Just come back from a GORGEOUS day
at the Textile Society's 'Antique Textile Fair' at
the Armitage Centre in Fallowfied, Manchester!
This is an annual event, which celebrated its 21st birthday this year.
GEORGINA von ETZDORF ( of beautiful print fame)
was 'in conversation' with MARY SCHOESER
she had brought LOADS of scarves, ties, dressing-gowns etc with her
so THAT was a real treat!
In the afternoon there was a talk by JAQUELINE HYMAN
who is a textile conservator and worth listening to any time.
She was talking about the work she has done with Bolton Museum
on their Coptic and Ancient Egyptian textiles- she has such enthusiasm
and loves her work.
(I did a mini-course with her a number of years ago)
In between times I spent a small fortune on 'stuff''!
Mostly at 'DYEWORKS'
beautiful dyed linens
(you can see where this is going...)
beautiful LAND shades
then some linen threads (from a house clearance apparently)
a mini vacuum-cleaner from Jacqueline's 'RESTORE' stand-
(this is to give a commission of mine in the Quaker Meeting House in Chester
a Spring Clean)
then, cos I reckoned I could stitch some of this beautiful Linen
on the way home on the train
I went in search of some needles
(amazing hard to find surprisingly)
Will post photos tomo!
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