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The New Creative Markets Programme: Cockpit Arts

13 October 2014 General / New weave developments / News
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Cockpit Arts is an award winning social enterprise and the UK’s only creative-business incubator for designer-makers. Since they first started in 1986 they have helped thousands of talented craftspeople to grow their businesses, many of whom have gone on to achieve national and international success.

The New Creative Markets Programme at Cockpit Arts is a professional development programme designed to help designer-makers increase the sales of their work, consider and reach new markets, and achieve greater sustainability. This exciting new programme offers 12 hours of tailored support to give you the confidence and skills needed to develop or diversify your business, and get paid what you’re worth.

Cockpit Arts  work closely with participants to address their most pressing professional needs, and participants will have a diagnostic with a Cockpit Arts Business Coach to help  create individuals own programme. In addition to six essential workshops, we offer a mix of workshops and one-to-one support participants can pick and choose from to improve market understanding and your sales. With our growing pool of experts these sessions will help partcipants expand their market through new routes or products, and underpin this with the essentials.

Essentials include: selling and negotiation, crafting your writing, press & PR, brand development, pricing for the market, and increasing efficiency. Pick and choose from: market development for the retail or art market, exporting, product range development, digital presence, tax for creatives, contracts & intellectual property. Plus the opportunity for one-to-one support from Cockpit Arts’ Business Coaches, talks from industry specialists and networking with other artists/programme participants.
Please note the final programme is shaped based on the needs of the selected participants. Workshops will run approximately bi-monthly from January to June 2015.
Project part-financed by the European Union

This is a call for designer-makers. Apply for a FREE place on this programme to help increase sales and achieve greater sustainability. Deadline 15th October 2014.
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Profile: Humphries Weaving Company

30 September 2014 Company Profile / General / News
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Silk & Cotton Damask WeavingHumphries Weaving Company has launched a new ‘intuitive’ website to showcase its celebrated fabrics and weaving techniques to its clients. This is supported by a new branding initiative to highlight the company’s illustrious heritage and unique position in the market.

Humphries Weaving is a leading British manufacturer of custom Jacquard fabrics who combine historical knowledge with innovative weaving techniques of today to produce  fabric for Royal residences, historic properties and luxury private homes.

Director Richard Humphries states: “We have bid a fond farewell to our firm’s first trademark, Hannah the Weaver, who has been gracing our pages since the early 1970’s, to introduce our classic new branding to our valued clients.”

Following six months of intensive planning and research, the user focused website aims to display the exceptional quality of the work undertaken by Humphries Weaving to ensure clients get the most from their creative collaboration with the company.

Richard states “We planned the website and branding around our core values, our history and our firmly established position within the industry, letting the work for which we are renowned speak for itself.

“It gives a unique insight into the vast catalogue of historic and contemporary projects that we have had the privilege to work on. Also, for the first time, it brings together visual elements with important project information to give clients a fascinating insight into the design process.”

For more details contact:  fabrics@humphriesweaving.co.uk

Images & text : Humphries Weaving

 

Journal launch: Selected

29 September 2014 General / News / Publication
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SITselect journal issue 1 2014 cover webIssue 1: 10,000 Hours

Selected is a brand new bi-annual journal celebrating makers and making, passion and innovation.

Brought to you by SITSelect, it’s aim is to present a taste of the brilliance and the beauty that is around in the UK and the pleasure individual makers, designers and thinkers bring to our world.

The inaugural issue arrives on the shelves and on-line on October 1st 2014 and is filled with a mix of new talent, in-depth features and photographic essays. It includes an interview with coppice man, Sebastian Cox, a rare glimpse inside the studio of cast glass artists Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson and a limited edition honey drizzler made by the very talented Joseph Hartley.

Issue 1 has a limited print run and has been designed as a collector’s piece and comes with a unique bookmark made from Lewis & Wood’s Royal Oak wallpaper, created from a block print by master wood engraver Andrew Davidson.

