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Fiber Talk with Rita Gekht

We’ll Rise Again by Rita Gekht.
Bending with the Blues by Rita Gekht.

We’re weaving this week with artist Rita Gekht of Rita’s Dream Studio and the New Hope Arts Center. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, the best thing you can add to your stash. When Rita began her studies she was focused on becoming a computer scientist. A class with Michelle Lester changed everything and she found her calling in the world of warps and wefts. In our conversation we learn how that happened and how she ended up breaking new ground in the weaving world. Rita is also an integral part of the New Hope Arts Center in New Hope, PA. She will join us live for the July 24 Fiber Talk Stitch Hour to give us a tour “Structures & Constructions in Fiber, an exhibit Rita curated for the New Hope Arts Center–Beth and Gary

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Fiber Talk with Dr. Susan Kay-Williams & Dr. Isabella Rosner, RSN

Embroidered slippers from the Royal School of Needlework collection.
Tambour jacket from the Royal School of Needlework collection.

Dr. Susan Kay-Williams, Executive Director of the Royal School of Needlework, returns this week, along with RSN Curator Dr. Isabella Rosner, in a show sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Our topic for this sixth visit from the folks at the Royal School is digitizing the entire Royal School of Needlework collection. This is the second, along with the RSN Stitch Bank, project that promises to significantly change the knowledge base needleworkers have at their disposal. Even more valuable is that the digitized collection and the RSN Stitch Bank will be connected in many ways. Maybe the best part is that these two monumental resources will be freely available to all needleworkers. In our conversation, we learn how this project got started, the vast amount of information that will be available, and when we’ll start seeing items from the collection. As with all other RSN activities, it pays to have your name on the school’s mailing list so you can keep up to date. To communicate with Isabella about this effort, you can send email to collection at royal-needlework.org.uk. Applause once again to the Royal School for its leadership role in educating needleworkers of all types and at all skill levels. Also, enjoy photos of items from the RSN Collection in the slideshow below.–Beth and Gary

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A selection of items from the RSN Collection

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Fiber Talk with Di Cawdron and Debbie O’Brien, Appletons Wool

Appletons Wool offers 425 colors and that number is growing.
Designs/kits are also part of the Appletons offerings.

Di Cawdron, owner, and Debbie O’Brien, Wool Manager, of Appleton’s Wool are our guests this week. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. EGA is renewing its FiberTalk5 offer of $5 off a new or virtual lecture for EGA members. Appletons Wool was started in 1835 and Di and her now-retired partner Julia, purchased it in 2013. We learn about this historic needlework company and how Di, Debbie, and their team have worked to modernize the operations and continue to provide the quality wool thread that is associated with the Appletons name. They’ve also increased the number of colors–now 425 and growing–and have done so without any interruption in supply during the pandemic. Learn all about how they create the some of the finest wool thread in the needlework world with all-British sources from sheep to needle.–Gary

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Fiber Talk with Allie Dudley

Keep Me Warm, 2019. Wool and cotton. 72 x 102 in.. Woven using a Pine Cone Bloom draft with an embedded tapestry. Featured in Of Threads, On Place at the Asheville Area Arts Council in 2019.

Allie Dudley is our guest this week and the show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Allie is a multifaceted textile artist and a weaver at heart. She practices several needlework techniques, designs needlework, and reproduces antique samplers for the Sassafras Samplers brand, owned by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Allie is also venturing into a new and fascinating phase of her life in which she is going to learn and experience the very basics of textile production, even growing her own flax. There is a lot going on with this talented artist and I’m confident you’ll enjoy the stories.–Gary

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Dasha, 2019. Cotton on perforated paper. 5” x 7”. Long and cross stitch motto modeled on historical Victorian motto samplers.

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