5 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.

Terri Jones' progress with experiments for 'CREATED IN COLOUR'

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 on October 24th 2015

                                

Terri commented on her progress.

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.

                               

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. 

New Year , New Exhibitions

TEXTILE 21 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.

It going to be a busy one for us this year.
Two of our previous exhibitions go on tour.
Firstly "TechStyles" which was first exhibited at Quarry Bank Mill in 2013 will be at Nantwich Museum between the 14 th March and 13th June 2015.
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 www.textile21.co.uk

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 Whitaker Art Gallery in Rawtenstall. 

" Fashioned in Silk, Created in Colour" 
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.
Images of the original exhibition are easy to find. Click on the label links on the right hand side or go to our website www.textile21.co.uk

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LATEST NEWS

We have just had confirmation that we have secured an exhibition slot at the Whitaker Museum, Rawtenstall in the autumn of next year. 

Our successful FASHIONED IN SILK installation will be making a second appearance alongside new extension work to complement the silk toile dresses that were first seen at Macclesfield Silk Museum earlier this year. 

In addition our TECHSTYLES exhibition will be at Nantwich Museum in the spring of next year, further details later.