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➔ Two weekends of open studios & artist led exhibitions Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 May 11am – 6pm Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 May 11am – 6pm Please note that certain studios will be open by appointment in the week

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Stroud International Textiles is a not for profit arts

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organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts with

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an emphasis on contemporary textiles and the applied arts/crafts. Select is an innovative annual festival that takes place every Spring.

Stroud International Textiles t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607 Please note the office is not open to visitors

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Welcome

craft at its origin

I am really pleased to have this opportunity to recommend

something enchanting and inspiring about watching an

the Select Trail for 2014. Stroud and the surrounding

experienced and talented maker at work – the

area are rich in craft talent and the Select Trail provides

combination of skill, rhythmic work, and design talent.

an opportunity to explore that richness in the glorious

That first-hand experience of meeting the maker,

surroundings of the town, its villages and countryside.

soaking up the workshop atmosphere and the artist-led exhibitions all adds immeasurably to the craft object.

We are really fortunate to have Stroud International

The Select Trail offers the opportunity to do just that.

Textiles working hard for the craft community in Gloucestershire and providing visitors with such a

Do try and visit as many venues as possible. Make the

fantastic experience. The Select Trail is just one way

most of this excellent opportunity of meeting the makers.

in which they support the wealth of professional

You will be impressed and entertained and, above all,

designer-makers in the Stroud Valleys.

bowled over by the quality and variety of work.

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On the trail you’ll be able to see a wide range of crafts

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and appreciate different approaches to design. There is

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Anne Rogers: Fine Felt Designs exhibiting in The Textile Studio The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 326853 e: annerogers66@hotmail.co.uk www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Anne’s work explores the versatility of felt as a medium through colour, texture and shape. She combines the finest merino wool with lightweight silk and cotton fabrics and wisps of silk, linen and metallic threads to create unique new textiles with a rich depth of colour and exciting textures. Her current collection includes nuno-felted seamless tops and jackets, textured silk and merino scarves, felted hats and gloves and delicate couture lampshades.

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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.

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Jenny Bicat The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA t: 01608 658676 e: jennybicat@bicat.co.uk www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Jenny Bicat trained in Fine Art. She puts colour into cloth drawing on her knowledge of painting. In her studio she develops, using traditional (non-digital)

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screen printing techniques, intricately engineered designs on silk and linen and calico – flat pattern pieces that she hand sews (then makes) into unique scarves, jackets and occasional décor pieces. She delights in combining the best traditions of Twentieth Century art and craft with the often sculptural experiments of modern fashion.

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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.

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Liz Lippiatt The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 412246 e: textile@liz-lippiatt.com www.liz-lippiatt.com www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Liz Lippiatt follows the great tradition of working with cloth in the Stroud Valleys. Liz designs and screenprints silk, velvet and fine linen creating collections for fashion and furnishings. She is renowned for her fine devoré silk velvets. In recent years Liz has worked on

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‘textile-led’ projects in collaboration with Studio Seven, a group of seven textile artists. The group has staged pioneering textile led performances and installations exploring unconventional ways of showing textiles.

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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.

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Liz Valenti Sticky Paper Studio, 2a Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QN

cutting, construction and finish have provided a rich

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background to her obsession for working with paper.

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Now joyfully released from the worlds of industry and education, she relishes the perversity of making clothes

Liz has been a fashion designer and a lecturer in fashion

and fabrics which, by being made in paper as well as

design since the 70s. Her knowledge and experience of

by being assembled behind sealed glass, are both

designing, researching, working with cloth, pattern

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At the bottom of Gloucester Street turn into Slad Road.

From the Stroud end of the Slad Road between Lloyds Pharmacy & the Co-op.

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Sue Ratcliffe 27 Springhill, Stroud GL5 1TN t: 01453 765667 e: smratcliffe@btinternet.com

pieces such as rich velvets, pastel cottons and rainbow wools to build up pieces having a myriad of colours and textures. Designs are built up in layers graduating shades, tones and texture to create a mosaic from fabric. Sue is a fan of Rothko and enjoys emulating the colour phasing of his work. She has worked with schools and projects to create pieces including memory rugs. Member of the Waterways Craft Guild.

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On foot: From Slad Road walk through Park Gardens up to an opening in the wall at the top of the gardens.

