Connecting Threads

The Textiles of Mankind exhibition has opened at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, close to London Bridge Station, incorporating a whole room on the work of Lynn Setterington. If you’re interested in textiles it’s a must see.
Join the artist-embroiderer as she shares some of her pivotal textile projects which feature in her new book Connecting Threads. 
She will be speaking at David Parr House, Cambridge, on 23 April and at Fashion and Textile Museum on 22 May at 6pm and Friday 9 May, talk with curator Mary Schoeser.
There was a great review of the book on maker Ailish Henderson’s blog, which you can read here.

Prof Kate Fletcher will be in conversation about sustainable fashion and her book, Fletcher’s Almanac at the Hay Festival this year on Sunday 25 May. You can book tickets here.
Sue Brown’s Same Sea, Different Boat, which features in Intelligent Hands, is on show at Nature in Art 12–27 April, Twigworth, Gloucestershire. We’re delighted that Sue Brown is currently working on a book for Quickthorn about printing and nature, due out next year.

The Red Dress

The Red Dress is off to the printers and we’ll be posting out your pre-ordered copies in May. There is a launch event, which will include the dress itself, at RWA Bristol on Tuesday 27 May (we’ll let you know on Instagram when the link to tickets goes live). There is also a talk on 28 May at Hatchards bookshop, on the Promenade in Cheltenham, where Kirstie will be talking a running a workshop.
next up is the WOVEN festival in Kirklees where the dress is taking up residence for June. Kirstie will be giving a talk on 1 June. See more information here.