Calling all Textile Lovers!

Help the climate crisis! Join our yarn bombing.Make art in textile. Help Textile Reclaim it’s place as a creation of wonder. And let’s build an installation to be reckoned with! All textile lovers are invited! Make a triangle 20 x 20 x 20 cm. Any textile medium – felting, knitting, crochet, embroidery, stitching, creative dyeing. […]

Textiles in Prison

Did you know that textiles were used as a gesture of rebellion in prison in the beginning of the 20th century? Can you guess what craft was considered upper class occupation and which working class necessity?  Come and hear Brian Crowley’s talk on textiles in prison this December. Dr. Niki Collier, our chair, is delighted to share […]

Festival of Inclusion

Join our Yarn Bombing Action Let’s use our creativity to build an installation to be reckoned with! All textile lovers are invited! Make a triangle 20 x 20 x 20 cm. Any textile medium – felting, knitting, crochet, embroidery, stitching, creative dyeing. Each triangle can use the topic of: Textile is Art! or Textile is […]

Textile Journey Festival 2023

The Textile Journey Festival is a celebration of creativity and all things wool, and textile. It includes a variety of events: a summer camp, demonstrations, open studios & workshops. The festival is an invitation to everyone: come and try making or exploring textiles. Lets connect to each other. Daily Demonstrations will showcase the skills of […]

Textile Journey Festival 2022

Textile Journey Festival is a celebration of creativity and all things wool, and textile. It includes a variety of events : summer camp, exhibition, demonstration, film screening, open studio. The festival is an invitation to everyone to try making or exploring textiles. It enables people to connect to each other. The festival launched the sharing panel- […]

TJ22: Open Studio

Part of the Textile Journey Festival 2022. 10am -4pm Saturday 6th August Niki Collier Open Studio Day- come and discover the womancave. Home to 50 scissors, 100kg of wool and 100 meters of silk.

TJ22: Demonstrations

Part of the Textile Journey Festival 2022. Curious to see how many journeys you can take with a handful of fibres or some old rugs? Join our inspiring panel of artists to see textile making, knitting, weaving and so much more 2pm – 5pm Mon 1st AugustEco dying & knitting with Niki Collier & Tanya […]

Textile Journey 2022 Group Show

The group sees the collective as a collaboration in growth. We have held our first exhibition as part of an exploration into stained glass in textile. The call out was for artists to respond to interpreting stained glass in their chosen textile medium. The exhibition ran at Pearse Museum from April to June and was […]