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		<title>Elsewhere Collaborative residencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 residencies for artists, curators, scholars, designers and creatives of
all kinds

Elsewhere Collaborative, a living museum and experimental production
environment in downtown Greensboro, NC, is now accepting applications from
artists, curators, writers, musicians, designers, gardeners, makers,
builders, scholars, producers, and creatives across media for residencies in
2010.
Elsewhere is set within a three-storey former thrift store, boarding
house, and warehouse containing one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/12/08/elsewhere-collaborative-residencies/</link>
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		<title>Stitch in Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stitch in Time is a Heritage Lottery Funded Young Roots project focusing on creative art and fashion to engage young people in traditional heritage textiles and contemporary customised fashion.

The exhibition showcases the results of workshops, gallery visits and consideration of current fashion issues including body image, identity, eco fashion and photographic styling.

All of the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/10/27/stitch-in-time/</link>
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		<title>Textile Holiday Tours is launched in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Textile Holiday Tours is an exciting new business –  &#34;the first company in the UK to offer fully escorted, small group textile breaks around the UK&#34;.
The tours aim to delight and inspire participants with the rich variety of  textiles, both traditional and contemporary, in stately homes, churches, cathedrals, castles, cottages and studios. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/10/20/textile-holiday-tours-is-launched-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<title>creative kits from &#8220;Squidgy stuff&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new concept in textile kits has been launched by &#34;Squidgy stuff&#34; called ‘course in a box’.
 
 
They sell a series of beginners' kits in patchwork, embroidery and appliqu&#233;, which contain four separate projects and a whole wealth of techniques.  The ‘course in a box’ is aimed at beginners from teenage to pensioners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/02/25/creative-course-in-a-box/</link>
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		<title>Interdependence tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Fiber Collaborative project for 2008-2009 is Interdependence. Participants will create a full-sized tree for display in April 2009 at Big Springs International Park in Huntsville, Alabama. The idea is to symbolise the interdependence of of different elements of society - family units, communities, and countries, much as the leaves and roots of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/02/09/interdependence-tree/</link>
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		<title>River and Cloth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Job opportunities for textile artists - get involved with the River and Cloth project in the London Borough of Merton. Foir more information see the Embroiderers' Guild web site.
Deadline 12th January 2009]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2009/01/06/river-and-cloth/</link>
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		<title>Embloggery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embloggery is a fascinating project - seeking, in artist Nicole Wolfersberger's words  
 &#34;to examine the implications of the fact that we now have the ability to disseminate widely something written very quickly, to a potentially very large audience&#34;

Each entry in the blog is a digital image of a hand embroidered diary entry. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2008/12/12/embloggery/</link>
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		<title>Manchester Craft Mafia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Manchester Craft Mafia are holding a Christmas Market at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, on 13th and 14th December 2008, where you can &#34;peruse a delectable range of contemporary textile and paper based handmade gifts&#34;.

More info on their web site.
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		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2008/12/07/manchester-craft-mafia/</link>
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		<title>Art Van Go blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Art Van Go have recently started a blog - http://artvango.blogspot.com/, with workshop reports, information and tales of what goes on behind the scenes at 'the studios' in Knebworth, and when they're out and about on the road. It's a good read with some luscious images of textiles from their workshops and exhibitions.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2008/12/04/art-van-go-blog/</link>
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		<title>WelshArtNow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WelshArtNow (WAN) is a new quarterly art magazine that discusses art with a Welsh connection. WAN will ride on the crest of positive change and the sense of optimism that defines modern Wales; there would not seem a better time to launch a new and dynamic cultural arts magazine.
The magazine will feature a wide range [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2008/11/26/welshartnow/</link>
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