Go through the gateway and there is a complex of

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Springhill Co-Housing. Walk into the car park, past the car ports on your left to the end and follow the path round to the right. You will see some wooden steps in front of you, go up and 27 is the right hand door.

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By Car: From Slad Road drive up Folly Lane and turn into Springfield Road which is the second turning on the right. Park on Springfield Road if you can but parking is limited. There is no parking in Springhill itself.

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Environmentally sustainable works using mixed fabric

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Matthew Harris Uplands Cottage, 99 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 762539 e: mattjharris@homecall.co.uk www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk www.caa.org.uk Matthew Harris works with both cloth, paper and thread to create drawings/collages and textiles. By a process of dyeing, staining, cutting, piecing, stitching and binding he constructs work that is primarily concerned with the translation of drawn marks onto cloth. He has

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The studio is a short walk from Stroud town centre.

Uplands Cottage is in Slad Road, five houses along from the Fountain pub, off the B4070 Slad Road.

Take the path to the right of the house and go up the narrow path as far as the small green gate on the left.

Note parking is very limited in Slad Road.

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Marion Mitchell Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ m: 07958 949325 e: marion.mitchell@btinternet.com Marion creates small, unusual sculptures using stoneware clay, stains, oxides and glazes. They are inspired by how she sees and interprets the natural world that surrounds her. Most of them are totally non functional, but hopefully they give pleasure and meaning to the heart and to the eye.

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The Studio is a short walk from the town centre and is situated on the B4070 Slad Road. Coming from Stroud, there is a green gate approximately five houses along from the the Fountain pub, on the left hand side.

Go through the gate up the path and 105 can be found halfway up on the right.

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Victoria Underwood: Pottery Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1QZ e: edzombievix@yahoo.co.uk “There was a young woman from Devizes Whose pots were of varying sizes Some were so small And of no use at all

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And some so big they won prizes.’’

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Tara Davidson Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ m: 07948 966957 www.tarajaneceramics.com Based in her studio in Gloucestershire, Tara loves the smooth delicate simplicity of porcelain and the way colour outlines the detail of the antique lace she uses.

Each piece is formed by hand incorporating lace patterns from heirlooms and pieces found in antique shops, flea markets and country fairs.

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Valerie Jordan Cockshoot Cottage, Sheepscombe, Stroud GL6 7QY t: 01452 814441 e: valerieolsen@btinternet.com www.valeriejordan.com “As a practitioner my roots are in the tradition of landscape and still-life painting. My recent work has involved drawing painting, printing and sewing in direct response to the landscape of Miami and the Cotswolds.

I layer, superimpose and repeat details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells flowers, etc. within structures that echo both Eastern carpet design and formal grid of the city. I regard these ‘landmarks’, natural and man-made, as equally transient.”

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From Stroud take the B4070 through Slad to Bulls Cross, there take the Sheepscombe Road, this road is

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Take the right off this road, just before Beech Lane, the There is a quarry pull-in above the Cottage.

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Art Couture Painswick Art Couture Gallery, The Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Painswick, Stroud GL6 6QQ t: 01452 814522 e: frances@acpfestival.co.uk www.acpfestival.co.uk A collaboration between three textile artists: Jennifer Norris, Paula Marks and Frances Day, this will be an opportunity to watch art in action. They will be creating a large and impressive piece of wearable art in the gallery space run by Art Couture which will be completed over the Select Trail weekends. Other items of wearable art will be on display in the gallery, together with information on the techniques and inspiration for the piece under construction.

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From Stroud enter Painswick on the A46, go through the traffic lights in the middle of the village and take the next right into Bisley Street. The Painswick Centre is about 200m down on the left hand side.

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Gemma Sangwine Victoria Sangwine-Gould

Be inspired by stepping into the magpie world that is the

The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill,

shared studio of sisters Gemma Sangwine and Victoria

London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ

Sangwine-Gould. See how they transform reclaimed

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textiles and knits, vintage fabrics, buttons, lace,

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jewellery and remnants of fabrics and leathers into their

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distinctive ranges of fashion and interiors accessories.

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Studio will be open by appointment in the week

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The studio is out of Stroud on the London Road A419, past Bowbridge and The British Oak pub. Stafford Mills is the first mill complex on the right-hand side before ‘Karz N Trux’ motor dealers.

