Festival Events

YES - YOU CAN DO IT

2 Day Workshop with Tilleke Schwarz

Date: Saturday 30 April 10 am – 3 pm &
Sunday 1 May 10am – 5 pm
Venue: Red Dog Studio, Gloucester Street Stroud GL5 1QG

Enjoy the adventure of designing your own work. The focus of the workshop is on design, encouraging originality and innovation. You will start with exercises in mixed media & collage, using fast techniques on paper before exploring some of Tillike’s favourite embroidery techniques and learning putting image onto to cloth. There will be a mix of hand embroidery but appliqué and drawing are all incorporated into this fascinating and inspiring workshop. You will start your own work so bring threads and cloth.

Anyone with a love of stitch can participate, there is no special skill required just an open mind and a sense of humour!

Course fee: £80 (Friends of SIT £70)

SOCK IT SOON

workshop with Imogen Harvey-Lewis

Date: Sunday 15 May 10 am - 4 pm
Venue: Red Dog Studio, Gloucester Street Stroud GL5 1QG

 By popular demand artist, illustrator and maker Imogen Harvey-Lewis shares some of her secrets in the making of Soons. Soons are hand crafted pocket sized creatures made from odd socks. They are simple, quirky and are very well behaved.

Join Imogen in this fun making workshop and learn how to make a range of loveable sock friends. Turn your old socks into weird and wonderful  creatures with a little bit of help and a whole lot of inventiveness.
 
Ideal for people of all ages , families and children over 7. All children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Bring old socks, all other materials will be provided.

Fee: Kids £5.00 Adults £25  Friends of SIT £20

FASHIONED by STITCH

2 Day Workshop with SUE RANGELEY

Date: Saturday 21st May 11am – 4pm &
Sunday 22nd May  11am - 4.30pm
Venue: Gallery 2 Museum in the Park Stroud GL5 4AF

This workshop offers a fusion of design and creative embroidery, with techniques to inspire fashion textiles and artful embellishments.

Students will explore a range of processes, to include: machine-stitched lace using soluble stabilizers; appliqué and cutwork sheers; fabric manipulation; machine-embroidered textures. Specialist tuition,  and inspiring displays of unique samples and designs.

The artistry of stitch stimulates directions for a wearable art.
Sue Rangeley’s exquisite embroideries have inspired and influenced generations of students, in UK and internationally. With works in private and public collections, her textiles have featured in numerous publications. ‘Embroidered Originals’, her first book was published in 2010.

Requirements list to be sent on booking.

Materials available to purchase in class

Tickets: £55 Friends of SIT £50

OFF THE PAGE: DEVELOPING IDEAS IN THREE DIMENSIONS

2 Day Workshop with Jessica Turrell
Date: Saturday 21 May 10 am – 4 pm &
Sunday 21 May 11 am – 4 pm
Venue: Red Dog Studio, Gloucester Street
Stroud GL5 1QG

This dynamic two-day workshop will focus on techniques for the generation of ideas and design concepts using found materials and mixed media. Students will work through a series of projects that will allow them to quickly generate ideas in three dimensions as a starting point for the creation of jewellery and small objects.

The workshop will encourage participants to reflect on their own making processes and personal aesthetic and introduce strategies for the development of their individual visual vocabulary.

You will be encouraged and supported to experiment, explore and play.

Jessica has work in the ‘Wordplay’ exhibition in the Festival.

A full materials and equipment list will be provided on enrolment.

Tickets: £50 Friends of SIT £45

The Craft of Collecting Textiles

Speaker: Prof Simon Olding
Date: Saturday 30th April at 2pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£5/£4(Friends of SIT)

Collections and Collecting

Speaker: Mary La Trobe Bateman
Date: Saturday 30th April at 3.30pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£5/£4(Friends of SIT)

Exploring Woven Structures

Speaker: Sue Hiley Harris
Date: Sunday 1 May 11.30 am
Venue: Museum in the Park, Stroud GL5 1QG
Tickets: £4.50

Traces

Speaker: Jessica Turrell
Date: Sunday 1st May at 2.30pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£6/£5(Friends of SIT)

Print Patterns

Speaker: Simon Packard
Date: Sunday 1st May at 4pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£5/£4(Friends of SIT)

Off The Loom

A day of talks
Date: Sunday 8th May at 11am-5pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£40/£35 (Students/Friends of SIT)
£5.00 for light lunch

A Day of talks and debate
Hosted by Laura Thomas, this day of talks will celebrate some of the innovative applications and aesthetic explorations in contemporary weave practice.
With a respectful nod to tradition, the invited speakers are all forging new ground within the fashion, science, furnishings and art spheres taking weave into dynamic new arenas. From e-textiles to art for architectural spaces, each speaker is a pioneer in their discipline and is taking their expertise into unexpected arenas.
The seminar will give plenty of opportunity for discussion, debate and exploration.

