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Artist Interview - Carolyn Forster
Dec 03, 2025 1h 11m

Artist Interview - Carolyn Forster

Carolyn 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 write many more patch...

Artist Interview - Robert Ossant and Jessica Pile
Nov 12, 2025 1h 1m

Artist Interview - Robert Ossant and Jessica Pile

Robert 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 disillusioned with tablo...

Textile Artist - Hannah Lamb
Oct 15, 2025 1h 7m

Textile Artist - Hannah Lamb

Fascinated 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 with layers of imagery...

Artist Interview - Emily Jo Gibbs
Sep 24, 2025 1h 2m

Artist Interview - Emily Jo Gibbs

Emily 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 with ...

Artist Interview - Fleur Woods
Aug 20, 2025 1h 5m

Artist Interview - Fleur Woods

Fleur 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 'stitched pain...

Textile Talk with Emma Rosa
Jul 30, 2025 1h 2m

Textile Talk with Emma Rosa

With 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 art and a past ...

Artist Interview - Ellie Hipkin
Jul 09, 2025 59 min

Artist Interview - Ellie Hipkin

Ellie 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 from colours, contou...

Artist Interview - Kelley Aldridge
Jun 18, 2025 1h 6m

Artist Interview - Kelley Aldridge

Kelley graduated from the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship in 2005 after many years in Management Developmen...

Artist Interview - Amanda Cobbett
May 21, 2025 1h 8m

Artist Interview - Amanda Cobbett

Amanda 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 machine-embroidered sc...

Artist Interview - Karen L Miller (Aurifil Threads)
Apr 23, 2025 1h 8m

Artist Interview - Karen L Miller (Aurifil Threads)

Karen L. Miller, owner of Redbird Quilt Co., is Master Educator for Aurifil USA, an Aurifilosopher, author, and passionate advocate for free motion quilting. Her quilting journey began in 2007 when...

Artist Interview - Gail Harker
Apr 09, 2025 1h 2m

Artist Interview - Gail Harker

Gail is a Canadian who resided for 20 years in Britain, until returning t the US in 1995. She moved to Britain in 1976 with her American husband and family. She studied art in Canada, England and S...

Master Pratitioner Course - Lorrraine Benjamin
Mar 26, 2025 58 min

Master Pratitioner Course - Lorrraine Benjamin

Lorraine has been creating with fiber since she was a young girl. As a child she would while away the hours sewing, crocheting, and working with crewelwork. She learned to sew garments at...

Artist Interview - Lucy Martin
Mar 19, 2025 1h 3m

Artist Interview - Lucy Martin

Lucy Martin from Hand and Lock grew up in the Peak District, where her love for stitching began as she helped her mother make wedding dresses from age three. Her talent led her to work with renowne...

Master Practitioner Course Interview - Annegret Fauser
Feb 26, 2025 1h 7m

Master Practitioner Course Interview - Annegret Fauser

Annegret is a German American fiber artist who divides her time between Chapel Hill, a university town, and Kill Devil Hills, a town on the North Atlantic coast. Born in Germany and now residing in...

Artist Interview - Sophie Standing
Feb 19, 2025 1h 8m

Artist Interview - Sophie Standing

Sophie is a British wildlife artist who has lived in Africa for 22 years. She now lives in Dorset, England. She is moving to Costa Rica in the new year, where a whole new array of wildlife inspirat...

Artist Interview - Althea Crome
Jan 29, 2025 59 min

Artist Interview - Althea Crome

Althea’s Crome is an Indiana based fiber artist who has chosen a very niche art form to express her artistic ideas and challenge her own skills as a technician. Crome is a micro-knitter and has bee...

Artist Interview - Anne Kelly
Jan 08, 2025 1h 0m

Artist Interview - Anne Kelly

UK based textile artist Anne Kelly is an award-winning artist, author and tutor. Her multi-layered and densely stitched textiles have been described as ‘small worlds’. Trained in Canada and at Gold...

Artist Interview - Holly Guertin
Dec 11, 2024 1h 0m

Artist Interview - Holly Guertin

Holly Guertin is a contemporary fiber artist and textile designer in the Philadelphia, PA area. In her work, she explores the interconnectedness of the human person and invites her viewers to look ...

Artist Interview - Alison Whateley
Nov 20, 2024 57 min

Artist Interview - Alison Whateley

Alison is a self-taught artist who works primarily with textiles, often incorporating mixed media elements into her work to enhance their compositions. She began her journey into textile art in her...

Artist Interview - Jude Kingshott
Nov 01, 2024 1h 4m

Artist Interview - Jude Kingshott

Jude is a practising mixed media artist and tutor. She currently teaches small groups of 1 or 2 from her own studio, and also larger groups in both the UK and across Europe. She has also ...