Feltmakers,
We are seeking volunteers for The Knitting and Stitching Show 2017 which runs from the 9th through the 12th of November at the RDS.
If you can help out please contact Christine Maxwell via email.
Tag: Knitting and Stitching Show
2015 Knitting & Stitching Show
Join Feltmakers Ireland as a volunteer at the 2015 Knitting & Stitching Show. There are 3 time slots on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Help sell fibre, demo the wonders of felt making and chat with all the friends you haven’t seen since last year. Show is November 12-15th. Free entry for helpers with time to browse the goodies! Contact Christine 086 3640233 or christinemaxwell224@gmail.com
See you there!!
Purple Haze – theme for our stand at the Knitting & Stitching Show
The Dublin Knitting and Stitching show is nearly upon us, and we will, as ever, have a stand to promote our wonderful craft. We find people are very excited and inspired by the display of your work that we have each year, and we always try to be visually striking. So this year we want to really stand out from the crowd, and are asking for PURPLE pieces. In years gone by we have chosen a colour for a theme and it allows us to display the huge versatility of fine felt, while keeping a unified look. This is a great chance to show your work in a less formal way than a full exhibition. So go on, make us something purple. Purple jewellery, a purple hat, a purple bag, a perfect purple pansy picture! You can bring your piece to a Sunday Session or send it to either Maureen or Holly. We will be mounting the display on the Wednesday, November 11th, so will need your work before then. Go on, give it a go! But please understand that the space is limited, so keep that in mind.
Textile Exhibition Call Out
Thread Song
The DCCoI are holding the 6th annual textile exhibition for members at this year’s Knitting & Stitching Show in the RDS. The theme is the life and work of WB Yeats.
The DCCoI invited members to attend a day-long workshop on Monday 20th July. The morning session was presented by Medb Charleton, an introduction to The Life and Poetry of W.B Yeats and Yeats Poetry and the Fabric of History. The later part of the morning was taken up with a couple of short technical talks. The first was about framing, with some very valuable tips about framing your work for exhibition. This particular exhibition does not accept glass so that rules out any issues you might have with glass. We did look at the difference between regular glass and museum/archive glass, which contains a UV filter that will protect your work from light damage. The difference was amazing and the archive glass is certainly worth considering, despite the considerable price difference. The second technical session was about writing a successful application. Assessors and curators will receive many applications and will have to read through them all, so it is very important that yours is clearly written, concise and relevant.
Advice on writing application: http://www.ccoienterprise.ie/ideas/article/tips-advice-writing-application-forms
The afternoon session was a collaborative workshop, facilitated by Caroline Schofield. Caroline gave us an inspirational whistle-stop tour of her work. We then broke up into small groups and worked together to produce a visual interpretation inspired by the morning’s exploration of Yeats. This was great fun and fascinating to see how others responded visually to the words in a poem.
Details for applicants: Pieces must be contemporary in design and can be in any textile media utilising slow and/or fast craft techniques, handcrafted or digital technologies.
Work can take the form of literal or abstract interpretation, functional and non-functional, wearable and non-wearable.
Work will be selected based on excellence in design and making, its fit within the overall exhibition and creative interpretation of the brief.
Work must have been made within the last three years and not previously shown in The Knitting & Stitching Show or in any DCCoI exhibitions.
Successful applicants will have their work photographed and exhibited in The Knitting & Stitching Show. This exhibition may also travel to other venues both in Ireland and the UK.
The deadline for submissions is 22 September 2015. It would be fantastic to see lots of felt represented in the exhibition
Knitting & Stitching Show 2013
It’s Autumn so time for the Knitting & Stitching Show.
If you are planning to come to the Knitting & Stitching show in the RDS in Dublin please drop by our stand and say hello. We are situated on the back wall stand E55 where there is a selection from our recent exhibition “Origins: Felt in the Natural World” and ongoing demonstrations of feltmaking. We also have some gorgeous fine merino fibre from the Italian supplier DHG http://www.dhgshop.it – we are selling a large range of their beautiful wool at near cost price as a service to our members, we are also selling the off cuts of soap from Baresential, a company that make beautiful pure soap, the shavings are ideal for feltmaking and are also available at our stand http://www.baressential.ie/
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