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Stroud International Textiles is a not for profit arts
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organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts with
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an emphasis on contemporary textiles and the applied arts/crafts. Select is an innovative annual festival that takes place every Spring.
Stroud International Textiles t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607 Please note the office is not open to visitors
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Welcome
craft at its origin
I am really pleased to have this opportunity to recommend
something enchanting and inspiring about watching an
the Select Trail for 2014. Stroud and the surrounding
experienced and talented maker at work – the
area are rich in craft talent and the Select Trail provides
combination of skill, rhythmic work, and design talent.
an opportunity to explore that richness in the glorious
That first-hand experience of meeting the maker,
surroundings of the town, its villages and countryside.
soaking up the workshop atmosphere and the artist-led exhibitions all adds immeasurably to the craft object.
We are really fortunate to have Stroud International
The Select Trail offers the opportunity to do just that.
Textiles working hard for the craft community in Gloucestershire and providing visitors with such a
Do try and visit as many venues as possible. Make the
fantastic experience. The Select Trail is just one way
most of this excellent opportunity of meeting the makers.
in which they support the wealth of professional
You will be impressed and entertained and, above all,
designer-makers in the Stroud Valleys.
bowled over by the quality and variety of work.
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On the trail you’ll be able to see a wide range of crafts
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Anne Rogers: Fine Felt Designs exhibiting in The Textile Studio The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 326853 e: annerogers66@hotmail.co.uk www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Anne’s work explores the versatility of felt as a medium through colour, texture and shape. She combines the finest merino wool with lightweight silk and cotton fabrics and wisps of silk, linen and metallic threads to create unique new textiles with a rich depth of colour and exciting textures. Her current collection includes nuno-felted seamless tops and jackets, textured silk and merino scarves, felted hats and gloves and delicate couture lampshades.
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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.
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Jenny Bicat The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA t: 01608 658676 e: jennybicat@bicat.co.uk www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Jenny Bicat trained in Fine Art. She puts colour into cloth drawing on her knowledge of painting. In her studio she develops, using traditional (non-digital)
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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.
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Liz Lippiatt The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 412246 e: textile@liz-lippiatt.com www.liz-lippiatt.com www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Liz Lippiatt follows the great tradition of working with cloth in the Stroud Valleys. Liz designs and screenprints silk, velvet and fine linen creating collections for fashion and furnishings. She is renowned for her fine devoré silk velvets. In recent years Liz has worked on
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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.
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Liz Valenti Sticky Paper Studio, 2a Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QN
cutting, construction and finish have provided a rich
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background to her obsession for working with paper.
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Now joyfully released from the worlds of industry and education, she relishes the perversity of making clothes
Liz has been a fashion designer and a lecturer in fashion
and fabrics which, by being made in paper as well as
design since the 70s. Her knowledge and experience of
by being assembled behind sealed glass, are both
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At the bottom of Gloucester Street turn into Slad Road. From the Stroud end of the Slad Road between Lloyds Pharmacy & the Co-op.
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pieces such as rich velvets, pastel cottons and rainbow wools to build up pieces having a myriad of colours and textures. Designs are built up in layers graduating shades, tones and texture to create a mosaic from fabric. Sue is a fan of Rothko and enjoys emulating the colour phasing of his work. She has worked with schools and projects to create pieces including memory rugs. Member of the Waterways Craft Guild.
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On foot: From Slad Road walk through Park Gardens up to an opening in the wall at the top of the gardens. Go through the gateway and there is a complex of
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Springhill Co-Housing. Walk into the car park, past the car ports on your left to the end and follow the path round to the right. You will see some wooden steps in front of you, go up and 27 is the right hand door.
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By Car: From Slad Road drive up Folly Lane and turn into Springfield Road which is the second turning on the right. Park on Springfield Road if you can but parking is limited. There is no parking in Springhill itself.
