British Textile TV series now online
Jamie and Holly in the Stitch Shed
Talking Threads is a ten-part series about British textiles featuring Jamie Malden and Holly Pulsford of Colouricious. Textiles – great! British textiles – oh, the joys of being an Anglophile. You can watch the show online on Country Channel.tv.
(Some hints to access the series on Country Channel.tv: You must accept cookies — which I do and then turn my regular setting in Preferences for internet security back on later — and you may have to download a different media player than you are currently using. Flash didn’t work for me, but SilverLight did.)
The first two shows are available and feature Jill Kennedy (silk painting) and Gilda Baron (creating multi-layered texiles with paint and stitch). The first half of each half-hour show is a personal interview and the second half is a very useful demonstration of a technique.
And check out their Stitch Shed. Who wouldn’t want one of those in their backyard?
But don’t stop there, search for textiles and the Inspiration series comes up. This is a series of interviews with five very well-known British textile artists. Three of the wonderfully personal talks with textile artists are now available: the late Julia Caprara (link is to her book with an interview link on the side), Jan Beaney and Michael Brennand-Wood. I especially enjoyed learning about the genesis of Brennand-Wood’s mixed-media artwork that takes stitching into the third dimension.
I have to say that once I started looking at the content of Country Channel.tc – Beth Chattos garden, fungi, native breed horses – I realized that I had to set limits or I would be watching for WAY too long.
