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Stroud International Textiles

textile festival

30 April – 22 May
w w w. s t ro u d i n t e r n a t i o n a l t e x t i l e s . o r g . u k
Stroud Five Valleys, Gloucestershire, England
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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
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l 2010 SIT Festival catalogue essay

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Welcome
Lizzi Walton
Festival 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.
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exhibition
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Jane Edgar
RCA MSIAD
A 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
v 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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Saturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
v 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 l
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Clyde Olliver
Much 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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Tilleke Schwarz
Tilleke 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 l
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Lynn Setterington
The work exhibited here is part of a new body of work,
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
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Debbie Smyth
Debbie Smyth’s playful yet sophisticated contemporary £0
artworks are created by stretching a network of threads free
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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 debbie smyth

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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£0 Lauren Steeper’s work is inspired by chance and its
free relationship with order. For the work in this exhibition she
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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.
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Jessica 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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exhibition
free
event Sue Hiley Harris
Saturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
v 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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Studio Seven Textile artists

This event is supported by Stroud International Textile Festival

Saturday 30 April – Sunday 22 May closed Mondays
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
v 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. £0
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Studio Seven has created projects such as Textiles in event

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

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Through their collaborative and interactive process, Studio
Seven has become a potent and consistently inventive SIT
force in the fields of textiles, installation and performance.
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exhibition
free
event Corinne Gradis & Elodie Watanabe
Saturday 30 April – Saturday 21 May
Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm
Sundays 2pm – 5pm
v 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
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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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South West Textile Group
Saturday 30 April - Sunday 22 May
Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sundays 2pm – 5pm
v 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 £0
to ward off evil spirits, symbols to counteract the evil eye, free
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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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Sophie Horton
v Stroud: 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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A selection of work from free
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the Festival
Saturday 30 April –
Sunday 15 May 10am – 5pm
v 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
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echoed in the stitched motifs.
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Somerset College event

Saturday 30 April –
Saturday 21 May 10am – 5pm
closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
v Kendrick Street Gallery,
Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AA
admission free, no disabled access
A selection of work from the BA
students of Somerset College
in Taunton.

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Textile Festival 2011
v Stroud: various locations
£0 Work from the students can be seen in shop windows
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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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student collective saturday 30 Somerset College
The division of Arts & Design at Somerset College has a
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
College, Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset TA1 1UZ

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Student Collective Fashion Brief
The 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 Brief

Students 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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student collective saturday 30 The BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles course is for those who
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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l Static Nature
Anthea Walsh
Saturday 30 April –
Sunday 22 May
v Millets shop window, Stroud High
Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ
This work explores landscape in
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free space, both within the confines of
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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,
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Ruth Davey
Saturday 30 April –
Sunday 22 May
Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
Saturday 8.30am – 5pm,
8pm – 11pm
Sunday 10am – 3pm
v Star Anise Arts Café,
Five Valleys Foyer, Gloucester St.,
Stroud GL5 1QG
Ruth’s exhibition offers a broad £0
interpretation of textiles through free
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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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l Out of Stroud £0
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Gloucestershire Guild Made by Hand event

of Craftsmen Saturday 30 April –

Saturday 30 April – Saturday 21 May 10am – 5pm
Saturday 21 May 10am – 5pm closed Sundays
closed Sundays & Mondays v Made in Stroud shop,
v The Guild Gallery, Kendrick Street Stroud GL5 1AA
Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Craftwork for sale from nationally
Painswick GL6 6QQ acclaimed artists.
01452 814745 free
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

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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.
£0 free
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l In Stitches
Under the Edge Arts
Saturday 30 April –
Sunday 22 May 10am – 4pm
open weekends only
v 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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talk
l The Craft of Collecting
Textiles
Professor Simon Olding
illustrated talk
Saturday 30 April 2pm
v 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
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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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l Collections and Collecting
Mary La Trobe-Bateman
Saturday 30 April 3.30pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
The crafts offer a great range of
work: everyday things that can be
used for eating, drinking, cooking;
unusual and individual pieces of Tilleke Schwarz
jewellery and textiles to wear; Tilleke lives with her husband and
challenging fine art pieces that cat near Delft in the Netherlands.
stimulate ideas. The real value She exhibits all over the world
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of craftwork lies in the individual in major galleries and museums.

