an independent group of creative textile artists and stitchers
from Durham and the surrounding area
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an independent group of creative textile artists and stitchers from Durham and the surrounding area |
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Galleries from Stitching Ideas and Inspirations Ushaw Festival of Trees 2024 | Ushaw Summer Exhibition 2024 | Durham Castle Exhibition 2023 Winter Competition 2023 | Ushaw Exhibition 2022 | Winter Competition 2021 | Postcard Swap | Stitching Inspirations St Cuthbert's Pectoral Cross | Silver Hoops | Community Projects TAS-2-Durham is now well established as an active stitching group. Our membership continues to grow, with new members bringing ideas and inspiration to our works. Our Summer 2024 exhibition hosted by Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Garden opens on 22nd June. Please do come along to enjoy viewing our work. Our recent Exhibitions and Competitions include: 2024 Ushaw Historic House, Festival of Trees Nov-Dec 2024 2024 Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens. Summer Exhibition 2023 Durham Castle, as part of their 950th anniversary. 2022 Ushaw Historic House & Gardens. 2021 Winter Competion We are now inviting stitchers of all abilities who live in or near County Durham to visit one of our stitch sessions by pre-booking a place with our secretary: email Fred at tas2durham@gmail.com for more information. Ushaw House Festival of Trees 2024: Our group contribution to the annual Ushaw House Festival of Trees. Celebrating the festive season, the theme for 2024 is Angels. Our brief stated "your angel can be interpreted in any way, with any textile related materials. Reusing and recycling is encouraged". All our angels are no more than 5" tall - some smaller. This proved to be a perfect stitching project for our October and November meetings. As usual the ingenutiy, range of techniques, and skills of our members in creating these colourful tiny works of art is outstanding. Click here to view all the angels is our display for the Ushaw Festival of Trees 2024. Hosted by Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens (Durham) from June to September 2024. Our newly created group project takes pride of place; this large wall hanging comprises 42 individual hand stitched tiles inspired by the tiles and motifs of Ushaw. Our Young Stitchers group produced their own panel based on a Pugin motif. Over 50 other new pieces of unique stitched art and textiles are presented with several items for sale. Entrance fee or a visitors pass is required. Follow this link to see a display of the individual tiles for the group project and the individual works from the Ushaw Summer Exhibition 2024. 
‘Inspired by Ushaw’ – a small piece of embellished textile art, suitable for hanging from a wall. The worked area must be no bigger than 20cm square (8 inches) using any techniques. Three categories based on observations from Ushaw Historic House, Chapel & Gardens: Birds/Animals, Flowers/Foliage, or Tile/Architectural features
Follow this link to see a display of other entries from the Winter Competition 2023. Durham Castle Exhibition 2023: Fragments from History : 1st April to 30th June 2023 : Durham Castle DH1 3RW Our creative stitched textiles exhibition for 2023 was hosted and inspired by Durham Castle The brief was to take any aspect of the history, people, and architecture of the castle and then interpret our ideas through stitch. Following a morning furtle around the buildings, background stories of mythical creatures, bishops, and other interesting people were unearthed, the history of architecture and decorative items researched and studied. Our talented members love a challenge creating unique works of textile ar using traditional hand embroidery, machine embroidery, contemporary hand embroidery and of course a wealth of mixed media. Follow this link to see a display of works from the Durham Castle Exhibition 2023. Our first exhibition as TAS 2 Durham, Picking Up the Threads, was hosted by Ushaw Historic House & Gardens from June to August 2022. More than 100 pieces of work were on display during this period. The PDf version of the exhibition, with images of all the entries of work can be viewed from here.
A PDf document with details of the stitched squares from the Durham City in Summer Panel can be viewed from here. The theme for our first competition was inspired by the first face-to-face stitching session we held as an independent stitching group. Members were asked to create a new piece piece of work from two categories; a useful item or a decorative item, to include at least one hand-made button (Dorset, Yorkshire etc.), threaded wheels, bound or beaded rings and washers. As always the standard of work was very high. Helen's beautiful 3D vessel was voted the best decorative item and Denise's shashiko cushion (buttons on the back) was voted the best useful item.
Follow this link to see a display of works from the Winter 2021 Competition. Our first long term group project. Over a period of twelve months members created postcard sized textile art cards to swap with each other. Twenty four members completed the cycle creating four or five cards for each round. Our Sloooow Cloth group, of six members, each made one card to swap. The slide show below is a selection of cards from each of the themes.
All images reproduced with permission of the owner/maker and are copyright. Please do not copy without permission. The full sets of postcards can be seen on the Postcard Swap Gallery page, and we are in the process of creating short videos from each round of swap, which can be accessed from these links: Click this link for the Round 5, 'Winter' video of the postcard swap.
During the 2020 lock down, we used a series of monthly prompts to keep busy, stay sane and enjoy stitching small pieces of work. The gallery with the list of prompts can be seen here: Stitching Inspirations. If you have completed work from any of the suggestions and prompts from 2020, please send photos to the TAS-2 WhatsApp group for sharing, OR please email Penny, our web page editor (tas2durham@gmail.com) with a couple of photos of your work with a short description of what inspired you and the techniques you used. We won't publish your full name, just initials to ensure you are attributed to the work.
If your piece of work is the result of kit or a professional design or from a workshop/course please ensure you tell us the details to comply with current UK guidelines on copyright. For Example:
"inspired by an on-line workshop by xxxx 2022 ".
Using a silver hoop as the frame for a new piece of work the group were asked to design and stitch their ideas on the theme of silver.The hoops were going to be displayed as part of a public exhibition to promote the art of stitching. However, Covid-19 scuppered the plans for a physical exhibition so this virtual exhibition was created in its place. If you haven't shown us your finished hoop yet, please send some images to Penny for adding to this gallery. Click the gallery page of the Silver Hoops. Members are active in community and collaborative projects. These links will take you to galleries of work from those projects: The Needle Points North - the first collaborative project undertaken in 1996 and recently on display at the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018 and other locations in the North East during 2019. The 100 hearts War Stories project - from The Embroiderers’ Guild UK commemorates the ending of WW1 (The Great War 1914-1918) 100 years ago. 2016 Celebrating Capability Brown - The Embroiderers’ Guild was one of many partners in a nationwide festival celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown. During the course of 2016, more than 40 exhibitions were held throughout the country. Our gallery shows a selection of works from our members on display indoor and outdoor at Gibside Gardens and Chapel (Gateshead). More recent community projects include 'We will remember them' (2020), '100 years of Suffrage' (2018), Kneelers for St Michael's Church, Howick, Northumberland (2018), and the collaborative '70273 Project' (2017). Find us on....
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