from provincial France

Polly Lyster

Hand dyed antique French linen and hemp

Barbie Campbell Cole

Jackets, scarves and ethnic jewellery

Lucy Farmer-Zeitgeist

Vintage textiles from Gujarat and Rajasthan

Fuji Maeda

Japanese textiles and kimonos

Linda Clift & Lizzi Drake

French and English textiles, quilts, trimmings, braid,

early costumes

Admission £1.50 accompanied children free

Flaming Fig café serving delicious refreshments all day

There is limited parking in the village.

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Vintage Textile FairSaturday 14 May 10am – 3.30pm

Subscription Rooms,

George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE

All day sale of vintage fashions and

textiles from the 1800’s to the

1980’s. Organised by Ashley Fairs.

Admission £3 adults/£2 students,

accompanied children free

The Big Screen: Tapestry as an early animated art form Jenny Bandillustrated talk

Saturday 14 May 11.30am


Stratford Park, Stroud GL 5 4AF

Jenny Band is a historian of material

culture. In the 1970’s she was

apprenticed to the last of the

weaver restorers from Morris & Co,

at that time based in Hampton

Court Palace. She later took over

the studio management and

developed the archaic workshops

into the cutting-edge Textile

Conservation Studio and laboratory

which has preserved some of the

UK’s most iconic historic tapestries.

Always conscious that modern

audiences were missing their full

meanings, Jenny will explain how

the context in which tapestries were

produced differs radically from our

modern-day view of them. She will

show how figurative tapestries were

perceived by their contemporary

audiences as a life-like and almost

magical form of art, rivalling the

impact of television in our age.

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Transparent BoundariesLesley Millar illustrated talk

Saturday 14 May 3pm



‘If space has boundaries, is

there another space outside

those boundaries?’

Lesley Millar has been a practising

weaver since 1975 and has work in

the permanent collections of both

the Crafts Council and Arts Council

England. She has exhibited

internationally and is Director of the

Anglo Japanese Textile Research

Centre at the University for

Creative Arts.

Lesley will discuss her current

exhibition project which will feature

an international cohort of artists,

designers and architects who are all

investigating the relationship

between lace net-works and space.

Net-works are both complete units

in themselves and also represent an

unending series of connections,

surrounding but not enclosing

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Saturday 14 May 1pm



Lynsay Shephard has been working

in the field of textile conservation for

over thirty years. After a two year

apprenticeship in Tapestry

Restoration under the last of the

Morris & Co restorers at Hampton

Court Palace, she specialised in

tapestry conservation. In 2004 she

became Head of Tapestry

Conservation for Historic Royal

Palaces, managing the permanent

display of Royal Collection Tapestries.

In 2004 Lynsay established

Shephard Travis Textile

Conservation. She continues to

lecture, train and teach.

Lynsay’s talk will describe

weaving techniques, tapestry

structure and history, and the care

and preservation of these

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Saturday 14 May 5pm



Alice Kettle will talk about The

Pairings Project which was set up

to explore the potential of

collaboration. It was initiated to

make new work, to engage in

conversation and to establish links.

The participants came from a variety

of backgrounds engaging with

materials ranging from textiles, clay,

glass, metal, wood or paper to new

technologies. A variety of responses

emerged all of which were revelatory

in some form.

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project has provided an impetus for

the growing discourse about craft

practice, the breaking down of

boundaries and the cross

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Workshop Day Studio Seven workshop


The Textile Studio, SVA,

John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Spend a day working with the

Studio Seven artists on their new

project, the WEAVE experiment.

Contribute to the project by

creating textile responses to the

theme of weave and woven cloth

produced in the Stroud Valleys’

mills. Work alongside the artists to

create elements which will be

featured in future events of the

WEAVE experiment.

Dedicated to a collaborative and

interactive creative practice, Studio

Seven has developed a series of

projects in which the public has

played a key role – including Textiles

in Performance, Make Do & Mend

and Cut 2 On Fold.

The Textile Studio is equipped

with a 30-metre print table, screens

and squeegees for silk-screen

printing, blocks for block printing,

steamer and dye-lab.

