Category: Guild Meetings

February 2024

  Today’s meeting had to be re-scheduled.  The proposed workshop will now take place in May.   Sylvia very kindly stepped in sharing her drum carding skills and showed how to make batts, rolags and punis.  She used commercially dyed merino tops, Herdwick fleece and a bit of sparkle.     Currently, the Guild drum […]

January 2024

Happy New Year   For our January meeting we are very grateful to one of our long-standing members for her presentation on ‘paper craft’.  Judy undertook a City and Guilds course on paper craft (a while ago!) and brought along her course work to share with us.   What an astonishing array she produced: intricately folded card […]

Ecclesiastical Textiles October 28th 2023

  Croft Memorial Hall had been flooded on October 20th.  We were very lucky to have been able to hold our meeting and extend a huge ‘thank you’ to all involved in the clean up.  You can find more pictures of the extent of the flooding on Facebook ‘Croft Village Memorial Hall’.   Thanks to […]

The Great Northern Textile Show 2023

  Good to have new faces demonstrating in Manchester this year.  Cheryl, Jo and Margaret S. (along with Liz) exercised their public relations and craft skills with great aplomb. Although only having a fraction of the stand space compared with last year they managed to put on a splendid show.  Thanks to Janice for sending […]

Rigid Heddle Skill Share with Lorna

Back at Croft in September after our summer break members were able to benefit from Lorna’s rigid heddle skill share workshop.  Lorna was demonstrating a three colour clasped weft.   words: JFG  pics: Sylvia   A lot of work by members goes into preparing for these workshops and are much appreciated. Think of the cost […]

Out and about summer 2023

  North Cheshire members have had a busy time demonstrating their skills around the county.   In April Lorna and Sylvia were ‘upstairs’ at the Antique Textile Fair in Manchester able to liaise with other Craft Guilds and see the work of the graduate and post graduate textile students who apply for the Textile Society’s […]

Natural Dyeing 2023

  Inspired by Judy Hardman’s superb Natural Dyeing workshop last year Cheryl and Jo set about converting their experience to reality!  They used natural dye extracts: logwood, weld and chlorophyll to produce the stunning examples illustrated. Spun and ready for use!     Cheryl is hoping to host a natural dye workshop at the Macintyre […]

July 2023 Skill Share: Cotton Spinning

  Skill Share on Cotton Spinning   During the skill share on cotton spinning, members of North Cheshire learnt about the four main types of cotton plants. These are Pima/Supima, Egyptian, Sea Island and Upland. There are also some interesting crosses of Egyptian and South Sea Island which produces longer fibres which are much softer. […]

June 2023 Batik from Java

  The People Behind the Cloth   We were very pleased to welcome Jim and Sean Gaffney from Textile Traders for an in depth look at the people who produce the beautiful batik cloth.  Jim has been researching and buying the fabric for forty years and has become a personal friend of the skilled artists […]

May 2023 Hand carding, Drum Carding and Blending Board

Val demonstrate hand carding with a particular emphasis on producing small, ‘finger sized’ rolags’. These lend themselves well to long-drawn spinning. A reminder that rolags will produce a ‘woollen’ spin whereas drum carded fibres are parallel and give a ‘worsted’ spin.                     Janet demonstrated blending on […]

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