Our exhibition is travelling to Bude...

The Written Word

An Exhibition of Textile Art

 

Blanchminster Room, Bude Castle

7th - 26th May 2022

This, the fourth exhibition of Textile Maids work celebrates the written word. As one of the most expressive forms of communication, we use words to tell stories, record history and reveal our thoughts and feelings. Each Textile Maid has explored her own visual interpretation of The Written Word, resulting in an exciting exhibition of contemporary textile art.

We will also have our altered book on display for you to browse.

We do hope you can join us.

For Debbie...

And finally my piece for myself. I chose my favourite colour of aqua/turquoise, and rummaged through my bags of small scraps to unearth some last fragments of batiks and quilting snippets of much loved fabrics. More memories again, the rummaging is never a quick exercise as I stop to recall previous pieces of work and projects.

I chose these two stitches because one (herringbone)was an early one learnt at primary school using thick cotton thread and Aida. The other (Pistil) was learnt on a glorious workshop led by Beppi Berlin several years ago. You can get into a nice relaxing rhythm with these too. I thought they would complement each other and could be quite dynamic in their interplay.

I used perle threads and some finer cotton threads I had dyed myself, I do love a variegated thread. The little sections of lace and old linen buttons added some focal points. This piece was fun to create.

I hope your stitching makes your soul sing too.
Thank you for reading.
Debbie