You can buy on-line and subscribe to future issue by going to www.sitselect.org

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Texprint Winners: Paris

22 September 2014 Competitions / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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2014-09-17 18.30.46-7On 17 September 2014, Nino Cerruti presented prestigious prizes to the exceptional British-trained textile design graduates selected to exhibit under the auspices of Texprint at Indigo/Première Vision.

Nino Cerruti said, “The world is full of crazy artists – but we are industrial designers. We must be artists and designers.

The creative and imagination skills need to translate back into clothing and real applications. It is so pleasing to see that the next generation of designers selected to exhibit at Texprint 2014 understand the commercial imperatives that underpin successful design.”

Eminent representatives from the worlds of fashion, interiors, specialist textiles and retailing selected four highly talented graduates from British universities for prizes in the Colour, Pattern, Space and Body categories. 24 designers were in contention for the Texprint prizes, as well as The Woolmark Company Texprint Award and, new for 2014, the Miroglio Texprint Award for Digital Innovation. lululemon athletica had already announced the names of 2 winners. The winning designers each received £1000.00

Barbara Kennington, Chairman, Texprint said: “This exciting new edition of the Texprint showcase at Indigo/PV offers both fashion and interiors industries the opportunity to view the collections of rigorously selected ‘best of the best’ graduate textile designers, all trained in Britain. Their work is unique, exclusive, totally fresh; as designers each is highly talented, professional, and ready to take the textile industry by storm!”Nino Cerruti (Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti) and Agi Mdumulla and Sam Cotton of menswear brand Agi & Sam judge The Woolmark Company Texprint Award (2)

TEXPRINT® AWARDS 2014
The Texprint prizes were awarded as follows:Space: Georgia Fisher
Georgia Fisher completed an MA in Textiles: Weave at the Royal College of Art, having previously gained a BA in weave at Central St Martins. She was awarded bursaries in 2013 and 2014 from The Worshipful Company of Weavers and won the 2014 Jaeger competition. She gained work experience with The Jackson. Continue reading →

Texprint Weavers: Indigo, Paris

15 September 2014 Competitions / Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Texprint2013-logo-with382strapline_2spotcolTexprint interviews, mentors and promotes the UK’s most talented textile design graduates with the support of industry professionals worldwide.

Those selected are introduced to buyers, press and sponsors at the Texprint London event, and at Europe and Asia’s leading yarn and textile exhibitions.

Texprint is entirely funded by the generous sponsorship of industry and by British charitable foundations.  Their sponsors believe wholeheartedly in supporting textile design talent and in encouraging design innovation and excellence. Source: Texprint website

The following 2014 weave graduates were selected, initially exhibited their work in July in London and will each have a stand to show their designs  within ‘Texprint Village’ Hall 5 at Indigo trade Fair, Hall 5, Stand 5Y60, Première Vision Pluriel, Parc d’Expositions de Paris-Nord. Sept 16th – 18th 2015.

The winners of the awards will be announced in Paris on 17th Sept 2014 and the awards will be presented by Nino Cerruti, Designer and Head of the Biella based Textile Mill, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti.

Texprint Weavers

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Zanas’ work is described as contemporary woven textiles that mediate between concepts of social and digital impact, to facilitate innovative design for the body.

Zana is inspired by research into material innovation, and the crossovers between textiles and other disciplines, including science and socio-economics; also the intricacy and interplay of different cultures, materials and traditional weaving techniques. Zana graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London – BA (Hons) Textile Design. Zana has been selected for an internship in Como, Italy.

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Transition: Rethinking Textiles and Surfaces

12 September 2014 Conferences / General / News
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Transition-backgroundcropHuddersfield University Textile Department are holding a 2 day conference.

Textiles and Surfaces have surrounded us in different forms for millennia. Fibres and materials made from bark, wood, sand, glass, and skin became early textiles and surfaces developing into the multi structural unconventional materials for interior, architectural and wearable functional design that inspire, create and evolve our relationship with materials, space and form in our contemporary environment today.

The Re-Thinking context of the conference questions the future of textiles and surfaces, the industry and the importance of higher education within this industry. The conference aims at examining the current and future developments in textiles and surfaces asking what is the future of the textile and surface industries?

