Saturday Guild Meeting | Berkshire Spinning Weaving Dyeing Guild

Janet Crowther - previous AGWSD Chair

‘Interlinked’

The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and all the opportunities it offers, what it is and how it works.

Mixed in with the openings I have taken through guild membership. I seem to have been involved with the world

of textiles forever, the shortages after WW2 and hating wearing my brother’s hand-me-down clothes, knitting

and stitching clothes for myself, discovering that I could

buy clothes ready made in a shop. Working for the

John Lewis Partnership, followed by teaching for

thirty six years, this job gave the pension.

A chance few lines in a guild newsletter lead to so many
doors opening. To exploring a range of textile techniques,

to involvement with the world of City and Guilds,

discovering the magic of dyeing, spinning which took

seven years to master, and that weaving must have been

in the genes having a three times great grandfather who

was a cotton weaver in Scotland on the cusp of industrialization of weaving.

Exhibiting with the AGWSD and other groups, being commissioned to create a textile response to Knole

National Trust House, Sevenoaks, using the much

overlooked tapestries to comment on their

conception through to their deterioration and decay.

To retirement from the GPC with ‘Swansong’, National

Exhibition 2024. Indigo and Natural dyes.

The textile adventures continue.

Business

Show and Tell

4.30pm - Chairs away

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