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Elaine Day The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ t: 01453 834130 e: elainejuneday@me.com www.elainedayjewellery.co.uk www.craftsingloucestershire.co.uk Elaine Day is a Jeweller and Silversmith. Working with sterling silver, gold, precious and semi precious stones she employs traditional techniques to produce unique ‘one off’ pieces. Her work reflects the flora and fauna she encounters, above and below water, in a personal

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and sometimes humorous way. Elaine has exhibited in galleries around the UK and with the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

Studio will be open by appointment in the week between Trail weekends. Please call before visiting.

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The studio is out of Stroud on the London Road A419, past Bowbridge and The British Oak pub. Stafford Mills is the first mill complex on the right-hand side before ‘Karz N Trux’ motor dealers.

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Nick Ozanne: Leto & Ariadne The Studio at Stafford Mills 16a Stafford Mill, t: 01453 751886 e: nick@letoariadne.com www.letoariadne.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Leto & Ariadne is the award winning studio label of

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Nick Ozanne, a hand weaver who creates tactile, wearable fabrics using luxurious natural fibres.

Trained at Winchester School of Art, Nick hand weaves cloth for fashion and interior accessories. His work is sold UK wide and in Paris.

Studio will be open by appointment in the week between Trail weekends. Please call before visiting.

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The studio is out of Stroud on the London Road A419, past Bowbridge and The British Oak pub. Stafford Mills is the first mill complex on the right-hand side before ‘Karz N Trux’ motor dealers.

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Polly Lyster: Dyeworks Woodside, Toadsmoor, Brimscombe GL5 2UL t: 01453 885036 e: thedyeworks@mac.com

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www.dyeworks.co.uk Polly’s dye business started 21 years ago when she became interested by the unique process and properties of indigo. This inspiration has developed into a fascination with colour. Polly dyes onto different fabrics from antique French hemp to fine silks – working with repeated dips into colour. Patterning is created by clamping, stitching and folding the cloth. The results are exquisite, exciting and desirable cloth for interiors and clothing.

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Studio found onToadsmoor Lane, 3 miles East of Stroud, along A419, turning left to Bussage,

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Eastcombe. You turn up Toadsmoor Lane, 1 mile up the hill, through the traffic lights and Woodside is on your right immediately after the lights opposite Robert Stevens Tyre Garage.

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Anna Simson: Ceramics

for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester.

Victoria Works Studios, London Road,

It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite

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Hallidays Mill. Parking is available on the roadside

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and in the layby on the Stroud side of the building.

e: anna@giraffe-view.com Taking inspiration from the shapes around us, in our homes and in nature, Anna creates beautiful objects for

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practical and decorative use. Fusing plain and patterned celedon and turquoise glazes with coloured glass to create tea-pots, mugs, bowls and vases alongside tactile ceramic representations of seed-pods using creative as well as traditional firing techniques.

In addition to the Weekend Trail, Anna will frequently be in her studio midweek for visits, although you may wish to phone first on 07970 224470 to avoid disappointment.

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Jill Watton Ceramics Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07891 249900 e: jillwatton@hotmail.com Jill makes wheel thrown ceramics in stoneware and porcelain. They are functional everyday objects that convey her love of throwing. Surface quality and the natural beauty of clay and glaze are allowed to take centre stage on the simple undecorated forms. Multiple firings explore the properties of clay and glaze and put their sheer materiality at the heart the work.

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Kate Montgomery: Clever Monty Furniture Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07791 129718 e: clevermonty@gmail.com www.clevermonty.co.uk Furniture with a story to tell... Kate is a writer with a passion for beautiful furniture. To create perfect heirlooms, Kate writes unique pieces of fiction and hides them in secret panels inside beautiful re-furbished pieces of furniture. Buyers can keep a copy of the story

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Victoria Works Studios is on the A419 at the junction for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester.

It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite Hallidays Mill. Parking is available on the roadside and in the layby on the Stroud side of the building.

