tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289987582024-03-06T05:07:05.216+00:00TEXTILE 21Creative textile group exhibiting regularly in the North West of England.
We are Sue Reeve, Elsa Buch, Hayley Watkins, Armelle Hatch, Linda Izan, Margaret Steeden, Denise Williams, Terri Jones, Norma Hopkins, Jackie Brough, Janet Grimes, Beverley Elliot, Sophie Ho, Susan Darby, Doreen Dames-Caldwell and Nabila Nagi.
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Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-67532783485619180502016-11-02T23:22:00.001+00:002016-11-02T23:22:19.127+00:00Play DayThe results of our play day.<div>Thinking about "Fading" "decay" "alteration" "weathering" just some of the words that prompted our play in preparation for our next exhibition at Ordsall Hall, Salford.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCa98O4sR6TghDmNZQ_DmR-0ZAN7oRcBfS05kpIIwySZZAFVMQEzKmenfhqdCCbbQj8UtTaHY8-ce0fMsJ2Nlgm6ph9R4W_C2daEADmZ9Fu6-qf46NC2TyY9PkfNwbLelkO0a/s640/blogger-image-1883525360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCa98O4sR6TghDmNZQ_DmR-0ZAN7oRcBfS05kpIIwySZZAFVMQEzKmenfhqdCCbbQj8UtTaHY8-ce0fMsJ2Nlgm6ph9R4W_C2daEADmZ9Fu6-qf46NC2TyY9PkfNwbLelkO0a/s640/blogger-image-1883525360.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-k4skCmzbf_ElWhtcFdB_18YN_2-qt1xwHRyHS7lkfIj8Gs7p68BNb4NYFjMWFq6hn2a5gZtpITP85A-R8pY2j8RFKwBjyimolKZ44NgC1yV04aFD0T5TmKijTaxsHyAO6AA/s640/blogger-image-784655586.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Don't just take our word for it! Here are some FANTASTIC reviews for our current exhibition 'Light Fantastic' at the World of Glass in st Helens.</div>
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"Lovely exhibition and some very talented artists"</div>
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"Well worth a visit"</div>
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"Gorgeous exp"</div>
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"Enjoyed all of it especially Bev Elliott and Sophie"</div>
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"An absolute delight"</div>
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"Some wonderful artwork"</div>
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"Loved your work Armelle"</div>
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"Amazing, thanks for making me want to stitch and play again"</div>
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"Inspiring! Such originality"</div>
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"Fantastic exhibition - such imagination"</div>
HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-88540066010410911382016-09-24T12:00:00.000+01:002016-09-24T12:00:16.301+01:00Linda Izan and her inspiration for World of Glass<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">At the Private View of 'Light Fantastic', Linda Izan went to find the young female glassblower, Niki Steele, who had been her inspiration for the work '100 years - The Glassblower' </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">"I thanked her for her part in the development of the work and we discussed the important contribution that women have made and continue to make in the production of glass in Pilkington’s. The work that I produced spans a 100 year period starting with World War 1 and the contribut</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.32px;">ion to the industry in a time of war and then arriving at Niki Steele’s glassblowing skills in the present time."</span></div>
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The images show Linda with Niki, part of the finished piece and photographs taken during its creation. Exhibition on until the 4th November at the World of Glass, St Helens.</div>
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HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-59238138526233900892016-09-22T16:00:00.000+01:002016-09-22T16:00:07.282+01:00Light Fantastic Private View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: justify;">Light Fantastic at the World of Glass opened on Saturday 3rd September and is open to all until the 4th November. The exhibition is free to enter, and the World of Glass has lots of entertainment on offer for a fun filled family day out.</span></div>
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In this post we share with you pictures from the day from Textile 21 artists Nabila, Armelle and Susan. Textile21 artists have taken their own inspiration from the collection of artifacts, art and the history of the World of Glass museum and created unique artworks which each tell their own story. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Darby created 3 pieces for Light Fantastic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nabila's wire work</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Darby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Armelle's piece welcomes you to enter the exhibition</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda and Elsa admire one of the artists work</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Armelle Hatch</td></tr>
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HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0St Helens Presbytery, Alexandra Rd, Waterloo, Liverpool L23 7TA, UK53.4896313 -3.032997199999954353.4894838 -3.0333121999999544 53.489778799999996 -3.0326821999999543tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-89055406787729814072016-09-19T17:50:00.000+01:002016-09-19T17:52:33.125+01:00Denise Williams' work and inspiration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I joined textile 21 to meet like-minded people and to exhibit my work.</div>
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I studied sculpture at College and afterwards tried pottery, life drawing, oil, watercolours and batik.</div>