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Matthew Harris Uplands Cottage, 99 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 762539 e: mattjharris@homecall.co.uk www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk www.caa.org.uk Matthew Harris works with both cloth, paper and thread to create drawings/collages and textiles. By a process of dyeing, staining, cutting, piecing, stitching and binding he constructs work that is primarily concerned with the translation of drawn marks onto cloth. He has
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Marion Mitchell Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ m: 07958 949325 e: marion.mitchell@btinternet.com Marion creates small, unusual sculptures using stoneware clay, stains, oxides and glazes. They are inspired by how she sees and interprets the natural world that surrounds her. Most of them are totally non functional, but hopefully they give pleasure and meaning to the heart and to the eye.
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The Studio is a short walk from the town centre and is situated on the B4070 Slad Road. Coming from Stroud, there is a green gate approximately five houses along from the the Fountain pub, on the left hand side. Go through the gate up the path and 105 can be found halfway up on the right.
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Victoria Underwood: Pottery Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1QZ e: edzombievix@yahoo.co.uk “There was a young woman from Devizes Whose pots were of varying sizes Some were so small And of no use at all
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Tara Davidson Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ m: 07948 966957 www.tarajaneceramics.com Based in her studio in Gloucestershire, Tara loves the smooth delicate simplicity of porcelain and the way colour outlines the detail of the antique lace she uses. Each piece is formed by hand incorporating lace patterns from heirlooms and pieces found in antique shops, flea markets and country fairs.
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Valerie Jordan Cockshoot Cottage, Sheepscombe, Stroud GL6 7QY t: 01452 814441 e: valerieolsen@btinternet.com www.valeriejordan.com “As a practitioner my roots are in the tradition of landscape and still-life painting. My recent work has involved drawing painting, printing and sewing in direct response to the landscape of Miami and the Cotswolds. I layer, superimpose and repeat details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells flowers, etc. within structures that echo both Eastern carpet design and formal grid of the city. I regard these ‘landmarks’, natural and man-made, as equally transient.”
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Art Couture Painswick Art Couture Gallery, The Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Painswick, Stroud GL6 6QQ t: 01452 814522 e: frances@acpfestival.co.uk www.acpfestival.co.uk A collaboration between three textile artists: Jennifer Norris, Paula Marks and Frances Day, this will be an opportunity to watch art in action. They will be creating a large and impressive piece of wearable art in the gallery space run by Art Couture which will be completed over the Select Trail weekends. Other items of wearable art will be on display in the gallery, together with information on the techniques and inspiration for the piece under construction.
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From Stroud enter Painswick on the A46, go through the traffic lights in the middle of the village and take the next right into Bisley Street. The Painswick Centre is about 200m down on the left hand side.
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Be inspired by stepping into the magpie world that is the
The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill,
shared studio of sisters Gemma Sangwine and Victoria
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Sangwine-Gould. See how they transform reclaimed
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textiles and knits, vintage fabrics, buttons, lace,
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distinctive ranges of fashion and interiors accessories.
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The studio is out of Stroud on the London Road A419, past Bowbridge and The British Oak pub. Stafford Mills is the first mill complex on the right-hand side before ‘Karz N Trux’ motor dealers.
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Elaine Day The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ t: 01453 834130 e: elainejuneday@me.com www.elainedayjewellery.co.uk www.craftsingloucestershire.co.uk Elaine Day is a Jeweller and Silversmith. Working with sterling silver, gold, precious and semi precious stones she employs traditional techniques to produce unique ‘one off’ pieces. Her work reflects the flora and fauna she encounters, above and below water, in a personal
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Nick Ozanne: Leto & Ariadne The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill, t: 01453 751886 e: nick@letoariadne.com www.letoariadne.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Leto & Ariadne is the award winning studio label of
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Nick Ozanne, a hand weaver who creates tactile, wearable fabrics using luxurious natural fibres. Trained at Winchester School of Art, Nick hand weaves cloth for fashion and interior accessories. His work is sold UK wide and in Paris. Studio will be open by appointment in the week between Trail weekends. Please call before visiting.
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Polly Lyster: Dyeworks Woodside, Toadsmoor, Brimscombe GL5 2UL t: 01453 885036 e: thedyeworks@mac.com
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Anna Simson: Ceramics
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Victoria Works Studios, London Road,
It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite
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Hallidays Mill. Parking is available on the roadside
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e: anna@giraffe-view.com Taking inspiration from the shapes around us, in our homes and in nature, Anna creates beautiful objects for
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practical and decorative use. Fusing plain and patterned celedon and turquoise glazes with coloured glass to create tea-pots, mugs, bowls and vases alongside tactile ceramic representations of seed-pods using creative as well as traditional firing techniques. In addition to the Weekend Trail, Anna will frequently be in her studio midweek for visits, although you may wish to phone first on 07970 224470 to avoid disappointment.
