On Demand: TALKING THREADS: Jayne Emerson and Libby Ashdown
The Embroiderers' Guild presents TALKING THREADS: NO RULES: a talk between Jayne Emerson and Libby Ashdown
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EG Talking Threads - A talk between Jayne Emerson and Libby Ashdown.
Jayne Emerson is the founder of the ‘No Rules Textile Society’ which focuses on exploring new techniques and ideas and ‘what if’. Libby Ashdown is one of the few makers of passementerie in the country and creates ‘playful art works’. Both are passionate about their work and sharing their discoveries with others and putting a modern spin on traditional and historical practices.
This should be an exciting exchange of ideas and the chance to see two great makers exploring what-ifs, happy accidents, and the cross-pollination of textile techniques, along with their art and plans.
Please note that this ticket is for the recording of the event on 12 September. Tickets for the live event are available here. The recording is not downloadable but will be available for viewing until at least 19 October, 2024.
Jayne Emerson
Jayne Emerson is a conceptual textile designer living in rural Gloucestershire. For the past 30 years, she has sold her innovative design samples to clients ranging from Chanel and Dior to John Lewis and Boden.
She loves to reimagine textile techniques and mix them up into 'Fabric Recipes'. She predominantly uses reclaimed and vintage cloth and her process champions play and material-led exploration.
She shares her ideas via her online courses and membership No Rules Textile Society.
Textile design online courses
Libby Ashdown
One of only a few hand Passementerie artists working in the UK today, Elizabeth Ashdown combines traditional and endangered craft skills with a contemporary aesthetic in order to create intriguing, energetic and playful art works and bespoke lengths of passementerie.
Working from her studio in London, she creates work for a diverse range of clients including creating hand woven, bespoke artwork commissions for private collectors, to creating artworks for exhibitions and weaving bespoke passementerie lengths. Libby has exhibited her passementerie artworks both nationally and internationally and in 2023 was awarded the first Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust ADAM Architecture Scholarship for passementerie.
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