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After doing C&G Embroidery parts 1 & 2, I taught these courses to adults.</div>
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I was a founder member of the group 10+ Textiles. Between leaving 10+ Textiles and joining Textile 21 I worked alone and exhibited work in open competitions and craft shows.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denise's pieces at the World of Glass</td></tr>
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Handling fabrics as a child, making dolls clothes and later my own clothes was my introduction to textiles. I became interested in embroidery after seeing an Embroiderers Guild Exhibition. I joined the Embroiderers Guild and was inspired by the talks and examples of embroidery that I saw there.</div>
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I love interpreting my artwork and solving design problems. I enjoy drawing and using art materials to obtain the effect I am looking for. I then interpret the artwork in textiles. I enjoy putting colours together and merging contrasting colours for different visual effects.</div>
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Representational and also abstract. </div>
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Cottons, transparent organza, fabric paints, drawing pen.</div>
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My photographs or drawings of my surroundings either natural or man made.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The group photo! All looking very relieved that we made it to the PV!</td></tr>
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You can see Denise's piece's until 4th November at World of Glass in St Helen's, along with all of the other wonderful work by the Textile 21 group.</div>
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HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-73253260879956716552016-08-19T12:35:00.000+01:002016-08-19T12:35:23.030+01:002 weeks until the Private View for Light Fantastic, here's what the designers have all been up to...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the private view and opening of Light Fantastic just over 2 weeks away, the designers have all been very busy finishing off their work for the exhibition at World of Glass in St Helens. Please enjoy this picture post, and do come along to view the exhibition if you can. It runs from Saturday 3rd September to 4th November.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from Hayley's piece 'Broken'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stitch detail of just one of Janet's pieces</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful wire work from Nabila</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shards of perspex and light on Susan's piece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Armelle's drawn ideas and tin of goodies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doreen's beautiful drawings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from Bev's alien like flowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful colour and stitch here by Linda</td></tr>
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HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-32432750449521807772016-07-20T18:35:00.000+01:002016-07-20T19:05:44.300+01:00An interview with Textile 21 member Terri<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another chance for our readers to learn more about the designers who make up Textile 21. This time, it is Terri who will be answering my questions...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terri with her 'Fashioned in Silk' creation</td></tr>
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<b>So Terri, when did you join Textile 21?</b><br />
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I joined the group 10 years ago. Time has passed so quickly!<br />
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I grew up in the post war era. Even if you had money (which we didn’t) there was nothing to buy. My father made everything. Nothing was thrown away. It was either mended or turned into something else. Not only did he create our furniture when we moved into a council house but made a child sized house for me at the bottom of our garden long before Wendy houses were even heard of. He used scrap wood and apple boxes. It was completely furnished with arm chairs, dining table and chairs and even a washing machine and ironing board, all made to scale by him. He could work with metal as well as wood. He also made many of our clothes and was probably my biggest influence. It was natural for me to ask for a piece of fabric to make my own dress. Fabric was cheap. Clothes were dear.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terri's studio at home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very sneaky peak at one of Terri's designs for 'Light Fantastic'</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I created most of my own clothes for years until, during my first career as a Psychiatric Social Worker, I studied City and Guilds Fashion out of interest and a desire to create my own patterns. Probably a little bit of my father’s perfectionism and quest for quality was rubbing off as well. I didn’t start to use my skills to earn money until I had had my children. As the children grew I trained as a teacher and taught fashion in adult education for more than 20 years. While teaching, I took C&G Embroidery to extend my skills and after retiring began to exhibit with Textile 21.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I come from a line of craftsmen and I have always been a maker. I don’t have a choice. I have a compulsion to make things and get itchy fingers if I am separated from my sewing machine for too long. Fabric, whether new, used or a remnant, remains a source of inspiration. I particularly enjoy working with natural fibres. The various elements of my background come together in the work.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketchbook for 'Light Fantastic'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terri has been sewing with plastics for 'Light Fantastic'</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Exhibiting with Textile 21 is helping me to develop another side to my creativity as I constantly fight with the restraints of practicality and struggle to give more weight to the “art” and less to the “wearable” in the wearable art that I create.</span></div>
HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-36215241983559882022016-07-16T12:28:00.000+01:002016-07-16T12:28:55.440+01:00Light Fantastic Private View & Exhibition<div style="text-align: justify;">
With the passage of light through glass at its heart, Textile 21 presents a contemporary textile exhibition inspired by the collection of artifacts, art, and history at St Helens World of Glass.</div>
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We would like to invite all of our followers, and lovers of textiles to our new exhibition 'Light Fantastic' which opens at the World of Glass in St Helens on Saturday 3rd September. Come along for an exclusive look at our new work and meet with the designers from 2pm. We look forward to seeing you there!</div>
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HayleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00134200353781715643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-16864251551434705632016-07-02T13:14:00.003+01:002016-07-02T13:34:28.117+01:00Introducing Norma Hopkins, founder member of Textile 21<div style="text-align: justify;">
As a new feature on our blog, we are going to introduce you to our members, old and new. Our first feature is Norma Hopkins, who is one of the founding members, and also chair of Textile 21. Norma is the one who organises us all at our regular monthly meetings, and keeps us all on track! </div>
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I am a founder member of Textile 21. I had already undertaken a degree in Textiles Fashion, majoring in Embroidery at Manchester Met, then Manchester Polytechnic. I completed this in 1984 with a strong desire to teach, so I took a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (P.G.C.E.) and for the next 7 years, I followed a career teaching drawing, painting and textile art in prison education before teaching at South Trafford Collage. When I had got my teaching hours into a comfortable place to give me time to produce more of my own work, I took up a place on The South Trafford City & Guild Embroidery course which had an excellent reputation.</div>
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I always loved the subject of art at school right from my primary education years. I don’t know where it came from except it must be in my genes somewhere. In junior school, I loved crayons and colouring patterns, these were the lean years after the war, rationing was still in force until I was 10 years old, and people had very little money. Then I had a wonderful inspirational art teacher in secondary school and that began my real interest as I found an aptitude for painting and drawing. At home, where there were no art materials and no knowledge of the subject in my family, making dolls beds from shoe boxes and clothes from scraps of material, became my favourite pastime along with a delight in playing with my mother’s button box.</div>
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In those days, the school leaving age was 15; I left with a yearning to go to Art College. However, circumstances at home meant had to go to work to help with the family finances, so my interest in Art became subjugated.</div>
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I married and in 1962 I had my first Son, closely followed by a second, so for the next 15 years my life became domesticated as I cared for my family, and helped my husband to achieve a dream to own his own business. Throughout this period, all that was art was forgotten. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">When my children came to be teenagers, and my husband achieved his dream, I began to look at my own desires. I had missed much of my education in my childhood due to ill health but had a fervent desire to return to study and formed a cunning plan to gain a second chance to get a further education and to gain a place at Art College.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I love transparent materials as they achieve veils of colour that one layer over another allows a glow from beneath, whether it’s in paint such as watercolour or fabric such as chiffon and all the while, sprinkled with the magic of mixed media to enhance depth.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">It comes from an inner quest as I respond to life’s journey. Often, it’s to do with the idea of enclosure, or the tension between restriction and freedom. The motif of the gate or open passage is often present and the play of colour is always important to me in some way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">Linda </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">has always </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">identified</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> creativity </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">as central to</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> her interaction with the world.