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Manouche: Peter Simpson Nicky Bidmead Gallery Manouche, Hallidays Mill, London Road, Chalford GL6 8NR

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t: 01453 889626 e: studio.manouche@zen.co.uk www.manouche.org “We make mosaics, mirrors, clocks and curiosities from predominantly recycled materials. We gather ingredients from car boot sales, charity shops, skips and from visitor donations. Manouche means gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt. We endeavour to make stuff which is beautiful, colourful, vibrant, lively, sparky, melodic and improvised-just like the music!

We have a permanent open studio and gallery which exhibits both our own work and showcases the work of other artists and makers based at Hallidays Mill and locally.”

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Hallidays Mill is situated on the A419 opposite the Lavender Bakehouse in Chalford. Studio entrance door is on the canal towpath next door to Media Maker computers.

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Bill Rickinson: Ceramics 2 Anchor Terrace, High Street, Chalford GL6 8DS t: 01453 731167 m: 07791618575 e: s.birley167@btinternet.com Bill Rickenson’s work is in stoneware, and raku which roughly translates as ‘seeking contentment’, and is based on the Japanese firing technique associated with the tea ceremony. Each piece of work is unique, some having ‘lustre’ glazes, from the fire and smoking process. Tall forms combine ‘throwing’ and handbuilding. Many box forms are influenced by ancient carved wooden chests from the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

Other lidded forms have a ‘Viking’ influence.

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Take A419 from Stroud. At Chalford Green, 150 yards past Christ Church turn left into High Street (before phone box). House approx. quarter of mile on right.

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Sarah Hardaker Ramside, St Loes Pitch, off Culver Hill, Amberley GL5 5BB m: 07975 982885 e: info@sarahhardaker.co.uk www.sarahhardaker.co.uk “A background in print design and embroidery and a love of natural fabrics and all things softly coloured led me to start an interior textile company which embraces modern digital production methods whilst still using beautiful hand drawn designs. Soft chalky colours and vintage inspiration combine with beautiful hand drawn embroidery on natural linens and wools to create interior and lifestyle products and fabrics.”

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From the A46 go up Culver Hill (signposted Amberley) immediately after the cattle grid turn left up the steep lane, take the first road on the right and the house and studio are the first on the right. Please park in the

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From Minchinhampton Common, come down Culver Hill and immediately before the cattle grid turn right then as above.

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Cleo Mussi joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET m: 07791 653208 e: mussimosaics@homecall.co.uk www.mussimosaics.co.uk Cleo Mussi's mosaics are reconstructed from ceramic discard. She recycles marks, glazes, pattern and functional forms to produce beautiful strange and humorous pieces. These mosaics have tales to tell from genetic engineering and environmental issues as well as china tales from our own family histories. Cleo has created many major commissions and has exhibited

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On the A46 halfway between Stroud and Nailsworth.

Woodchester turning, ample parking and regular bus service from Stroud, Merry Walks, numbers 46 & 93.

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Annie Hewett joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 741236 e: ceramics@anniehewett.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk www.studiopottery.co.uk Annie makes domestic earthenware for everyday use.

She uses white clay for the engraved cobalt ware and red clay for the ‘Retro’ designs. These materials allow Annie the freedom to paint with and draw and cut through layers of coloured slip to create a spontaneous design on the surface. Each piece is unique.

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Moira B. Buckley joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 753483 e: puckshole@hotmail.com www.moirabuckley.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk

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Moira combines ideas, materials and techniques, from various disciplines to produce work that is enquiring and challenging. Some inspirations materialise into items of jewellery; other notions grow into larger creatures with story like qualities.

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are combined with vitreous enamel, precious and non-precious materials. General themes and inspiration which run through the work are notions of delicacy, fragility, and the strangeness of materials when seen up close and out of context.

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Dorothy Reglar joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01285 641109 e: dorothyreglar@aol.com www.newbreweryarts.org.uk The garments Dorothy makes are of natural fibres and natural dyes with an emphasis on ethical sourcing.

She works with weavers in North East Thailand and Laos. The experience she gained throughout her career in fashion has been put to a practical and beneficial use.