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Jill Watton Ceramics Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07891 249900 e: jillwatton@hotmail.com Jill makes wheel thrown ceramics in stoneware and porcelain. They are functional everyday objects that convey her love of throwing. Surface quality and the natural beauty of clay and glaze are allowed to take centre stage on the simple undecorated forms. Multiple firings explore the properties of clay and glaze and put their sheer materiality at the heart the work.
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Kate Montgomery: Clever Monty Furniture Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07791 129718 e: clevermonty@gmail.com www.clevermonty.co.uk Furniture with a story to tell... Kate is a writer with a passion for beautiful furniture. To create perfect heirlooms, Kate writes unique pieces of fiction and hides them in secret panels inside beautiful re-furbished pieces of furniture. Buyers can keep a copy of the story
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t: 01453 889626 e: studio.manouche@zen.co.uk www.manouche.org “We make mosaics, mirrors, clocks and curiosities from predominantly recycled materials. We gather ingredients from car boot sales, charity shops, skips and from visitor donations. Manouche means gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt. We endeavour to make stuff which is beautiful, colourful, vibrant, lively, sparky, melodic and improvised-just like the music! We have a permanent open studio and gallery which exhibits both our own work and showcases the work of other artists and makers based at Hallidays Mill and locally.”
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Bill Rickinson: Ceramics 2 Anchor Terrace, High Street, Chalford GL6 8DS t: 01453 731167 m: 07791618575 e: s.birley167@btinternet.com Bill Rickenson’s work is in stoneware, and raku which roughly translates as ‘seeking contentment’, and is based on the Japanese firing technique associated with the tea ceremony. Each piece of work is unique, some having ‘lustre’ glazes, from the fire and smoking process. Tall forms combine ‘throwing’ and handbuilding. Many box forms are influenced by ancient carved wooden chests from the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Other lidded forms have a ‘Viking’ influence.
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Sarah Hardaker Ramside, St Loes Pitch, off Culver Hill, Amberley GL5 5BB m: 07975 982885 e: info@sarahhardaker.co.uk www.sarahhardaker.co.uk “A background in print design and embroidery and a love of natural fabrics and all things softly coloured led me to start an interior textile company which embraces modern digital production methods whilst still using beautiful hand drawn designs. Soft chalky colours and vintage inspiration combine with beautiful hand drawn embroidery on natural linens and wools to create interior and lifestyle products and fabrics.”
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Cleo Mussi joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET m: 07791 653208 e: mussimosaics@homecall.co.uk www.mussimosaics.co.uk Cleo Mussi's mosaics are reconstructed from ceramic discard. She recycles marks, glazes, pattern and functional forms to produce beautiful strange and humorous pieces. These mosaics have tales to tell from genetic engineering and environmental issues as well as china tales from our own family histories. Cleo has created many major commissions and has exhibited
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Annie Hewett joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 741236 e: ceramics@anniehewett.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk www.studiopottery.co.uk Annie makes domestic earthenware for everyday use. She uses white clay for the engraved cobalt ware and red clay for the ‘Retro’ designs. These materials allow Annie the freedom to paint with and draw and cut through layers of coloured slip to create a spontaneous design on the surface. Each piece is unique.
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Moira B. Buckley joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 753483 e: puckshole@hotmail.com www.moirabuckley.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk
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are combined with vitreous enamel, precious and non-precious materials. General themes and inspiration which run through the work are notions of delicacy, fragility, and the strangeness of materials when seen up close and out of context.