Speakers:
Laura Thomas, artist, curator and design consultant. Well known for her trademark encapsulation of delicate textile structures in acrylic resin, recent significant commissions include a Museumaker project to design a triptych window for The Beaney Museum and Art Gallery in Canterbury and a vessel presented to Cricket Australia from the Welsh Assembly Government to commemorate the Ashes being played in Cardiff in 2009.  A recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassador Award from the Arts Council of Wales, Laura is currently developing new bodies of work in residence at the Ruthin Craft Centre.
 Asha Peta Thompson, is a founding partner of Intelligent Textiles Ltd (ITL)along with Stan Swallow.  Asha is an expert in woven technical textiles, specifically electronically active ‘e-textiles’.  The ITL patented processes have been applied to many products and principles from heated bedding to iPod connected garments. Recent press coverage has focussed on their partnering with the Ministry of Defence to develop embedded technical functionality into military clothing, predominantly as a replacement for conventional cables in soldier systems.

Lunch Break (an optional lunch can be purchased for £5 if required)

 Kirsty McDougall, is one half of Dashing Tweeds, Britain’s latest tweed textile company. Opening up a contemporary arena for a classic quality fabric, Dashing Tweeds has created a range of tweeds for the 21st century, designed by photographer Guy Hills and weaver Kirsty McDougall. Quirky colour palettes, inventive yarn combinations and sophisticated tactile qualities have taken the traditional tweed into uncharted territory, winning them fans across the fashion world. Of particular note is their LumaTwill™ range which is a fusion of technical sportswear with elegant tweed cloth. Light reflective yarns punctuate the woollen checks, so when worn at night it illuminates as light hits the fabric.

Melissa French, artist, designer and coordinator of the Puff & Flock textile collective. Melissa’s practice sees her span the commercial and conceptual sphere.  A graduate of the renowned MA Textile Futures at Central St Martins, Melissa has garnered a reputation for work that questions the expected application of woven textiles.  Her Urban Upholstery concept takes textiles beyond decoration.  This time-based work integrates various metals in her woven fabrics to enable them to endure time and weather whist evolving through natural rusting or oxidising. Inspired by graffiti, urban guerrilla movements and traditional interior textiles and design, Melissa wants to bring an element of beauty, pattern, design and ultimately surprise to the urban landscape.
Ptolemy Mann, artist and architectural colour consultant. Renowned for her impeccable eye for colour, Ptolemy produces striking ikat dyed woven artworks for corporate, commercial and domestic spaces, which have been exhibited and specified all over the world. Working with a UK manufacturer, she has also recently added limited edition mill woven cloth to her repertoire, suitable for cushions, drapes and other applications.  Ptolemy is also in demand as an architectural colour consultant, bringing vibrant palette’s to the usually colour-shy world of external facades, as well as devising internal colour schemes for healthcare environments to aid way finding and psychological well being.

This seminar is sponsored by Renishaw plc

LATE NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

The Cutting Room
A film by Pip and Ali Heywood”
Friday 13th May at 5pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£6/£12 (for all 3 Late Night talks)

LATE NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

The Language of Alsadu Weaving
Speaker: Dr Keireine Canavan”
Friday 13th May at 6.30pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
£6/£12 (for all 3 Late night talks)

LATE NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Burnished and Beaten: Spiritual Indigo Cloth
Speaker: Martin Conlan
Friday 13th May at 8pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF

£6/£12 (for all 3 Late Night talks)

The Big Screen: Tapestry as an Early Animated Art Form

Speaker: Jenny Band
Date: Saturday 14th May at 11.30am
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF

£5/£4 (Friends of SIT)

Unravelling the Mystery of Woven Tapestry

Speaker: Lynsay Shepard
Date: Saturday 14th May at 1pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF

£5/£4 (Friends of SIT)

Transparent Boundaries

Speaker: Lesley Millar
Date: Saturday 14th May at 3pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF

£7  / £5 (Friends of SIT)

Pairings – Collaborations Across Medias”

Speaker: Alice Kettle
Date: Saturday 14th May at 5pm
Venue: Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF

£6/£5 (Friends of SIT)

DEVELOPING A FASHION FABRICS COLLECTION

Speaker: TIM PARRY-WILLIAMS
Date: Sunday 15 MAY 12 noon
Venue: Gallery 2 Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
Tickets: £5 or £12.00 for all three talks

THE SHAPE OF A HAT: MILLINERY IN 20TH CENTURY

Speaker: SARAH CANT
Date: Sunday 15 MAY 1.30 PM
Venue: Gallery 2 Museum in the Park
Stroud GL5 4AF
Tickets: £5 or £12 for all three talks