Its not often that you feel you have met your perfect match, but this autumn I certainly met mine… stylistically speaking. Deputy Home and Style Editor at Country Living, Alaina Binks, approached me last autumn with a request to borrow a couple of throws she had seen on the website for a photo shoot for the Spring 2018 edition of…
Handmade UK – Exhibition – at “Weave Festival – Denmark 2018” – 9 to 10 June, West Zealand, DK
16th March 2018
I shall be travelling to Denmark again this summer to take part in an exhibition of work – Handmade UK – by three British weavers, as part of the Weaving Festival – Denmark 2018 in West Zealand. Scottish tapestry weaver, Joan Baxter, will be exhibiting some of her work, Devon Weavers Workshop member, Colleen Pope, will be showing a selection of…
There are times when life is just too busy and things get left behind, Sharing some photos of the finished Russian Jumper is one of those things that time forgot. Until today when I went to put it on and thought,,, its now or never… and took it down to my garden studio, hung it on a pole and took…
Monksbelt or munkabälte is one of the oldest of patterned European textiles and is thought to have originated in Malmöhus County in Sweden – now part of Skåne in the very southernmost tip of Sweden. Whether you can say it is a Swedish textile or not is debatable though, Malmöhus County having for many centuries formed part of Denmark. One…
Drawing its inspiration from Swedish mid century rugs woven by the great women weavers of that period, this is a stunning piece of workmanship – so beautiful that I have finished it such that it can be hung as a piece of textile art when not in use. I know I am saying this myself but it really is just…
I’ve just come back from a splendid week in Cornwall taking a short break and also making a video about Trevose Head with the South West Regional National Trust to assist with its fundraising efforts for the Trevose Head Campaign. The footage is currently being edited but while we wait I thought I might just share with you a short…