"Stitching in the Dales Wednesday 15th May - 17th, 2024" hosted by Grassington Textile Art group

 Each year the Grassington Textile Arts Group host a three day textile bonanza and this year we are opening places to Non-members. There is a choice of two tutors: Kirstie Williams and Amanda Clayton.

Kirstie is offering a three day Textile Natural Dyeing and Printing Course. This 3-day workshop will cost £175(inclusive of kit). A non-refundable deposit of £100 is payable with the application.

 Kirstie Williams is a practising artist and print maker. She currently works as the Maker Spaces Manager at The Art House in Wakefield as well as being a tutor and course administrator at Leeds Print Workshop.

Amanda Clayton will be tutoring a three day workshop "A Little Book of Leaves", exploring hand stitch using the simplicity of leaves as imagery/inspiration. A simple folded book will be produced that exploits the transparent qualities of the cloth used. This 3-day workshop will cost £175(inclusive of kit). A non-refundable deposit of £100 is payable with the application.

Amanda is a renowned multi-media textile and has over 30 years teaching experience and has been featured in numerous books.

Next Meeting: November 15th, "Medieval Embroidery" talk by Tanya Bentham

 Our trip to the British Textile Biennial Exhibition at The Whitaker Museum, "Fragments of Our Time" was fabulous. It was a contemporary textile art exhibition featuring South Asian artists brought together for the first time from the UK, USA, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. The materials, techniques, and concepts, highlighted themes of labour, networks, migration, and spiritual and emotional connections to textiles.

Below are a few of the exhibits.

Next Meeting: October 18th, Visit to the Textile Museum

 Our next meeting will be our trip to the Textile Biennial Exhibition at The Whitaker Museum, Rossendale. This exhibition presents an extraordinary display of woven, stitched, dyed, collaged, and felted artworks. From natural fibres and natural dyes and ranging from the immersive to the delicate, this collection of textile works promises to be a real treat.

Our dyeing workshop last session produced some wonderful fabrics for future use. 

Next Meeting: October 4th, Dyeing in Plastic Bags

Our next meeting will be our first workshop of the new GTAG programme 2023-2024 - "Dyeing in Plastic Bags" with tutor Judith Barlass. Judith has been teaching textiles since 2012 covering traditional techniques to more modern textile art. We are looking forward to an exciting day. Members not joining the workshop are very welcome to come along and stitch. "Autumn Colours" are for the raffle this month, and next month's background to stitch will be available for collection. 

 Can anyone tell me anything about the history of the fabric used for the back of this quilt. The dates printed on the fabric are 1837 and 1887, and I assume it was a Victorian Jubilee piece.