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Tessa Tyldesley joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 882647 e: tessatyldesley@tantraweb.co.uk Tessa designs jewellery using semi-precious stones and silver beads. Her approach to designing is very much influenced by her ‘painter’s eye’ and an empathy with colour. The combination of colour and texture creates implied movement. Her work can be seen in galleries

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Susan Early joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 812067 m: 07791 618575 e: susanearly@btinternet.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Susan Early makes traditional baskets and sculptural forms using English Somerset willow and hedgerow materials. She uses mainly English, Irish and French techniques when making her baskets and vessels alongside a variety of weaves. Her work is both

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Ursula Jeakins joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 883403 e: starsmeadbooks@gmail.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Ursula hand-sews and binds books which are designed to stop the eye and entice you to put pen to paper: to write, to draw, to create – a notebook, a commonplace book, a journal, scrapbook or personal album. Using dyed pastes she makes cover papers with rich sweeping colours. She also uses collage and recycled images as well as contemporary marbled papers and patterned papers by vintage designers such as

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Liz Brooke Ward showing at One Fat Quarter One Fat Quarter, Sewing Workshop, Tradeplas Building, Stroud Road, Nailsworth GL6 0BE t: 01453 751305 m: 07875 007674 e: stokenhill@hotmail.co.uk www.lizbrookeward.com www.lizbrookeward.com/stitch-in-time-blog.html www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk “I live and work in Whiteshill, near Stroud, have been a regular artist in residence at Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucester and exhibit and give talks about my work.

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Catherine Kingzett

weekends on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

showing at One Fat Quarter

(not Wednesday) 10am–4pm

One Fat Quarter, Sewing Workshop, Tradeplas Building, Stroud Road, Nailsworth GL6 0BE

The Sewing Workshop is just outside Nailsworth on

m: 07786 547820

the A46 to Stroud. From Stroud you will find it on the

e: cathmkingzett@aol.com

left just as you enter the 30mph speed limit of

www.onefatquarter.co.uk

Nailsworth. From Nailsworth toward Stroud, it is on the right just past Egypt Mill Hotel, approximately

Inspired by the changing seasons and the patterns and

300yds from the town centre.

textures created by nature over time, Catherine's embroideries are worked using machine and hand stitching. Having moved to a new workshop in July 2013

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In Nailsworth take the turning signposted Horsley

Textiles Workshop, Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road,

(Old Bristol Rd, on the south side of town). Ruskin

Nailsworth GL6 0LA

Mill is on the left after approx. ¼ mile. Parking is

m: 07905 239628

either in the Town Hall car park immediately on the

m: 07845 781224 workshop

right as you turn into Old Bristol Rd, or at Horsley

www.clareherrington.co.uk

Mill which can be found on the left further up the valley from Ruskin Mill. Walking from either car park

Clare is a maker who aims to create items that are both

is about 8 mins. Disabled car parking is available at

useful & beautiful, using reclaimed & remnant fabrics.

the front of Ruskin Mill. The studio is above the café.

Wools are dyed, felted and made into rugs, bags and cushions. Stunning linens transform the humble apron.

Pre loved denims with their unique characteristics are pieced together & quilted to make throws. One off pieces for sale, along with rug making supplies & kits.

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Helen Taylor: Taylored Felt Textiles Workshop, Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 0LA m: 0752 8857598 e: hctaylor2002@taylored-felt.com

Helen sculpts and ‘paints’ with wool using needle-felting and wet-felting techniques. Rare-breed fleece and plant-dyed fleece add a natural quality to her portraits of animals and owls. Her sculptures and wall-hangings have a light textured form that paradoxically captures

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nature’s fine detail but soft edges. Collections for 2014 will include large scale sculptures of owls, animal portraits and wall hangings inspired by water & sky.

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Lucy Birtles: Ceramics Seven Stars Cottage, Narrowcut Lane, Horsley GL6 0PS t: 01453 833960 t: 01453 836635 home www.lucybirtles.co.uk Handbuilt sculptural pieces in porcelain and stoneware.