</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">S</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">he</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> has </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">had </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">a long career within the arts firstly as a practicing </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">artist</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">working </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">in</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">ceramics</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> sculpture</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">, mo</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">ving on to silkscreen print and</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">electronic art</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">. </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">Throughout</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> her creative explorations there has always been an element of working with textiles.</span></span></span></div>
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Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-35091033205153484982015-10-26T23:09:00.001+00:002016-07-20T18:07:27.889+01:00CREATED IN COLOUR<div>
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First room full of the Fashioned in Silk dresses, with a glimpse of the Created in Colour exhibition in the background. </div>
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Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-33324519399090966592015-10-15T23:02:00.001+01:002016-07-20T18:08:04.656+01:00Jan Grimes revisits her home town for the Created in Colour exhibition<div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442956817641_3174">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I am a B.R.G.S Old Girl from the Sixties, with happy memories of The Kinks and The Hollies at the Astoria, screaming rides on the Walzter, 22 Tor View, (where I lived on the Hall Carr estate with my younger sister, TV journalist Pattie Coldwell), and ........ my school artwork in The Whitaker.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It feels good to be back here, this time with a Textile 21 show. Our exhibition, " Fashioned in Silk: Created in Colour", combines and contrasts ethereal 'ghost' dresses with 3D textiles in exuberant colours and unusual techniques, all displayed in a wonderful space."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can see the exhibition at The Whitaker Museum& Art Gallery, Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, </span></div>
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Created in Colour starts off with a preview on Saturday 24th October at 1pm at The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rawtenstall, BB4 6RE. 01706218858.www.thewhitaker.org</div>
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Cafe on site and the Museum is set in lovely gardens. The East Lancs Railway is close by.<br />
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The exhibition then continues until the 6th December.<br />
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Our exhibition is a duet that follows on from the successful installation Fashioned in Silk at Macclesfield Silk museum in 2014. The installation of ethereal silk dresses inspired us to develop the<br />
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<br />Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-17722057038875957352015-09-22T20:56:00.000+01:002015-09-22T20:58:34.804+01:005 weeks to go At our last monthly meeting we shared our latest work with each other. As it is only five weeks to go before 'Created in Colour' we are almost there. Here are a few sneak closeups.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">So much work gets rejected when you are creating a new piece of work for an exhibition. Come and see what makes it into Terri Jone's final piece when "Fashioned in Silk, Created in Colour", opens at the Whittaker Gallery, Rawtenstall </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="text-align: start;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on October 24th 201</a>5</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first part of my piece is complete and I can't put off starting the second part any longer. for this section I will be working with paper and I must confess to being right outside my comfort zone. The photo shows my early experiments with pleating and folding. Not too difficult when you are working with small pieces, but a different matter when you come to scale it up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Terri has been experimenting with different types of paper and wondering how to utilise the various types of pleating she has been experimenting with. She has also been thinking about colour so that will be her next step before deciding on the final form for her exhibition piece for "Created in Colour" in the autumn. </span></div>