Dates: 26th – 27th November 2014

Key note speakers

Li Edelkoort, A trend forecaster, curator, publisher and educator who constantly lives in the future. Made a Honorary Royal Designer for Industry in 2014 by the RSA for her pioneering and inspirational life’s work

David Shah, A publisher at Metropolitan Publishing BV(Textile View, View 2, Viewpoint, Pantone View Colour Planner, Textile View VFF China Assistant Professor Renmin University Beijing.

There will be papers being delivered covering topics pertinent to:

  • Science and Technology
  • Sustainable Futures
  • Craftsmanship and the Hand Made
  • Enterprise/Industry/Business

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Rita Parniczky: Exhibitions

5 September 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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XRFC Towers-detail nat.lightRita Parniczky has been invited to lend a selection of her innovative hand woven wall pieces for the interactive  Building with Textiles exhibition at the Tilburg Textiel Musuem, The Netherlands  – This exhibition is featured on The Weave Shed .  She will be showing various works  including Pleatflow and a couple of new pieces from 2014.

Rita has previously exhibited in ‘Talent’ Designhaus,  Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2009   with her ‘X-Ray’ Fabric.XRayFabricPleatSeries-Pleatflow detail

The Textiel Museum presents work by internationally renowned architects as well as interior projects that put textiles in the spotlight. The exhibition is open to the public between 27th September 2014 and 25th January 2015.

She has also created `X-Ray Vaults` works  for the competition Silvery Threads run by the  Costume & Textile Association 25th Anniversary Celebration of Textiles which have been selected for an  exhibition at Norwich Cathedral from 2nd – 13th Oct 2014 Continue reading →

Tilburg Textiel Museum: Building with Textiles

4 September 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Parada Transformer 2008_ Bureau OMAIn Building with Textiles, the Tilburg Textiel Museum presents work by internationally renowned architects, as well as interior projects that put textiles in the spotlight. Building with textiles and flexible materials has aesthetic, functional and environmental advantages.
Textiles are now seen as the fifth key building material alongside steel, stone, concrete and wood. The development of interior textiles with special functions – from air purification to integrated light, images and sound – offers new possibilities to design smart and interactive interiors.

The exhibition is part of a larger, long-term project initiated by the TextielMuseum and the TextielLab. It comprises an extended research and development plan spanning several years, special commissions for the museum collection and expert meetings.

Dates: 27 September 2014 – 25 January 2015

BUILDING WITH TEXTILES – the exhibition

The exhibition presents a historical overview of the type of tent-like structures that provided shelter for early nomadic tribes. A life-sized Mongolian yurt forms the heart of this section, in addition to photos and films of various types of tents and their construction.
In the 20th century, visionary engineers and architects such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto and Haus Rucker & Co, put lightweight constructions back on the architectural agenda. The exhibition features highlights of their work in a series of images.

In addition, the museum brings together five visionary projects by international architects. These projects reveal the great potential of textile materials and techniques in building.

Taking pride of place is Prada Transformer (2008) see image above, by renowned Dutch agency OMA. Commissioned by Italian fashion label Prada, the structure is made up of a steel frame covered with an elastic PVC membrane. It can be positioned in four different ways, with the help of a crane. Each position serves a different purpose, encompassing everything from an exhibition space for fashion to a cinema. The remaining four projects are by Kennedy & Violich Architecture, DO|SU Studio Architecture, SL Rasch and SOMA.

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17th European Textile Network Conference 2015

1 September 2014 Conferences / Events / General / New weave developments / News
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Iris van Herpen 2010_ Photo credit Shamila & Eric ElenbaasThe 17th ETN Conference, including the General Assembly Leiden/Netherlands, is from 15th to 17th of May 2015
There are also many other events from 13th to 19th of May

Introduction

For this ETN Conference the invitation came from the Dutch “Textiel Festival”, a meeting place of several textile-related associations who have jointly have set up the STIDOC Foundation. This Festival, that started in 2000, is bringing together all the different fields of textiles (museums – adult education – professional training – textile craft, design and art) on all levels. It is unique in Europe for its wide scope.

