About this podcast
This podcast is for craft and textile enthusiasts all around the world. We're constantly adding great interviews with textile artists, tutors and retailers plus a little advice on our own distance study courses in craft and much more. The School of Stitched Textiles is the largest UK provider of City & Guilds Accredited Textile based distance learning courses. You can find out site at https://www.sofst.org/. We also host the Stitch Directory, which showcases independent craft retailers and suppliers from around the world https://www.sofst.org/stitch-directory/.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 50 episodes
- Artist Interview - Sayali Goyal · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 10Sayali Goyal is a visual artist and ethnographer. She creates abstract expressions on textiles and paper based on her research into material cultures. Her two bodies of work…
- Artist Interview - Diana Springall MBE · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 9Diana Springall, who has just been awarded an MBE for services to arts and crafts, is one of Britain's most respected textile artists, teachers and champions of embroidery and I…
- Artist Interview - Mary Ann Gebhardt · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 8Whether you're new to mindfulness or have an established practice, you'll find plenty to reflect on as we explore the fascinating relationship between textile arts, creativity…
- Artist Interview - Jan Beaney · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 7Jan trained as a painter and since the 1960’s has been a practicing textile artist. As an Honorary Member of the 62 group of Textile artist, a Fellow of the Society of Designer…
- Artist Interview - Victoria Merness · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 6Victoria is a qualified artist and educator, holding an MA in Contemporary Fine Art and a Masters-level PGCE in Art and Creative Practice. Since 2021, she has been teaching…
- Artist Interview - Murron Fraser · 1 h 3 min · Season 5 Episode 5Murron delves into the connection between nature, folklore and storytelling. Inspired by the hidden depths of the natural world and the narratives with it, she creates intuitive…
- Artist Interview - Sarah Simi Nudinits · 1 h 2 min · Season 5 Episode 4Sarah was taught how to knit by her mum when she was eight and was then forever knitting jumpers, cuddly Clangers and even an outfit for her guinea pig that it sensibly refused…
- Student Interview - Holly Jackson · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 3Today Gail is joined by Holly Jackson, a mixed media textile artist based on a tiny island in the Chesapeake Bay, living and working from a fisherman’s cottage dating back to…
- Artist Interview - Wen Redmond · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 2“Making my art allows me to tap into levels of perception, becoming more aware, more conscious, & more grateful. I’ve loved photography my entire life. This brings a tender…
- Artist Interview - Cassandra Dias · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 1Cassandra was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1985, and has been creating art since she was old enough to pick up a crayon and put it to paper. She started her self-taught…
- Artist Interview - Kandy G Lopez · 1 h 3 min · Season 4 Episode 10Kandy G Lopez was born in 1985 in New Jersey, USA and is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portraiture…
- Artist Interview - Carolyn Forster · 1 h 11 min · Season 4 Episode 9Carolyn Forster is a quilt designer, teacher and author from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Since self-publishing her first book, “Quilting On the Go” in 2007 Carolyn has gone on to…
- Artist Interview - Robert Ossant and Jessica Pile · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 8Robert Ossant Author and fashion historian Robert Ossant hails from Lancashire and moved to London to work in newspapers, getting his big break at the Daily Mirror. Feeling…
- Textile Artist - Hannah Lamb · 1 h 7 min · Season 4 Episode 7Fascinated by textiles and the stories they can tell, Hannah Lamb’s practice is a personal dialogue with materials. From her studio in Bingley, West Yorkshire she experiments…
- Artist Interview - Emily Jo Gibbs · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 6Emily Jo Gibbs has established an international reputation for her delicate silk organza appliqué. In her current practice Emily creates hand-stitched Portraits and Still Lifes…
- Artist Interview - Fleur Woods · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 5Fleur Woods is a Contemporary Fibre Artist, Author, Teacher and Mentor based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by nature and drawn to fibres and textiles Fleur has developed her…
- Textile Talk with Emma Rosa · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 4With a keen observation of nature, Emma Rosa uses multi-disciplinary techniques and mixed media to create botanical studies from fabric and thread. Marrying a foundation in fine…
- Artist Interview - Ellie Hipkin · 60 min · Season 4 Episode 3Ellie is a textile artist working from her garden studio in Brighton. Surrounded by the South Downs, Sussex coastline and wild plants discovered on walks, she draws inspiration…
- Artist Interview - Kelley Aldridge · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 2Kelley graduated from the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship in 2005 after many years in Management Development Training. She went on to establish the very successful…
- Artist Interview - Amanda Cobbett · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 1Amanda Cobbett is an award-winning textile artist with over 25 years’ experience. Inspired by nature in all its forms, Amanda’s 3-dimensional, papier-mâché and free…
