Thursday 6th June 2013

This Thursday Clare Gage will be coming to talk to the guild about her experiences in running the Created Gallery in Chesterfield, her work in ceramics and career to date...

Tea at 7pm sharp ready for notices at 7.15 and the talk to begin at 7.30pm please.

Bookings will also open for our next workshop to be held on Saturday 7th September at the Quaker Meeting House on Ashgate Road.
Paul Johnson will guide you through the intricacies of making a pop-up house and garden with decorated  papers. Have a look at his website here http://www.bookart.co.uk/paul_johnson_works.html

Paul is an excellent educator and makes it all seem very easy and the process can translate into so many areas of design. The cost of the workshop will be £30 payable on booking, and I will have an example to show at Thursday's meeting - some of you will have seen it last year...

Dionne Workshop

Dionne Workshop, a set on Flickr.

Workshop with Dionne Swift May 2013

Just days after running a workshop for the guild, Dionne Swift has deservedly been selected as a finalist in the Craft and Design awards 2013.
Dionne taught us screen printing - beginning with positive and negative ideas, overprinting with a background cover using procion dyes. Hard edges were replaced by organic and naturalistic designs, with excellent teaching from Dionne.  Later in the day we experimented with 'manutex monoprinting' to create painterley liberated designs on fabric.

Everyone managed to avoid dye on the carpet! Many thanks to Dionne - an excellent day was had by all and we hope to see some stitched up samples at a guild meeting near you soon. 

Printing and painting

May 2nd Workshop - illuminated letters on fabric - run  by member Chris Commons

please bring 2x 4" squares of calico
some wipes  / 2-3 pieces of kitchen roll
couple of plastic bags for wet items
old newspaper
small paintbrush or two
small palette or saucer for mixing paint

there will be spares so don't sorry if you haven't any of the items.


At our April meeting Linda Bellinger shared a great deal of knowledge with us to create wonderful monoprints on fabirc. Linda was very generous with her time, knowledge and equipment and many members had a go on the night - see pictures to the right.

Many Thanks Linda

March 7th meeting

Gwenda Culkin, just returned from Nepal came to talk to us about the Nepalese Childrens Trust
Established in 2003  the charity was initially set up by ladies living within the East midlands region to provide a library for the Prisoners Assistance Nepal Children’s Home in Kathmandu, The Nepalese Children’s Trust has expanded its work to meet local needs as they arise.The charity is also helping Kanchha Babu Sherpa from Melamchighyang to attend university to become a doctor to enable him to return and help the local people.

Following the work done for the Prisoners’ Assistance Homes,   work extended to the school in Melamchigyang. a two day trek from Kathmandu. There is no electricity or running water in the area, and all supplies have to be carried in as there are no roads to the area.

News and events

Booking opened at this meeting for our May 10th workshop with Dionne Swift.
Dionne will take us through screen printing onto fabric. Please pay in full at time of booking

Lutterworth Enbroiderers Guild invite you to a costume presentation bt teh History Wardrobe - Agatha Christy and Art Deco. Saturday 20th April 2013 £12. contact marilyn Hemsley@btinternet.com 01455 554564

Matt Edwards from Derby City Museums came to run a mini workshop on Japanese stab binding for our Fenruary meeting, and final event at Eastwood Hall.

Matt has a Fine Art background, but discovered book binding whilst at university through RGAP originally based at Derby University.

Bookbinding is the process of fastening together the multiple pages which make up a given book, and covering the result.

Matt talked us through a little of the history and terminology of binding - Forwarders were the serwers and usually female (no surprise there) followed up by the binders (usually male..)
Traditionally, the craft of bookbinding is divided into the areas of forwarding and finishing. Forwarding consists of all the procedures leading up to the decoration of the covers. That is, folding the leaves into pages and gathering into signatures or quires, sewing them together, adding endpapers, attaching boards, and covering. In other words, the binding proper. Finishing is a specialized field involving gold (or blind) tooling, and sometimes inlay and onlay work: the artistic embellishment of the binding.

Caterpillar stitch

Here is a tutorial for a bookbinding stitch - 10 minutes - if you manage it lets see the results next meeting!