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Textile Talk

This podcast is for craft and textile enthusiasts all around the world. We"re constantly adding great interviews with textile artists, tutors and retailers plus a little advice on our own distance study courses in craft and much more. The School of Stitched Textiles is the largest UK provider of City & Guilds Accredited Textile based distance learning courses. You can find out site at https://www.sofst.org/. We also host the Stitch Directory, which showcases independent craft retailers and suppliers

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All Episodes

01:00:51

Artist Interview - Dr Jack Roberts

Textile Talk ·

2024/08/14

Dr. Jack Roberts, aka JPR Stitch is a fine artist whose primary medium is freehand machine embroidery. Hisart is formed from simple organic flowing abstract shapes, but is constructed from a dense and complex web of stitch. His stitchings are a reflection of the calmness, tranquillity and contentedness that he feels when sitting at the sewing machine and creating. Sewing is his meditation and the art emerges from this experience. “The experience is important to me, it rebalances me, but this sense

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01:03:55

Artist Interview - Helen Godden

Textile Talk ·

2024/06/26

Helen moved from Art to Art Quilting in 2004 and has enjoyed many international awards for her unique approach to machine quilting and creating art quilts. In 16 years of quilting, Helen has won 16 awards at Houston including the inaugural A World of Beauty and Master of Innovative Artistry. Helen’s work is predominately pictorial, with strong design and exciting play with colour. She uses her painting and design skills and creates whole cloth painted surface and then with her sewing machine, adds

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58:30

Artist Interview - Sarah de Rousset-Hall

Textile Talk ·

2024/06/05

Sarah de Rousset-Hall is a hand embroidery artist and teacher, she works as a tutor for the Royal School of Needlework and runs her own embroidery business, Sarah Stitches.Sarah came to embroidery as a second career, but has been embroidering as long as she can remember. Following on from a cancer diagnosis at 30, she returned to being a student a few years later to turn her hobby into a profession. Sarah graduated from the RSN’s Future Tutor Programme in 2020, and has been working as a professional

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57:18

Artist Interview - Jo Hamilton

Textile Talk ·

2024/04/17

Scottish artist Jo Hamilton moved to Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s, after earning her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art. Her technique combines years of fine art practice with the craft of crochet which she learned as a child from her Gran, rendering traditional categories, which include portraiture, landscape and nudes in a contemporary light. Her work has been widely shown in the U.S. and Europe as well as in Beijing, Australia and South Korea, and belongs to museums and private collections

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01:13:02

Artist Interview - Mr X Stitch aka Jamie Chalmers

Textile Talk ·

2024/03/14

Jamie Chalmers, aka Mr X Stitch, aka the Kingpin of Contemporary Embroidery, took up cross stitching fifteen years ago and he’s never looked back. Since establishing the Mr X Stitch website in 2008, he has been showcasing new talent in the world of needlework and textile art and has curated a number of stitch-based exhibitions in the UK and Ireland. He is the curator of PUSH Stitchery and the author of the Mr X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch. He is the founder of XStitch, the game-changing cross

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56:27

Retailer Interview - Kate Makin of Northern Yarn

Textile Talk ·

2024/03/04

Northern Yarn is an independent wool shop, situated in the historic city of Lancaster, with a stong focus on locally sourced British wool, including their own line produced from the fleeces of local flocks of sheep. Owner Kate Makin works together with local farmers, paying a higher price for good quality fleeces - then follows the process from sheep to skein creating a completely traceable product, using a renewable, local resource. The unique nature of the shop not only attracts visitors from all

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55:43

Artist Interview - Zoe Ingram

Textile Talk ·

2024/02/19

Zoë is a freelance artist, designer & illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland.She has an honours degree in industrial design for textiles (print) and enjoyed a career in graphic design & the creative arts spanning over twenty years. Zoë now focuses on illustration commissions and personal work.Zoë loves travelling, trying new foods and enjoyslifting weights in the gym. In her work, nature is Zoë's main source of inspiration and she uses a range of techniques in her work both traditional and

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56:00

Artist Interview - Appleton's Wools

Textile Talk ·

2023/11/27

Gail chats with Debbie and Di from Appletons Wools. Appletons brand of crewel and tapestry wool has been used for nearly 200 years across the globe in some of the most prestigious tapestries and embroideries in cathedrals, stately homes, and government buildings.Founded in 1835 by Thomas Appleton, Appletons is just as evangelical about British wool today as he was back then. All 425 colours are dyed and spun in Yorkshire and the wool is 100% British.The range, which is available in crewel, 2 ply and

