Talk: Halcyon Days
Best of British handwoven and handblock printed textiles with Barley Roscoe MBE
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Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, Cambridge
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Talk: Viking Long Sheep
Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, CambridgeGrowing, spinning and dyeing Gotland sheep fleece, with Cara Booker of Brick House Farm.
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Talk: The Colourful Kitchen Cupboard
Michele Turner describes dyes from every-day foods and ingredients.
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Talk: Silk Roads
Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, CambridgeJourneys in Iran and Uzbekistan, with Sue Wallis.
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Guild AGM, Bring & Buy, ‘Fancy That’ Quiz
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Guild meeting and talk: Land of the Thunder Dragon – Bhutan, its landscapes, culture and textiles
Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, CambridgeA former V&A Artist in Residence, artist, designer & weaver Sue Lawty is drawn to wild places. Locked in the Himalayas, Bhutan has an enduring tradition of colourful hand-woven, highly patterned textiles, and is one of the wild landscapes through...
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Guild Day Goes International
Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, CambridgeGuild members may be aware that 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of UNESCO, the UN’s cultural heritage, education and social value organisation. The Cambridge Guild is taking the theme of ‘A World Tour of Textile Heritage’ in our programme for...
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CANCELLED: Guild meeting and talk – A Japanese Journey through Colour and Texture
Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, CambridgeThroughout her training to become a Kimono dresser at the age of 17, Momoka Gomi learnt the value of textiles and the preciousness of each piece of fabric. One of the 2019 cohort of Crafts Council-supported Hothouse Makers, Momoka weaves...
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Magic carpets: a journey through the make-up of antique rugs (video-conference on Zoom)
Zoom - link sent to members in advanceOur first guild meeting by video-conference! A link will be sent to Guild members in advance. Member Paul McGhee cheerfully admits to being addicted to rugs. He will tell us how this addiction took hold, and how this lead him...
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Creativity with a peg loom: colourful & easy weaving (video-conference on Zoom)
Zoom - link sent to members in advancePeg looms initially befuddle our logic as weavers with their loose warps and disarmingly easy weaving. Member Jane Brighouse will take us through her own exploration of peg loom weaving, showing us how to get started and what kind of...
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