The @threadsfestswindon Programme of events!!
Please share far and wide.
Still time to enter the Threads of Empowerment Exhibition or apply for a free market stall
Lots of creative fun
Keep watching this space for any updates.
Big thanks to
@artsite.ltd@swindonstitchsocial
Swindon Big Knit
@brunelswindon@swindonculturecollective
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As part of @threadsfestswindon we are having a Textile Makers Market.
If you are an artist or maker who creates textile based work OR a textiles group that's would like a FREE STALL at our festival please send us a message.
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Are you an artist or maker who has an interest in textiles?
Are you a textiles group?
Do you fancy working on something new this year
Inspired by our theme 'Threads of Empowermentl?
If the answer is yes then please see details of our open call for textiles art.
Your work can be part of @threadsfestswindon and exhibited alongside the brilliant @iamwomanproject22 by @the_subversive_stitcher
You can DM with any questions but please make your submissions to the email in the post.
We can't wait to see what you come up with!!!
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A brilliant piece of Empowering textiles created by a young adult at a Swindon group called The Friendship Circle.
The Friendship Circle enriches the lives of adults with learning/physical disabilities and mental health challenges through integrated social and recreational experiences.
This piece with form part of a larger piece to celebrate and empower the Friendship Circle visitors.
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#hands
#thefreindshipcircle
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A WIP of a beautiful piece by @sonialeggett
who is part of the @artsite.ltd Threads textiles group,
This piece has been dyed using natural dyes embroidered and appliqued into
Please get in touch if you would like to be part of the exhibition!!
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#threadsofempowerment
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#stitch
#workingtogether
A WIP of a beautiful piece by @deirdrelevy who is part of the @artsite.ltd Threads textiles group,
Please get in touch if you would like to be part of the exhibition!!
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#stitch
#workingtogether
A great night of planning for @threadsfestswindon
With @artsite.ltd and @swindonstitchsocial
Lots of ideas about events and workshops that will be happening across the festival!
Workshops -
Mini messages
Block Printing
Visible mending
Textiles market
Textiles Swap
Inspiration station
Mapping activity celebrating all local textiles groups
Launch night
Talks
And more.
Watch this space for the full programme of events.
There is still time to enter the open call, as an individual or as a group.
Your piece(s) will need to be made and dropped of on the 2nd July!
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Some wonderful.WIP from @susanavrilart using recycled materials.
This will be part of our Threads of Empowerment exhibition @threadsfestswindon
There is still plenty of time to apply to be part of the festival.
Just Send a DM or email [email protected]
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For @threadsfestswindon 2026 we are very lucky to have @iamwomanproject22 be part of it and along side this wonderful artwork we have @the_subversive_stitcher who is going to be running a workshop and talk as part of the festival.
Come and join us to create a textiles piece based around Empowerment! The talk/workshop will be on Thursday July 16th 5.30-8.30pm
Watch this space for links to get tickets.
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#community
#textilesworkshop
#textileartist
#thesubversivestitcher
We are very excited @threadsfestswindon to be having an original banner or 2 created by the amazing women of Greenham Common.
(This image is of a banner by Derbyshire Women for Peace banner created in the 1980s}
We were so lucky to meet @bunny_morethan at a screening of Gentle Angry Women @sofascreenings
and chatted to her about her book and asked if any of the Greenham banners still existed.
Rebecca and Vanessa from @scarylittlegirls
Have been so kind in to letting us display the banners and use the archive photos in our exhibition 'Threads of Empowerment '
'....They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. They stayed there for almost twenty years, in what would become the largest, most effective women-led protest since the Suffragette campaign- and they would radicalise a generation'.
Taken from a Out of the Darkness, Greenham Voices 1981-2000 by Kate Kerrow and Rebecca Morgan.
We are hoping there will be a talk about the book Out of the Darkness , The Greenham Voices 1981-2000 so watch this space.
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#greenhamcommon
#banners
#protest
#women-led
A WIP of a beautiful piece by @valerie.gibbons who is part of the @artsite.ltd Threads textiles group,
The empowering effects that nature has on our wellbeing and allowing artwork to grow organically.
This piece has been dyed using rust then embroidered and appliqued into and includes hand crafted dandelions at different stages of their growth.
Please get in touch if you would like to be part of the exhibition!!
#textilesfestival
#threadsofempowerment
#artistcommunity
#stitch
#workingtogether
