Side by side in the photo above are both English Gardens and English Robins about to make there way to the Danish Weaving Festival at Jyderup, Denmark, tomorrow in time for the exhibition (9-10 June 2018). They are my homage to the mid-century Swedish rug designer and weaver Irma Kronlund. I love her designs and especially the design called Rödhake…
I’m writing this in great haste as I pack for travel to Denmark tomorrow. I am taking lots of my handwoven lambswool throws to display in an exhibition of my work alongside the work of tapestry weaver, Joan Baxter and rug weaver, Colleen Pope. But before I go I thought you might like to see the new pieces I shall…
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…