Mary McIntosh, visiting City & Guilds tutor from
Sudbury, Suffolk followed her Friday May talk to the Guild entitled “Adventures
in Textiles” with an inspirational workshop on the Saturday with the theme
of “Paper Mania”.
Mary brought a great variety of her work to show on
Friday, and explained, not only her sources of inspiration, but her
working methods. Members were thoroughly impressed with Mary’s work and
agreed that her work was “truly different”.
This set the precedent for the Saturday workshop,
where, after Mary’s instruction, members went to work interpreting Mary’s
designs and instructions with such concentration that for the most part the
workshop was quiet! Throughout the workshop, Mary was attentive, and, so,
at the end of the workshop there were many completed pieces of work to
show!
The workshop consisted of mixing pre-painted
newspaper, layered with three to four layers of lustrous chiffon which was then
stitched and the layers of chiffon removed to varying degrees using heat tools
and additional stitching added as required.
As you can see, there was an overwhelming degree of
success with this workshop and we were all very appreciative of Mary’s
expertise.
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