maker’s skill, enthusiasm and Her work has been published in
judgement – their joy for the object magazines and books. She is a
and for building a collection of freelance lecturer and teacher.
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.
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l Yes - you can do it
Tilleke Schwarz
2 day workshop
Saturday 30 April 10am – 3pm
Sunday 1 May 10am – 5pm
v 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
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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!
£80/Friends of SIT £70
saturday 30
talk
l Making Sense out of the
Non Sense of our Society
Tilleke Schwarz
illustrated talk
Saturday 30 April 5pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
£6
All delegates will get a free goodie
bag supplied by Selvedge magazine
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l Exploring Woven
Structures
Sue Hiley Harris
illustrated talk
Sunday 1 May 11.30am
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
£5/Friends of SIT £4
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l Traces
talk
Jessica Turrell
illustrated talk
Sunday 1 May 2.30 pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
£6/Friends of SIT £5
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l Print Patterns
Simon Packard
illustrated talk
Sunday 1 May 4pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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,

various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11 closed on Monday

many seen at the Pitt Rivers
Museum and Ashmolean Museum
during his time as a researcher at

Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14

the University of Oxford Museum
Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21
Service (2004-2006). The illustrated
talk will show the stages from
research to realisation of large scale

Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14

In Stitches Under the Edge Arts: see page 23
outdoor sculpture commissions,
Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21
and how woodcuts develop from
sketch to limited print. Simon will
also today:

discuss the resulting online archive

Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12

of this time.
Simon is also exhibiting his work
at Ecotricity, 7 Russell Street, Stroud.
£5/Friends of SIT £4

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l Art Showcase
Stroud College students
Tuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May
10am – 4pm
closed weekends & Bank Holidays
v 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
£0 professional practice.
free
event
free
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exhibition
l Schema
Fiona Haines
Tuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May
8.30am – 5pm
closed weekends & Bank Holidays
v 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. £0
free
event
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exhibition
l Portraits: Textile Trail
Alexander Caminada
Tuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May
8.30am – 5pm
closed weekends & Bank Holidays
v Ecotricity, 7 Russell Street,
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.
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l Black Flour
Simon Packard
Tuesday 3 May – Friday 20 May
8.30am – 5pm
closed weekends & Bank Holidays
v Ecotricity, 7 Russell Street,
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 £0
free
event
cut metal work will be the subject of
his talk at the Museum in the Park
on Sunday 1 May.

A series of prints are on display in free

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. £0
free
event
free

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tuesday 03
also today: wednesday 04
l various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11
l Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21 thursday 05
l Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12
l Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
l Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21
friday 06
l Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14
l Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14
free
event

l various Ecotricity, Stroud: see page 28 closed weekends

l Student Collective Kendrick Street Gallery: see page 15
v

l Out of Stroud Made In Stroud: see page 22

l Art Showcase Stroud College: see page 28 closed weekends
l Floribunda Painswick: see page 22
event

10am – 2.30pm

Call 01453 763394

£0 l The Big Weave
for Primary Schools

Park, Stroud GL5 4AF

school pupils to have a go at

tuition of Caroline Marriott and

Museum in the Park, Stratford

Diane Wood from The Big Weave.

tapestry weaving under the expert
A fabulous opportunity for primary

Book early to avoid disappointment.

Thursday 5 May & Friday 6 May

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free
Drop in day Open Studios event

Saturday 7 May 11am – 4.30pm Saturday 7 May 10am – 6pm

v Museum in the Park, Sunday 8 May 12 noon – 5pm
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF v See FREE Textile Trail guide
Come along to the Museum and Enjoy going from studio to studio
£0 discover the wonders of weaving and seeing where artists work.
free and try your hands at weaving on This is a great opportunity to meet
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The Big Weave Community Loom. the makers and buy direct.
Everyone welcome. free
free
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£0 Pick up your free guide to

free the Textile Trail containing
guide

specially commissioned
photographic portraits of the
artists and their studios by
Alexander Caminada

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l Off the Loom: Woven Explorations and
Applications in Art, Science and Industry
Speakers: Laura Thomas, Asha Peta
Thompson, Kirsty McDougall,
Melissa French, Ptolemy Mann
one day seminar
Sunday 8 May 11am - 5pm
v 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.
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This seminar is sponsored by Renishaw plc

“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.”
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11am
Laura Thomas, artist, curator and
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.
11.45am
Asha 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
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dashing tweeds
press coverage has focussed on
their partnering with the Ministry of
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Defence to develop embedded
technical functionality into military
clothing, predominantly as a
replacement for conventional cables
in soldier systems.
lunch break
2pm
Kirsty 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
uncharted territory, winning them
fans across the fashion world. Of
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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.
2.45pm
Melissa 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
This seminar is sponsored by Renishaw plc
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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3.45pm
Ptolemy Mann, artist and
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
dashing tweeds
be served at lunchtime.
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thursday 12
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l Costume Study Day
with Marta Cock
Thursday 12 May
10.30am – 12.30pm & 2pm – 4pm
v 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.
Booking: 01453 763394

also today:
£12 day, £7 half day

l various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11 closed on Monday

l Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21
l Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12
l Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
l Student Collective Kendrick Street Gallery: see page 15 closed on Sunday
l Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21
l Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14
l In Stitches Under the Edge Arts: see page 23 weekends only
l Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14
l various Ecotricity, Stroud: see page 28 closed weekends
l Out of Stroud Made In Stroud: see page 22 closed on Sunday

