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Fen Edge Stitched Textiles (FEST)

embroidery exhibition

at Blickling Hall, National Trust property in North Norfolk
11th April - 22nd April 2007

Blickling Hall is not open on Mondays or Tuesdays.
Further information from the National Trust at Blickling Hall, Norfolk.

About Fen Edge Stitched Textiles

The group was started in September 2002 and they meet six Saturdays a year at Cottenham Village College with their mentor, Pauline Verrinder. Advanced textile artiists go through a selection process to gain entry to the group, with no restrictions on where they live.

FEST has 15 members who are mainly from the east at present. The group aims to raise the profile of textile art by sharing and encouraging the personal development of its members work, and to extend their experience by exhibiting regularly both locally and nationally. Above all they indulge their passion for textiles and share it with others.

FEST has already exhibited at Textiles in Focus, nr. Cambridge and twice at the Fashion & Embroidery Show at Harrogate. In April 2007 the group are exhibiting at Blickling Hall, Norfolk and again at the Warner Archive, Braintree, Essex, in Spring 2008.

Bias and The Works Festival Of Art And Design, Alberta, Canada, are looking for people to participate in a fashion/art project.

Each participant will receive an identical kit that contains a selection of fabrics, notions, and some surprises. Participants then have one month to transform these raw materials in to a garment or work of art.

The deadline to sign up is Tuesday, March 20th, 2007. There is a fee of $30.00 to participate in the project, to cover the cost of the materials you are given.

Find out more and see pictures from previous Consistent Variable Projects at www.myspace.com/biasalberta

Download the Call for Participation (PDF).