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Dorothy Reglar joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01285 641109 e: dorothyreglar@aol.com www.newbreweryarts.org.uk The garments Dorothy makes are of natural fibres and natural dyes with an emphasis on ethical sourcing. She works with weavers in North East Thailand and Laos. The experience she gained throughout her career in fashion has been put to a practical and beneficial use. Her studio is full of collected textiles, costume, artefacts and books which are inspirational, contributing to the
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Tessa Tyldesley joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 882647 e: tessatyldesley@tantraweb.co.uk Tessa designs jewellery using semi-precious stones and silver beads. Her approach to designing is very much influenced by her ‘painter’s eye’ and an empathy with colour. The combination of colour and texture creates implied movement. Her work can be seen in galleries
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Susan Early joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 812067 m: 07791 618575 e: susanearly@btinternet.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Susan Early makes traditional baskets and sculptural forms using English Somerset willow and hedgerow materials. She uses mainly English, Irish and French techniques when making her baskets and vessels alongside a variety of weaves. Her work is both
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Ursula Jeakins joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 883403 e: starsmeadbooks@gmail.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Ursula hand-sews and binds books which are designed to stop the eye and entice you to put pen to paper: to write, to draw, to create – a notebook, a commonplace book, a journal, scrapbook or personal album. Using dyed pastes she makes cover papers with rich sweeping colours. She also uses collage and recycled images as well as contemporary marbled papers and patterned papers by vintage designers such as
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Liz Brooke Ward showing at One Fat Quarter One Fat Quarter, Sewing Workshop, Tradeplas Building, Stroud Road, Nailsworth GL6 0BE t: 01453 751305 m: 07875 007674 e: stokenhill@hotmail.co.uk www.lizbrookeward.com www.lizbrookeward.com/stitch-in-time-blog.html www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk “I live and work in Whiteshill, near Stroud, have been a regular artist in residence at Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucester and exhibit and give talks about my work.
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Catherine Kingzett
weekends on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
showing at One Fat Quarter
(not Wednesday) 10am–4pm
One Fat Quarter, Sewing Workshop, Tradeplas Building, Stroud Road, Nailsworth GL6 0BE
The Sewing Workshop is just outside Nailsworth on
m: 07786 547820
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e: cathmkingzett@aol.com
left just as you enter the 30mph speed limit of
www.onefatquarter.co.uk
Nailsworth. From Nailsworth toward Stroud, it is on the right just past Egypt Mill Hotel, approximately
Inspired by the changing seasons and the patterns and
300yds from the town centre.
textures created by nature over time, Catherine's embroideries are worked using machine and hand stitching. Having moved to a new workshop in July 2013
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In Nailsworth take the turning signposted Horsley
Textiles Workshop, Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road,
(Old Bristol Rd, on the south side of town). Ruskin
Nailsworth GL6 0LA
Mill is on the left after approx. ¼ mile. Parking is
m: 07905 239628
either in the Town Hall car park immediately on the
m: 07845 781224 workshop
right as you turn into Old Bristol Rd, or at Horsley
www.clareherrington.co.uk
Mill which can be found on the left further up the valley from Ruskin Mill. Walking from either car park
Clare is a maker who aims to create items that are both
is about 8 mins. Disabled car parking is available at
useful & beautiful, using reclaimed & remnant fabrics.
the front of Ruskin Mill. The studio is above the café.
Wools are dyed, felted and made into rugs, bags and cushions. Stunning linens transform the humble apron. Pre loved denims with their unique characteristics are pieced together & quilted to make throws. One off pieces for sale, along with rug making supplies & kits.
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Helen Taylor: Taylored Felt Textiles Workshop, Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 0LA m: 0752 8857598 e: hctaylor2002@taylored-felt.com
Helen sculpts and ‘paints’ with wool using needle-felting and wet-felting techniques. Rare-breed fleece and plant-dyed fleece add a natural quality to her portraits of animals and owls. Her sculptures and wall-hangings have a light textured form that paradoxically captures
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Lucy Birtles: Ceramics Seven Stars Cottage, Narrowcut Lane, Horsley GL6 0PS t: 01453 833960 t: 01453 836635 home www.lucybirtles.co.uk Handbuilt sculptural pieces in porcelain and stoneware. “I work in a variety of sizes for interior and exterior use:
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Kelly Kitsch Seven Stars Cottage, Narrowcut Lane, Horsley GL6 0PS t: 01453 833960 m: 07866 525187 e: sarah@kellykitsch.co.uk www.kellykitsch.co.uk “Kelly Kitsch began with a love of tat and a fascination with shrines. As an avid charity and junk shop visitor, my collection of obscure and discarded items has grown quite large. All these items seem special to me, and I want to give them the importance they deserve. Placing them in their own shrines, they are treated like little icons. Embellished with LED lights, fake flowers, tassels
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Atelier: Katharina & Marianne Child Textile & Culture Club
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St Leonard’s Well, Stockley Way, Upton Hill GL4 8DF
Nelson Street, take right fork along Castle Street
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e: info@oliverberri.com
left in front of Piccadilly Mill. There is also plenty of
www.oliverberri.com
parking: Lower Street is one way so enter from Field Road opposite the hospital if driving.