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l Floribunda Painswick: see page 22 closed on Sunday and Monday
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l Late Night At The Museum l The Cutting Room
Three talks a film by Pip & Ali Heywood
Friday 13 May 5pm – 10pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF
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
£0 and exhibitions. Tea, coffee and
free
event
wine bar.
In partnership with Stroud
International Textiles Festival
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l Friday 13 May more diary listings: see from page 35 to page 37
talk+film
5pm
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.
£5 (£12 for all 3 talks)
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l The Language of
AlSadu Weaving
Dr Keireine Canavan
6.30pm
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.
£6 (£12 for all 3 talks)
keireine canavan
late night friday 13
talk
l Pleated and Folded:
The Unique Traditional Skirts of
South West China
Martin Conlan
of Slow Loris Textiles
8pm
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.
£6 (£12 for all 3 talks)
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l World Textile Weekend
Directed by Polly Lyster
Saturday 14 May 9.30am – 4.30pm
Sunday 15 May 10.30am – 4pm
v 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
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l Vintage Textile Fair l The Big Screen: Tapestry
Saturday 14 May 10am – 3.30pm as an early animated art form
v Subscription Rooms, Jenny Band
George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE illustrated talk
All day sale of vintage fashions and Saturday 14 May 11.30am
textiles from the 1800’s to the v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
1980’s. Organised by Ashley Fairs. Stratford Park, Stroud GL 5 4AF
Admission £3 adults/£2 students, Jenny Band is a historian of material
accompanied children free 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
Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14

into the cutting-edge Textile

Student Collective Kendrick Street Gallery: see page 15
Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21

Conservation Studio and laboratory

which has preserved some of the
various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11

UK’s most iconic historic tapestries.

Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14
In Stitches Under the Edge Arts: see page 23

Always conscious that modern

Out of Stroud Made In Stroud: see page 22
Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21

audiences were missing their full

meanings, Jenny will explain how
also today:

Floribunda Painswick: see page 22

the context in which tapestries were

Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12

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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l Unravelling the Mystery
of Woven Tapestry
Lynsay Shephard
illustrated talk
Saturday 14 May 1pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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
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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
extraordinary works of art.
£5/Friends of SIT £4
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l Saturday 14 May more diary listings: see from page 38 to page 42
talk
l Transparent Boundaries
Lesley Millar
illustrated talk
Saturday 14 May 3pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
‘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
space, forming boundaries and
affording access.
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l Pairings – collaborations
across media
Alice Kettle
illustrated talk
Saturday 14 May 5pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
This talk will show how this
project has provided an impetus for
the growing discourse about craft
practice, the breaking down of
boundaries and the cross
fertilization of material and ideas.
£6/Friends of SIT £5
alice kettle
studio seven
saturday 14
workshop
l Workshop Day
Studio Seven
workshop
Saturday 14 May 10am – 4pm
v 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.
£25 including materials
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l Stitches In Time
workshop
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 May
10am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 4pm
v
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.
£4
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l Saturday 14 May more diary listings: see from page 38 to page 42
talk
l Developing a Fashion
Fabrics Collection
Tim Parry-Williams
illustrated talk
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Sunday 15 May 12 noon
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
£5 (£12 for all 3 talks)
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l The Shape of a Hat:
Millinery in the 20th Century
Sarah Cant
illustrated talk
Sunday 15 May 1.30pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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
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Studio Seven
Textile artists.
£5 (£12 for all
3 talks)
shire Guild of Craftsmen
also today:
l Sunday 15 May more diary listings: see from page 42 to page 44
sunday 15
talk
l Gardening with Silk:
Introduction to Arts and Crafts
Movement Embroidery
Mary Greensted
illustrated talk
Sunday 15 May 3pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
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.
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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
Movement in Britain.’
£5 (£12 for all 3 talks)
www.guildcrafts.org.uk
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tuesday 17
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Imogen Harvey Lewis
Sunday 15 May 10am – 4pm
v 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

Student Collective Kendrick Street Gallery: see page 15 closed on Sunday

crafted pocket sized creatures made
from odd socks. They are simple,

various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11 closed on Monday

quirky and are very well behaved.
Join Imogen in this fun making

Out of Stroud Made In Stroud: see page 22 closed on Sunday

workshop and learn how to make a

In Stitches Under the Edge Arts: see page 23 weekends only

Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14
range of loveable sock friends. Turn

Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21

your socks into weird and wonderful

various Ecotricity, Stroud: see page 28 closed weekends

creatures with a little bit of help and
a whole lot of inventiveness.

Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14

Ideal for people of all ages, families Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
and children over 7. All children Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21
under 10 must be accompanied by
also today:

an adult. Bring old socks, all other

Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12

materials will be provided.

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l Hooky & Clippy Mats Jenni Stuart-Anderson
rag rug workshop
Wednesday 18 May 10am – 4pm

l Proggy & Plaited Mats Jenni Stuart-Anderson

rag rug workshop
Thursday 19 May 10am – 4pm
v 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.
l Floribunda Painswick: see page 22 closed on Sunday and Monday

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

hessian bag which makes a decorative and useful sampler.
l Art Showcase Stroud College: see page 28 closed weekends

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

£45/£40 concessions
Limited places so booking essential 01453 763394
Organised by Museum in the Park

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saturday 2
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Sue Rangeley
2 day workshop
Saturday 21 May 11am – 4pm
Sunday 22 May 11am – 4.30pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF
This workshop offers a fusion of
design and creative embroidery
with techniques to inspire fashion
Student Collective Kendrick Street Gallery: see page 15 closed on Sunday
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
Art Showcase Stroud College: see page 28 closed weekends
In Stitches Under the Edge Arts: see page 23 weekends only
Festival Feast New Brewery Arts, Cirencester: see page 14

using soluble stabilisers, appliqué

Challenging Textiles Star Anise Arts Café: see page 21

and cutwork sheers, fabric

various Ecotricity, Stroud: see page 28 closed weekends

manipulation and machine

various Museum in the Park: see page 2 to page 11

embroidered textures. Sue

Sophie Horton site specific work: see page 14

Rangeley’s textiles have featured in

Out of Stroud Made In Stroud: see page 22
Talisman Subscription Rooms: see page 13
Static Nature Milletts, Stroud: see page 21

numerous publications. Her first

book Embroidered Originals was
also today:

Floribunda Painswick: see page 22

published in 2010.
Relics Lansdown Hall: see page 12

A full materials and equipment

list will be provided on enrolment.
Materials will be available to
purchase in class.
£55/Friends of SIT £50

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illustrated talk
Saturday 21 May 5pm
v Gallery 2, Museum in the Park,
Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF
‘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
workshop
saturday 2
l Off the Page: Developing
Ideas in Three Dimensions
Jessica Turrell
2 day workshop
Saturday 21 May 10am – 4pm
Sunday 22 May 11am – 4pm
v 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.
£50/Friends of SIT £45
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Cotswold Woolgatherers event

Saturday 21 May 9am –

until finished
v 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 back to back © alexander caminada

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
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l Saturday 21 May more diary listings: see from page 46 to page 49
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event
l Vintage Shindig
The Piccadilly Bullfrogs + DJ Pavinyl
Stroud GL5 1QG
Saturday 21 May 9pm – 3am
end of festival party
v 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

the 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,
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information Booking
Tickets may be booked by contacting the SIT office on
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 Information
During 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: enquiries@stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk

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 Centre

l v Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE
l t: 01453 760960 e: tic@stroud.gov.uk
l Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
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v Five Valleys Foyer, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG
t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607
Monday – Friday 10am – 2pm

Stroud International Textiles

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Festival Books
Chrome 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.

Accommodation
For 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 & Drinking

There 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 Festival

SIT 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 l
performers the festival promises something for everyone. l
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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
information l Venue Information
A46 to Painswick &
v Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, GL5 4AF Cheltenham
t: 01453 763394 A4173 Gloucester
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
closed Mondays Stratford Park
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 1
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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

v Lansdown Hall, Lansdown GL5 1BN t: 01453 767576
v George Room, Subscription Rooms GL5 1AE
t: 01453 760960
v Kendrick Street Gallery GL5 1AA t: 01453 756936
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l Lansdown Hall, Kendrick Street Gallery and Foyer Arts
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v Five Valleys Foyer, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG
t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607
Monday – Friday 10am – 2pm
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201 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

SIT
Abigail Large, the administrator at the Museum. Abigail

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works tirelessly for the Museum and for the arts in the town.
Stroud International Textiles
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.

l And last but not least we want to thank the Festival

l committee and all the many volunteers and stewards who
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