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Sunday 15 May 12 noon



Tim will reflect on his project work

for the University of Dundee’s Past,

Present & Future Craft Practice:

Craft Commission (2008-10). This

involved a concentrated period of

woven textiles practice informed by

knowledge of (and towards

application with), specialist industrial

production methodologies, realised

through intensive studio making.

The talk will describe an

exploration of ‘distress and

distortion’, ‘reflection and

refraction’, and the relationships

between visual and tactile surface

characteristics and relative cloth

‘handle’, through new materials,

paper and digital planning, hand-

weaving and finishing, and the final

production of a group of new

‘Prototype’ cloths.


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Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 May

10am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 4pm

Red Dog Studio, Foyer Arts,

Gloucester Street Stroud GL5 1QG

You will be warmly welcomed to

rediscover your skills and contribute

to the stitching on a single flame for

an Olympic torch banner that will be

assembled and put together for the

Cultural Olympics.

The banners will hang at two

venues along Commercial Road in

Tales of Trade Told in Textiles; a

series of ten exhibitions near the

Olympic site in London, in 2012.

You can also embroider and quilt

your own needle case to assemble

and take away.

There will also be a display of

samples from the topiary hedge

exhibited at Kensington Palace, and

photographs of Stitches In Time

past projects to look at.

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Sunday 15 May 1.30pm



This illustrated talk charts the

acceleration of millinery fashion

through the 20th Century. Journey

from one turn of the century to the

next – from flower and feather laden

Edwardian hats, through wartime

austerity, the flapper’s cloche,

Schiaparelli’s trompe l’oeil shoe

hats, 40’s military styles, the

Nostalgic New Look, 60’s street

wear, Laura Ashley romanticism, late

century minimalism, ending up with

the flamboyance and wit of

contemporary headpieces.

Sarah Cant is a milliner and textile

artist. She teaches millinery at

Kensington and Chelsea College

and West Dean College and is a

member of

Studio Seven

Textile artists.

£5 (£12 for all

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Gardening with Silk: Introduction to Arts and Crafts Movement EmbroideryMary Greenstedillustrated talk

Sunday 15 May 3pm



In 1881 William Morris, designer,

poet and socialist, described

embroidery as ‘gardening with silk’.

It was one of the many crafts he

was to practise, master and pass

on to others including Janey, his

wife, and his daughter May,

inspiring many others to take it up

as both amateurs and professionals.

This illustrated talk will look at the

character of Arts and Crafts

embroidery and the work of

individuals with links to the

Cotswolds such as Ernest Gimson,

Louise Powell and Eve Simmonds.

Mary Greensted is chairperson of

the Gloucestershire Guild and

author of ‘The Arts and Crafts

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SIT Studio, Five Valleys Foyer,

Gloucester Street,

Stroud GL5 1QG

By popular demand artist, illustrator

and maker Imogen Harvey-Lewis

shares some of her secrets in the

making of Soons. Soons are hand

crafted pocket sized creatures made

from odd socks. They are simple,

quirky and are very well behaved.

Join Imogen in this fun making

workshop and learn how to make a

range of loveable sock friends. Turn

your socks into weird and wonderful

creatures with a little bit of help and

a whole lot of inventiveness.

Ideal for people of all ages, families

and children over 7. All children

under 10 must be accompanied by

an adult. Bring old socks, all other

materials will be provided.

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Hooky & Clippy Mats Jenni Stuart-Andersonrag rug workshop

Wednesday 18 May 10am – 4pm

Proggy & Plaited Mats Jenni Stuart-Anderson rag rug workshop

Thursday 19 May 10am – 4pm

Gallery 2, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,

Stroud GL5 4AF

Learn how to recycle old clothes into unique projects using

traditional techniques and tools. On Wednesday we will

cover hooking and progging, and on Thursday plaiting

(braiding) and progging. Come to one day or two.

You could make a small project, start a rug or customise a

hessian bag which makes a decorative and useful sampler.

Bring scissors and rags (more details when you book).

£45/£40 concessions

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Sue Rangeley2 day workshop


Sunday 22 May 11am – 4.30pm



This workshop offers a fusion of

design and creative embroidery

with techniques to inspire fashion

textiles and artful embellishments.

Inspired by displays of unique

samples and designs, students will

explore a range of processes which

will include machine stitched lace

using soluble stabilisers, appliqué

and cutwork sheers, fabric

manipulation and machine

embroidered textures. Sue

Rangeley’s textiles have featured in

numerous publications. Her first

book Embroidered Originals was

published in 2010.