Nadia and Natasha take there inspiration from a rich cultural palette of textile and design, the Oliver Berri duo create beautiful interiors that are both tailored and scaled to each unique project and individual. For Select visitors Oliver Berri would like to offer free interior design consultations for people who come and
part, oidery, ..we are soft yarn
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Oliver Berri
trail specials
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19a Lower Street, Stroud GL5 2HT
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other art forms and to link to crafts and the applied arts.
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In 2014 we are raising the profile for design and the link
Woodchester Mill, North Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5NN
to the applied arts. Good craft isn’t just about function
t: 01453 878517
it should also deliver pleasure and satisfaction. We hope
e: office@lewisandwood.co.uk
to raise debate and place good craft design central to
www.lewisandwood.co.uk
our well being.
Discovering and nurturing artistic talent from other
SIT makes a significant contribution to the economic
applied arts such as engravers, ceramicists, muralists
and cultural prosperity of the region through our year
and decorative painters to create a series of bold
round programme. In the Select Trail we offer
and diverse fabrics is a unique characteristic of Lewis
opportunities for participating artists to develop their
& Wood’s innovative and dynamic approach to textile
creative practices and reach new audiences. This is
design. An exhibition of collaborative work with a
done through our high quality brochure and marketing
number of local artists will be celebrated in the
that in 2014 is extending to reach digital audiences UK
company’s art studio. It will showcase recent work
and internationally.
with Cotswold wood engraver Andrew Davidson on Royal Oak, a modern toile interpretation of the English countryside as both a fabric and Wide Width Wallpaper; Jenny Stringer, a Cheltenham based artist whose block printing skills were transferred to create a beautiful floral linen, and Tetbury based artist and florist Su Trembath,
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NEW Select Trail Tours
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Mini coach tours to the Trail Studios
whose new work for the 2014 English Ethnic collection
Saturday 10 May & Sunday 11 May
have produced abstract designs which have become
Sit back, let the driver take the strain and enjoy visiting
the fashionable trend statement for this year.
the Select Trail artists. See page 41 of the main brochure for more details. Tickets are £6 for each trip
Full details in main brochure
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To book tickets contact SIT online www.sitselect.org
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NEW Living Books In 2014 we launch the Trail brochure as a Living Book. For the first time you will be able to view the Select brochures in full rich media with videos and interactive links to our makers works. This exciting leap forward
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comes at a time when SIT is radically developing its digital services and offers our readership an improved access to engage with us through environmentally friendly formats. We invite you to download our first Living Book to your tablet or smart phone by visiting the Apple App Store or
Buffin Media are proud supporters of
the Google Play store. Once downloaded to your device
digitialsing the Select brochures, learn
you will be able to store and archive all of SIT's digital
more about our digital impact on creative
publications from now on.
industry at www.bufffinmedia.com
below from left: george; moira buckley; anna simson
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photographs by Ben Wright www.benwrightphotography.co.uk As an established photographer based in London, Gloucestershire and Dorset, Ben has worked in the advertising, editorial, fashion and corporate arenas for two decades. Her portraits of classical artists, actors, sports and business people have appeared in publications worldwide.
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Thank you to Arts Council England Renishaw plc Stroud District Council
Patrons Professor Simon Olding Mary La Trobe Bateman OBE Jilly Edwards Margaret Benton Lulu Guinness OBE Editor Lizzi Walton Director Design Chris J Bailey Photographs Ben Wright Published by SIT
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Print Gemini-West.co.uk
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