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Textiles in Maker church, Cornwall

Last week, I was staying on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall, to celebrate a family occasion. During the week, I went to visit the church of St Mary and St Julian at Maker and found a treasury of interesting textile items within. At the moment, the church has scaffolding around its tower. This is theContinueContinue reading “Textiles in Maker church, Cornwall”

Michala Gyetvai, textile artist

I first came across Michala’s work at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Edinburgh in 2016, where she had an exhibition entitled ‘Enchanted Landscapes’. Michala Gyetvai, photo by Amanda Jane Ogden Michala’s work is unusual and most striking. She works from pastel sketches of the landscape and then re-works them in fibres and threads ontoContinueContinue reading “Michala Gyetvai, textile artist”