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Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-50201619545465414642015-04-07T22:24:00.002+01:002015-04-07T22:24:55.103+01:00Play Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Just some of the results from a play day when we created 3D results from card and paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fun was had by all and hopefully some inspiration for future works.</span>Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-40492829856569343432015-03-12T12:53:00.000+00:002015-03-12T12:54:43.782+00:00Tech Styles exhibition ready and waiting for Visitors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The exhibition is open as from Saturday 14th March 2015, everything looks different in a new location. There are new exhibits and extension work for sale in the shop. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are now having a breather before starting on our pieces for The Whitaker, Rawtenstall in the autumn.</span>Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-66505576004814073722015-03-02T09:30:00.002+00:002015-03-02T09:32:41.985+00:00NANTWICH MUSEUM EXHIBITION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This time next week we will hanging our pieces at Nantwich Museum. The above image is a closeup of Jackie Brough's installation. Come along after the 14th March to see the full exhibition.Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-16346231702562375982015-02-18T21:12:00.000+00:002015-02-18T21:17:54.523+00:00Closeup of armelle's Tech Styles textile artvwork<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a closeup of Armelle Hatch's textile art for our exhibition Tech Styles that starts on the 14th March at Nantwich Museum, Cheshire. It reflects the fish run at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal.<br />
Like and Share us on facebook<a href="http://www.facebook.com/textile21" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/textile21</a>Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-73210156389546270382015-02-13T22:03:00.000+00:002015-02-13T22:03:02.660+00:00Tech Styles Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-61297414889008476992015-02-04T11:22:00.001+00:002015-02-04T11:22:23.021+00:00Norma Hopkins experimenting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-5612892360511746342015-01-20T20:48:00.003+00:002015-01-20T20:48:21.751+00:00Norma Hopkins preparing for Nantwich exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Norma is preparing her sketchbook for the up and coming exhibition at <a href="http://www.nantwichmuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank">Nantwich Museum</a> in March. Our Tech Styles exhibition is going on tour and this venue will be its second outing.</div>
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March 13th until June 14th 2015.</div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">This image shows a set of work taken from some elements in my sketch book work. The images have been digitally worked on in Photoshop and printed out on a variety of papers then further worked into with Unison soft pastels. The bottom piece is from a Southport walk. Small folded papers were crushed and folded into a small book form. One minute drawing were the base then over worked with Unison Soft Pastels. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">This piece was based on the idea of inlets and waterways … A sort of aerial view of the landscape. In the process, Lutradur was applied for texture and worked into with Unison soft pastels and watercolour pencils. </span></div>
Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-65271527287545043722015-01-16T18:36:00.001+00:002015-01-17T10:24:15.865+00:00EXTENSION WORK FOR NANTWICH. - 'Tech Styles'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We are all preparing for the up and coming exhibition at <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nantwichmuseum.org.uk/">Nantwich</a></span> in two months.</div>
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These are some sneak images of Margaret Steeden's extension pieces. They use the same disperse dyes that she employed for the substrate for her 'Humble Circle'.</div>
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The seed head inspiration came from the garden at Quarry Bank Mill where the exhibition " Tech Styles" was first on display in 2013.<br />
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There will be a range of Sketchbooks and smaller 3D pieces for sale in the shop during the exhibition <br />
14th March until 13th June 2015.<br />
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<br />Margaret Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447640638776118326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28998758.post-55875674379795537442015-01-03T11:31:00.002+00:002015-01-03T11:39:04.963+00:00New Year , New Exhibitions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>TEXTILE 21 </b>would like to wish all our followers a HAPPY NEW YEAR. The images above show some examples of our Secret Santa cards that we exchanged at our Christmas get together in December.<br />
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It going to be a busy one for us this year.<br />
Two of our previous exhibitions go on tour.<br />
Firstly "TechStyles" which was first exhibited at Quarry Bank Mill in 2013 will be at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1968819046"></span>Nantwich Museum<span id="goog_1968819047"></span></a> between the 14 th March and 13th June 2015.<br />
If you missed TechStyles the first time around click the label links on the right hand side for posts on our individual journeys. Or visit our website <a href="http://www.textile21.co.uk/">www.textile21.co.uk</a><br />
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Then later in the autumn " Fashioned in Silk" will be once again be exhibited but this time as part of a larger exhibition at the <a href="http://www.thewhitaker.org/"><b>Whitaker</b> <b>Art Gallery</b></a> in Rawtenstall.<i><b> </b></i><br />
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<b><i>" Fashioned in Silk, Created in Colour</i>" </b><br />
Our silk organza toiles are the starting point for a series of developmental works that will be a riot of colour. Each member has taken an element of their toile design and developed it to create additional pieces of textile art.<br />
Images of the original exhibition are easy to find. Click on the label links on the right hand side or go to our website <a href="http://www.textile21.co.uk/">www.textile21.co.uk</a><br />
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