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01:04:39

Artist Interview - Cas Holmes

Textile Talk ·

2023/10/24

Cas Holmes is a British artist, author and tutor of Romani heritage specialising in textile work with found materials. She trained in fine art and is interested in interdisciplinary projects in community and gallery settings to demonstrate the accessibility of mixed media textile processes. Her practice centres on the use of sustainable materials and themes surrounding issues of identity and place. Research in traditional paper and textile crafts in Japan and India continue to inform her practice

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57:31

Artist Interview - Allan Brown

Textile Talk ·

2023/09/26

The Nettle Dressis a modern fairy tale about the healing power of nature and craftdirected by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Dylan Howitt, released by Dartmouth Films in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from September 15. Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making adressfrom scratch, using 14,400 feet of thread made fromthefibre of locally foraged stingingnettles. In doing so, he relearns ancient crafts of foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing. Making adressthis way becomes

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48:08

Artist Interviews - Meredith Woolnough

Textile Talk ·

2023/09/11

Meredith Woolnough is a professional artist working out of her studio in Newcastle Australia. She is best known for her sculptural embroideries which are an exploration of art, science and nature. The embroideries are created using a unique freehand embroidery technique that utilises a domestic sewing machine and a fabric that dissolves in water. The work explores the beauty and fragility of nature, sparking a sense of wonder and appreciation of the natural world. Meredith believes that the deeper

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54:07

Artist Interviews - Christen Brown

Textile Talk ·

2023/05/24

Christen Brown was born in Manhattan Beach, California. She first became interested in fiber arts via making clothing for her dolls as a child. After graduating from high school, she continued her education at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, California, where she graduated with an associate in arts in fashion design.Christen began her career in the wearable art field in 1986. Her work has been shown in galleries and fashion shows all over the world. She has been

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56:07

Interview - Graham Stewart from Fiber52

Textile Talk ·

2023/03/22

Joining Gail on this episode is Graham Stewart, who is an international textile and apparel production fibre specialist.For the past two years, Graham has developed and patented a more sustainable process to bleach and dye cotton called Fibre 52.Fibre52 is an environmentally kind and cost-conscious process for dyeing cotton. It is a simple, inexpensive replacement for traditional and outdated cotton preparation methods. It uses natural products instead of heavy chemicals, working at lower

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49:58

Tutor Chats - Mistianne Guzman

Textile Talk ·

2023/02/08

Gail chats to Mistianne Guzman, who has been quilting since she was 25 years old and was going crazy for some color. She then walked into a store that had fabric and the rest is history. Mistianne is mostly self-taught. She not only creates quilts for the joy of it (the smaller the pieces the better), but also for competition, having had her quilts travel all over the world. One of her quilts wasused in a yearly calendar for clients. She has completed a skill stage 4 programme with School of

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59:09

Artist Interviews - Ruth Clayton

Textile Talk ·

2023/01/10

Ruth qualified as a Graphic Designer at Leeds Metropolitan University, specialising in illustration, in 1986. She then gained a teaching qualification at Manchester University. She has spent many years as an Art teacher working in high schools and tertiary Colleges. She now shares a studio with her partner Stuart Gray at Farfield Mill in Sedbergh, Cumbria, where they work, teach, and sell their paintings. You can find out more about Ruth or see her work on her website. Ruth also tutors an online

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59:45

Artist Interviews - Susan Hensel

Textile Talk ·

2022/10/25

Susan makes sculptural textile work combining mixed-media practices with fabric and embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She exploits the physics of light as it interacts with the structure of the triangular embroidery thread. The light scatters in multiple directions off the sides of the thread, creating different tones and saturations of the base color. She also exploits the science of optics, relying on our brain’s ability to optically mix spots of color in close physical proximity

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51:53

Tutor Chats - Deborah Jarvis

Textile Talk ·

2022/08/25

Gail and Debbie are chatting about how Debbie became interested in crafts, her favourite techniques, teaching online versus in the classroom, tips for getting the best from your tutor and how the group zoom sessions work.

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18:23

Introduction to School of Stitched Textiles

Textile Talk ·

2022/03/08

Dr Gail Cowley talking about School of Stitched Textiles and how their distance learning courses work.

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