1st April Talk by Catherine Hill “A Way With Words “

 The next meeting is on Tuesday 1st April upstairs in Alsager Library at 2pm.

Catherine Hill will be giving a talk on “A Way With Words”

Catherine is a self taught embroiderer and wordsmith. Her work centres around red hand-embroidered text which she uses to tell a story, share poetry, or convey a shared experience.

Some pieces incorporate her childhood memories growing up in the 1970’s, each hand stitched in vintage Sylko red thread as a nod to the red rose of her home county of Lancashire.

She is a multi-award winning artist who has exhibited across the UK and worldwide.

 

Wrought Linens with Sarah Thursfield 4th March

 A fascinating talk by Sarah based on the clothing itemised in a 1624(?) will of a spinster of means, comfortable off, but not noble or excessively wealthy. She showed us slides picking out the development of outfits from the late sixteenth century into the early seventeenth century. Wrought linens were the underclothes that had been embroidered or “wrought “.