This years edition has over 23 venues with exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops, a symposium of the Textielcommissie.nl Dutch textile curators association and the 17th ETN Conference.

Furthermore the Rijswijk Textile Biennial is taking place at Museum Rijswijk near The Hague.  A working committee was created to ensure the most interesting programme for the day on Dutch Textile Design, made up of Hanny Spierenburg, STIDOC festival organiser (project leader amateur art at LKCA, Landelijk Kennis instituut Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst) Anne Mieke Kooper, weaving artist and former Head of Textiles at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam; Christine Vroom, programme manager at “The New Institute”, Netherlands Institute for design and fashion; and Beatrijs Sterk, organiser of the ETN Conference and former publisher of Textile Forum magazine.

The Conference programme

16th May 2015
The conference venue will be the Ethnographic Museum of Leiden. Prominent speakers will give lectures, among them curator Ingeborg de Roode on “Textiles in the Context of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam”; Joke Robaard, lecturer at the Rietveld Academy to the theme of “Readable Structures”; Hebe Verstappen, head TextielLab at the Tilburg Textile Museum on “Research and Experiments” and Simone de Waart, founder and director of ´Material Sense´on” Material Mentality?”

Furthermore a well-known artist working with textiles, Barbara Broekman, will speak on “Technique and Craftsmanship” and a young promising textile designer, Lenneke Langenhuijs , will focus on sustainability in her talk called “Innovative Textiles”.

A  lecture will also be given by the company Materialise, where 3D printed haute couture of fashion designers such as  Iris van Herpen and Anouk Wipprecht are made.

17th May 2015
The networking day is offering the opportunity to give a 10 minutes/10 images speech for all ETN-members and guests. They prefer talks on projects involving more than one person and/or countries. Projects taking place in the Netherlands are especially welcome! Please register your talk at the ETN secretariat with title &summary. After the confirmation we will need the PowerPoint file in order to pre-arrange the technical part of this day. Continue reading →

Ruthin Craft Centre: As William Morris said…..

30 August 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Ruthin Craft Centre Image2014“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris

The Ruthin Craft Centre currently have an exhibition of contemporary craft objects, curated by Gregory Parsons, which have been designed and made by individuals whose creative practice the Gallery believe would engage and intrigue the influential Victorian.

Dates: 26 July – 21 September 2014

Exhibiting: Andrew Clancy / Jason Collingwood / David Colwell / Sebastian Cox / Jenny Crisp / David Frith / Kevin Gauld / Tanya Gomez / Joseph James Hartley / John Leach / Mourne Textiles / Gareth Neal / Catarina Riccabona / Michael Ruh / Daniel Smith / Philip Stevenson / Edward Teasdale / Richard La Trobe-Bateman / Derek Wilson.

Weaver Catarina Riccabona is among the exhibitors.  She designs and makes cushions, scarves and throws with each piece being hand-woven on a traditional loom and produced from start to finish in her studio in Southeast London.

Catarinas’ work is often inspired by tribal textiles, vintage grain sacks and linen towels as well as by memories of textiles from her childhood like mattress ticking or antique kilims. The look of her work is also determined by her very eco-friendly choice of yarns: linen, hemp, wool and alpaca (all undyed/unbleached and sourced from the UK and Europe).

Catarina_19.4.14 0942Coloured yarns are plant-dyed or second-hand (from donations) or simply the natural colour of the animal fleece. Her work can also be seen in The New Craftsmen outlet in Mayfair.

Catarina is also featured on The Crafted Studio  in a video. The Crafted Studio is a website in which the Independent craft researcher Grace Reff  travelled to Europe to meet and interview selected contemporary craft makers. She presents edited versions of the studio interviews in both printed and video formats on the site.

Other  weavers featured in the exhibition.
Mourne Textiles
Jason Collingwood
Jenny Chrisp

Images and Text from Ruthin Craft Centre website, Catarina Riccabona and Grace Reff

 

 

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