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Kelly Kitsch Seven Stars Cottage, Narrowcut Lane, Horsley GL6 0PS t: 01453 833960 m: 07866 525187 e: sarah@kellykitsch.co.uk www.kellykitsch.co.uk “Kelly Kitsch began with a love of tat and a fascination with shrines. As an avid charity and junk shop visitor, my collection of obscure and discarded items has grown quite large. All these items seem special to me, and I want to give them the importance they deserve. Placing them in their own shrines, they are treated like little icons. Embellished with LED lights, fake flowers, tassels

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Annie Hutchinson Seven Stars Cottage, Narrowcut Lane, Horsley GL6 0PS m: 07792 695623 e: andynette@tiscali.co.uk Annie Hutchinson works from her garden studio in a village outside of Stroud. Developing her various notions with a view to capturing an atmosphere of the nature all

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Atelier: Katharina & Marianne Child Textile & Culture Club

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St Leonard’s Well, Stockley Way, Upton Hill GL4 8DF

Nelson Street, take right fork along Castle Street

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which turns into Lower Street. The studio is up on the

e: info@oliverberri.com

left in front of Piccadilly Mill. There is also plenty of

www.oliverberri.com

parking: Lower Street is one way so enter from Field Road opposite the hospital if driving.

Nadia and Natasha take there inspiration from a rich cultural palette of textile and design, the Oliver Berri duo create beautiful interiors that are both tailored and scaled to each unique project and individual.

For Select visitors Oliver Berri would like to offer free interior design consultations for people who come and

part, oidery, ..we are soft yarn

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19a Lower Street, Stroud GL5 2HT

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At Painswick turn left and follow the B4073 up past

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In 2014 we are raising the profile for design and the link

Woodchester Mill, North Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5NN

to the applied arts. Good craft isn’t just about function

t: 01453 878517

it should also deliver pleasure and satisfaction. We hope

e: office@lewisandwood.co.uk

to raise debate and place good craft design central to

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our well being.

Discovering and nurturing artistic talent from other

SIT makes a significant contribution to the economic

applied arts such as engravers, ceramicists, muralists

and cultural prosperity of the region through our year

and decorative painters to create a series of bold

round programme. In the Select Trail we offer

and diverse fabrics is a unique characteristic of Lewis

opportunities for participating artists to develop their

& Wood’s innovative and dynamic approach to textile

creative practices and reach new audiences. This is

design. An exhibition of collaborative work with a

done through our high quality brochure and marketing

number of local artists will be celebrated in the

that in 2014 is extending to reach digital audiences UK

company’s art studio. It will showcase recent work

and internationally.

with Cotswold wood engraver Andrew Davidson on Royal Oak, a modern toile interpretation of the English countryside as both a fabric and Wide Width Wallpaper; Jenny Stringer, a Cheltenham based artist whose block printing skills were transferred to create a beautiful floral linen, and Tetbury based artist and florist Su Trembath,

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NEW Select Trail Tours

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Mini coach tours to the Trail Studios

whose new work for the 2014 English Ethnic collection

Saturday 10 May & Sunday 11 May

have produced abstract designs which have become

Sit back, let the driver take the strain and enjoy visiting

the fashionable trend statement for this year.

the Select Trail artists. See page 41 of the main brochure for more details. Tickets are £6 for each trip

Full details in main brochure

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SIT aims to broaden the perspective of textile arts to

To book tickets contact SIT online www.sitselect.org

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NEW Living Books In 2014 we launch the Trail brochure as a Living Book.

For the first time you will be able to view the Select brochures in full rich media with videos and interactive links to our makers works. This exciting leap forward

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craft at its origin

comes at a time when SIT is radically developing its digital services and offers our readership an improved access to engage with us through environmentally friendly formats.

We invite you to download our first Living Book to your tablet or smart phone by visiting the Apple App Store or

Buffin Media are proud supporters of

the Google Play store. Once downloaded to your device

digitialsing the Select brochures, learn

you will be able to store and archive all of SIT's digital

more about our digital impact on creative

publications from now on.

industry at www.bufffinmedia.com

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photographs by Ben Wright www.benwrightphotography.co.uk As an established photographer based in London, Gloucestershire and Dorset, Ben has worked in the advertising, editorial, fashion and corporate arenas for two decades. Her portraits of classical artists, actors, sports and business people have appeared in publications worldwide.

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Thank you to Arts Council England Renishaw plc Stroud District Council

Patrons Professor Simon Olding Mary La Trobe Bateman OBE Jilly Edwards Margaret Benton Lulu Guinness OBE Editor Lizzi Walton Director Design Chris J Bailey Photographs Ben Wright Published by SIT

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Print Gemini-West.co.uk

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