My Mark Making With Machine class at Victoria College of Art had a great showing of their work in the studio this week. The project was...

I have been doing a lot of dyeing to get materials to work with for my BA studies. I have not yet been entirely successful with getting...

Some more examples of students' work using automatic stitches on their machines.

Here are the results of 2 exercises the class did last week. Such a variety of responses to one set of directions. Each student is...

I had fun at Kilshaw's auction house last night. I was interested in one lot - 2 thread paintings. I came home very pleased to have won...

We spent most of the morning examining our fabrics after tray dyeing. There was such a variety of results. We learnt so much from each...

The students in my Mark Making With Machine class yesterday worked on building up grounds to sample on. Using Leslie Morgan and Claire...

I have been dyeing using Leslie Morgan and Claire Benn's tray technique. I have decided it is an ideal way for a class to do some...

The show has been such a great success. On opening night 400 guests wandered in and out of the studios while they tucked into plates of...

The first Fine Arts Textiles course is nearly finished. We started with 2 basic hand stitches then spent 2 full days a week for 5 weeks...

The table cloth has been washed and ironed so now i can see the extent of the staining. There are lots of pink and black areas. ...and a...

Several months ago, just as the autumn leaves began to fall, i placed a table cloth under a maple tree. I watched as it became covered...

The students in the 'Mark Making with Stitch' class at Victoria College of Art may have looked and sounded as though they were just...

During a break in a snow storm I ventured outside to check on how my art projects were fairing. The cloths wrapped around the 4 trees...

Here are more books for the Textile Arts section of the Victoria College of Art library. These classics were donated by Marny and Barbara...

Students in the Mark Making with Thread course have been most generous in donating different things to the class sessions and the Textile...

More explorations of opening up the textile with stitch from Victoria College of Art students.