Contemporary Textiles Lecture: Looking Beyond Needle And Thread

To help us understand how we have evolved a more Contemporary style of textiles in the twenty-first Century that goes beyond needle and thread, I will firstly take the group on a journey back in time to explore the history of stitch from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. This part of the talk will explore changes in not only technical processes, but in addition, look at how social & cultural factors have introduced a progressively more modern way of seeing textiles as a design subject and an art form.

Anne Davies, freelance textile and mixed-media artist, writer and teacher.