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One Benefit of BTG Membership is receiving a copy of Tapestry Weaver through your letterbox twice-a-year. It is also archived in digital format for members to read past issues.

Read why and how we choose to express our thoughts through a medium that requires the ability to create, develop and sustain an internal, extended dialogue over a considerable period of time. How do we weave the images to share these thoughts with the viewer?

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Conservation of the Tapestries at The Vyne, Hampshire

Lorna C Goldsmith The Vyne is a Tudor house lying in north Hampshire, it was originally the 16th century seat of Henry VIII’s Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sandys. The house is now open to the public through...

The Care of Personal Tapestries and Textile Works

Caroline Booth The creation of a personal tapestry takes considerable time: from the initial ideas, sketches, sampling and decisions made on the combination and range of yarns for the weft, to the warping...

Weaving a Future

Thoma shares with us her concerns of, on the one hand, an ageing population of artists and, on the other hand, the lack of making and creativity in schools today. The same concerns that Lesley Butterworth...

Triumph of Light over Darkness

Light and dark when combined create a multitude of shades, tones, and a myriad of variations. Not always do we see total single light or total single darkness, this is particularly so with light pollution...

BTG Tapestries at Vyne House

Lorna Goldsmith The Vyne, a National Trust house in Hampshire, holds an important historical tapestry collection. Several years ago, the tapestries were damaged while the house was being renovated. They...

An Appreciation of Bobbie Cox

generous and patient in her sharing (1930 - 2018) Libby Sheen, Forest Row, Sussex I was fortunate, along with members of the East Sussex Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, to attend three of Bobbie's...
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