Owen Kelly: A Creative Storyteller With Distinctive Hand Stitched Style
In this episode, host Susan Weeks sits down with Owen Kelly , a fifth-generation stitcher with over 50 years of experience. Working from his...
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Sally McCollin: Inspiring Creativity Through Textiles, Teaching and Online Embroidery Courses
In this Stitchery Stories episode, host Susan Weeks chats with Sally McCollin, a textile artist, designer, and educator with a fascinating c...
Elizabeth Ashdown: Passementerie Artist Transforming An Endangered Craft
Elizabeth Ashdown is one of only 4 hand Passementerie artists working in the UK today. She combines traditional and endangered craft skills...
Ailish Henderson: Bringing Fine Art Narrative Textiles To Life
Ailish Henderson is a fine art textile artist , particularly known for her fine art stitched collage works, which focus on capturing a fleet...
Caroline Hyde-Brown : Weaving Plant Material Into Textile Art
Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career. Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material...
Elnaz Yazdani : Contemporary Textile Art With Unusual Materials
Elnaz Yazdani creates vibrant contemporary textile art using rather unusual materials. Look closely for nails, springs, tubes, and all sorts...
Jack Roberts: Freehand Machine Embroidery Fine Artist
Dr. Jack Roberts, also known as JPR Stitch , is a fine artist specializing in freehand machine embroidery, creating stunning abstract shapes...
Alison Holt: Freehand Machine Embroidery Landscapes
Alison Holt is a contemporary textile artist, teacher and author who combines silk painting and freehand machine embroidery to create beauti...
Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business
Hannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art. In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family ups...
Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey
Textile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career. Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using mode...
Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel
Textile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today! She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her...
Emma Horan: Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit Designer
Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stit...
Lottie Cockell : Growing Her Creative Business From Hand Embroidery
Lottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over...
Prism Textiles Group: behind the scenes of their annual textile art exhibition
Prism Textile Group members Hayley Mills-Styles and Maria Walker share behind-the-scenes challenges of helping to organise an annual textile...
Sarah Gwyer : Contemporary Embroidery Beaded Pop Art
Today I explore hand embroidered and beaded pop art with contemporary pop art textile artist Sarah Gwyer. We talk about her magpie-like 'obs...
Vanessa Marr: Domestic Dusters: Embroidery On Women And Domesticity
Back in 2014, textile artist, academic & designer Vanessa Marr posed the question: Women & Domesticity - What's Your Perspective? And invite...
Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project
Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating...
Merrilyn Heazlewood : Creative Counted Canvaswork Embroidery
Embroidery artist Merrilyn Heazlewood shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She takes us on a jo...
Stitchery Stories Listeners Creative Joy Highlights 2022
A cheerful & inspiring episode as global listeners of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast share their stories of creative joy from 2022, a...
Elizabeth Griffiths : Using hand embroidery for Portrait Artist Of The Year competition
Elizabeth Griffiths is a mixed media artist using hand embroidery, lino print-making, inks and watercolours to explore a range of themes. Sh...