Amanda Jane Textiles

A challenging fabric!

Oast Quilters (a group which meets in Canterbury, Kent) set their members a challenge this year – to use the fabric below in a quilt: Sixteen members of the group (including me) took up the challenge. While I was thinking about what I would make, I received a postcard from a quilting friend in SwitzerlandContinueContinue reading “A challenging fabric!”

‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023

Today I’d like to share with you some photos from ‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023 at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. It illustrates – with a wide range of examples – ways in which textiles reflected political upheaval, were used for propaganda or functioned as a method of resistance, This beautiful 1914 lace panelContinueContinue reading “‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023”