'We’re zipping up our boots…going back to our roots…yeah!'
Along with eating less, moving more and smiling : ) right at the top of our New Year Resolutions list for 2016 here at Bird Blue is to get back in touch with our CRAFT roots!
We’ll make a start by sending a great BIG THANK YOU to John Edgeler and all we met at the Long Room Gallery, Winchcombe . . .
A wonderful time was had learning more about the beautiful hand-printed textiles of Phyllis Barron (1890 - 1964) and Dorothy Larcher (1882-1952) - ‘celebrated as two of the finest hand-block printers of textiles working in Britain between the Wars'. London born, Art School trained, influenced by the hand-block printing they’d seen in France and India and based in local Painswick from the 1930’s, they produced a wide range of furnishing and dress fabrics - noted for their innovative designs and use of quality materials.
Speaker : Barley Roscoe MBE - former director of the Holburne Museum and Craft Study Centre Bath (now located at the University For The Creative Arts - Farnham) talked us through their life and works and we were lucky enough to not only see but to actually get to handle some of their fine textiles.
You can learn more about Barron and Larcher here
The Holburne Museum here
The Craft Study Centre here
and more about Winchcombe Archive Collection at the Long Room Gallery here
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