A full materials and equipment

list will be provided on enrolment.

Materials will be available to

purchase in class.


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Fashioned by StitchSue Rangeleyillustrated talk

Saturday 21 May 5pm



‘Nature and nostalgia continue

to infuse the language of my

embroidery, with fashion influencing

a diversity of form and context.’

In Sue Rangeley’s intricate

embroideries the art of stitch freely

explores the dimensions of fashion.

The recent collection of machine

stitched lace textiles pursues an

intricate path, challenging a

wearable art into more abstract

concepts. The talk will focus on the

creative story, sharing the visions

and passions of her research.

Botanical references intertwine with

vintage fashion; Sue’s fine art

studies are the inspiration for these

unique textiles.

There will be signed copies of

Sue’s book Embroidered Originals

for sale.

£5

Off the Page: Developing Ideas in Three Dimensions Jessica Turrell2 day workshop



Red Dog Studio, Foyer Arts,

Gloucester Street,

Stroud GL5 1QG

This dynamic two day workshop will

focus on techniques for the

generation of ideas and design

concepts using found materials and

mixed media. Students will develop

ideas in three dimensions as a

starting point for the creation of

jewellery and small objects, and

have the opportunity to experiment,

explore and play.

Jessica Turrell is a maker, jeweller

and teacher of many years’

experience. She uses the medium

of vitreous enamel to explore the

relationship between memory and

the portrait photograph.

Jessica has work in the WordPlay

exhibition in the Festival.

A full materials and equipment list

will be provided on enrolment.


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Back to BackCotswold WoolgatherersSaturday 21 May 9am –

until finished

Abbey Home Farm, Burford Road,

Cirencester GL7 5HF

For the third year we will hand shear,

hand spin and hand knit a sweater.

From sheep’s back to man’s back in

a day. Following previous attempts

in 2009 and 2010 as part of the SIT

Festival, this year the challenge will

be indoors at Abbey Home Farm in

Cirencester, with the Lleyn sheep

bred on the farm.

During the day 1,000 grams of

yarn will be spun and knitted

following the Back to Back pattern.

Last year it was completed in 10

hours and 10 minutes raising £450

for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Come and watch the team in

action, visit the café and farm shop

and help support the Macmillan and

Back to Back team.

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Saturday 21 May 9pm – 3am

end of festival party

Foyer Arts Hall, Five Valleys Foyer,

Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG

Dancing from 9pm till 3am with live on stage

the most excellent Piccadilly Bullfrogs

Presenting The Piccadilly Bullfrogs, lovingly hand crafted

from only the finest vintage components, DJ Pavinyl spins

the rare dance tunes that will keep you on the floor.

A small band with a powerful, compelling sound and a

remarkable pedigree, the many original artists they have

worked with on stage and in the recording studio speaks

volumes (including their own successful and well known

Big Beat R ’n R creation The Stargazers), legends such as

Bill Haley’s Comets, Freddie Bell, D.J. Fontana and

The Jordanaires to name just a few.

The Piccadilly Bullfrogs build their sound around the

style that would later be dubbed Rockabilly. And like those

ground-breaking progenitors of R ’n R, this is a trio sans

drum, the only instruments being string bass, two guitars

and occasionally a washboard for those moments when

nothing but a good old fashioned scrub will do.

Enough chit chat! Get hip you crazy twistin’ tadpoles,

and get on down to the Shindig at the Foyer Arts Hall.

Tickets in advance from Trading Post £5 or £6 on the door

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Wearable Art Painswick is an all-inclusive competition welcoming anyone with imagination to go head-to-head with creative talent from across the land. Entrants can win fabulous prizes and gain recognition from their peers. Open to all, the event is about fun, glamour, style and creativity.

To coincide with SIT Festival, costumes from the hugely successful 2010 event are on display in Stroud.

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Stroud International TextilesFive Valleys Foyer, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG

t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607


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01453 751056 and either sending a cheque to the SIT

office made out to Stroud International Textiles, including

your name, address, phone and email. Or you can book

and pay on line: www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk

Ticket Prices The Festival makes every attempt to make the entrance to

all paid events as affordable to as many people as

possible. Students and Friends of SIT get reduced prices,

see brochure for details. For information on joining SIT

please go to our website where you can join on line or send

a cheque. Please be prepared to show your membership

card when booking, or on admission to events.

