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Techniques: resources for embroidery, wearables, surface design, feltmaking, weaving...
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art space - latest artist

Diane Rogers is a textile artist/designer who graduated from Loughborough University with a BA in Textiles/Fashion. "I particularly like the smooth lustrous qualities of silk and enjoy the discord between the properties of silk as a medium and my subject matter..."

focus on... Felt Collage by Lyn Griffiths

Felt Collage is my title for the work I make using layer after layer of felt, fabric, found objects and a final layer of print. The method plays on the ability of wool fibres to migrate through fine fabric and attach firmly to that fabric. To quote the Russian feltmaker, Alexander Pilin, the wool fibres look for their brothers and sisters and then join together. More ...

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Visit Hand Embroidery Network	Visit stitchin fingers
Visit Fiber Arts/Mixed Media	Visit The Natural Surface

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We're proud to be providing a virtual home for Maggie Grey's Workshop on the Web - an exciting concept in online textile arts.

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Art Van Go - a huge range of artists materials by mail order or at The Studios, Knebworth. Download the catalogue...

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Stitch in Time
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Textile Holiday Tours is launched in the UK
Textile Holiday Tours is an exciting new business – "the first company in the UK to offer fully escorted, small group... more

creative kits from “Squidgy stuff”
A new concept in textile kits has been launched by "Squidgy stuff" called ‘course in a box’. They sell a series... more

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