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International Yarn Bombing Day comes to a small town in West Yorkshire
Posted: 25/06/18 09:34 |
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Yarn Bombing has been around since the early 2000’s, springing up in different cities around the world under names like guerrilla knitting, yarn storming and urban knitting. It varies in style, aesthetics and meaning but it’s attitude is always warm and fun, bringing beauty to urban spaces. What is common is a sense of community, belonging and working together to improve or reconnect with the places we live.
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Why you should visit a degree show (textiles)
Posted: 13/06/18 09:28 |
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So why might it benefit you to visit a degree show? All textiles students whether studying at a distance, like you, or in a ‘bricks and mortar’ university ought to take note of their contemporaries creative outcomes.
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Royal College of Art Textiles Summer Show
Posted: 02/06/18 09:33 |
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Join OCA tutor Neil Musson on the 1 July in London.
The prestigious exhibition, which has been curated by Neil features 55 graduates showing a wide range of textiles. The exhibits will include MA work form conceptual to craft based textiles.
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Textile and Place Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University
Posted: 15/05/18 09:53 |
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As an educator it is always delightful to sit back and absorb the ideas and knowledge of others. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the Textile and Place Conference co organised by Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth Gallery. It proved to be two days of textile nourishment spending time with other textile types.
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Study visit: Orla Kiely
Posted: 08/05/18 09:12 |
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Join OCA tutor Priscilla Edwards on the 2 June at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
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Presenting student work: Ruth Venables yarn collection for A Textiles Vocabulary
Posted: 25/04/18 09:45 |
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What makes this particular student’s yarns so exciting is that she has clearly been inspired and demonstrates so well that she has been stimulated by her source material. Whether this is her secondary research in the form of a medieval artwork or her primary research in the colour studies of glass vessels, there are clear links and reference points between her work and its creative source.
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Experimental sketchbook development day
Posted: 02/04/18 09:06 |
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Join OCA textiles tutor Priscilla Edwards at Manchester Art Gallery on the 5 May.
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Jill Hodgkins
Posted: 26/03/18 09:12 |
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In this blog post I will be drawing to your attention and discussing the work of Textiles 3: Advanced student Jill Hodgkins. Jill has recently completed this unit and as part of the course she exhibited her work in a local gallery.
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Textiles: presenting work at assessment
Posted: 26/02/18 09:41 |
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The basic aim is that your work looks coherent and that the assessors can effortlessly navigate it. It may take you a couple of assessment events to get this right but as you progress through the degree programme, repeatedly sending work for assessment you will develop and perfect ways of organising your work.
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Successful sampling
Posted: 12/02/18 09:59 |
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Investigative and experimental sampling requires both an open-mind and a focussed approach to ensure the work created is coherent, exciting and new.
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