Events InformationDuring the Festival the stewards will be able to help you if

you have any queries. To find out more, do email or contact

the Festival office. t: 01453 751056 or

e-mail: [email protected]

Getting to Stroud see map on page 59

Train and bus stations are in the town centre. For more

information contact Stroud Tourist Information Centre.

Stroud Tourist Information CentreSubscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE

t: 01453 760960 e: [email protected]


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Liability

The organisers of the Festival cannot accept liability for

any damage, injury or loss sustained by any member of

the public visiting any of the events or exhibitions

Festival BooksChrome Yellow Books, Sonia and Michael Collins, will be

bringing all the latest international publications as well as

books by the artists and speakers at the Festival. They

source unusual catalogues and publications as well as the

more well known favourites.

AccommodationFor a full list of accommodation contact the Tourist

Information Centre. The SIT website also has names of

B & B’s under visitor information.

The Imperial Hotel in Stroud centre next to the railway is

offering a 15% discount to all who book through the

Festival: www.theimperialstroud.co.uk

Eating & DrinkingThere are many cafes in the town centre and restaurants

where you can enjoy a meal. Also on the outskirts of the

town you will find places to dine and enjoy the countryside.

Cheltenham Music FestivalSIT is pleased to be exhibiting the work of two textile

artists in the Cheltenham Music Festival at the Parabola Art

Centre in Cheltenham in June. It Takes Two will have work

by Anna Glasbrook and Sue Hiley Harris. .

The HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival takes place

between 29 June and 10 July. With music ranging from

medieval times to the modern day and a host of talented

performers the festival promises something for everyone.

Full programme details and booking are available from

early April at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music

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t: 01453 763394



closed Mondays

The Museum is half a mile from Stroud town centre.

Parking: Parking is in the main car park beside the

Leisure Centre off the Stratford Road. There is then a short

walk to the Museum. Disability parking is available by

phoning the Museum, they will arrange for you to drive

round to the entrance.

Buses: The number 37 Stagecoach bus leaves the town

centre from outside Lloyds Bank every 20 minutes. Ask for

the Tesco/Museum stop, and cross the road and walk a

short distance through the Park.

Stroud Town Centre Venues

Lansdown Hall, Lansdown GL5 1BN t: 01453 767576

George Room, Subscription Rooms GL5 1AE

t: 01453 760960

Kendrick Street Gallery GL5 1AA t: 01453 756936

Parking: There are many pay and display car parks around

the town, all offering some disability spaces. Fawkes’

Place, close to the George Room (Subscription Rooms) is

disabled parking.

Disability access

It is wise to ring the venues and check before you come.

Lansdown Hall, Kendrick Street Gallery and Foyer Arts

Hall are the only venues without disability access.

Stroud International TextilesFive Valleys Foyer, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG

t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607


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Acknowledgments We would like to give a huge thank you to our Festival

Patron – Mary La Trobe Bateman – who has spent a

lifetime supporting the applied arts and for her invaluable

support for the Textile Festival throughout the year.

The SIT Festival would like to give a special thank you to

Abigail Large, the administrator at the Museum. Abigail

works tirelessly for the Museum and for the arts in the town.

Special thanks to John & Maggie Mills, James & Owen,

Matthew Harris, Cleo Mussi, Alan & Jane Ford, Bailey

Curtis, John Spayne, James Showers and Pamela Woods

and the many individuals who have donated to SIT.

Our patrons in particular have enabled the Festival to go

from strength to strength. Thank you to:

Gold Patron Renishaw plc

Silver Patrons Stroud Brewery, Imperial Hotel

And for in kind support which is so crucial to deliver a

successful festival of this size we would like to thank again

the Museum in the Park, Ecotricity, Star Anise Arts Café,

Kendrick Street Gallery, and all the many shops who

have offered their premises so generously for the

Student Collective.

We are grateful to the Arts Council England Grants for the

Arts, Stroud District Council and Stroud Town Council.

And last but not least we want to thank the Festival

committee and all the many volunteers and stewards who

give so generously of their time.

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