Today I received a wonderful letter from Susan North, V&A Curator of Fashion before 1800, confirming my coif has been assigned the accession number T.93-2024.
I’m beyond happy to know that the coif is now formally part of a Permanent Collection the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
“All of our makers are designers and craftsmen and are selected for their strong and innovative design sense with the skills, craftsmanship and sensitivity to materials to make the objects they design. As the oldest multi-disciplinary Society in the UK we are proud to have as members some of the finest, most exciting and respected designer makers of today and since our founding in 1887.”
SDC – Profile
“Being a member of the Society gives our members professional recognition at all stages of their careers and provides a valuable network amongst its 350 members and through its many links with other creative organisations. We have three levels of membership that recognise the different stages our members have reached in their design practice, these are Licentiate (LSDC), Member (MSDC), Fellow (FSDC).” ~ SDC.
This is the next step in my creative journey and I’m looking forward to working within this well established society of designers and makers.
I’m also a member of the prestigious group Prism Textiles.
Ailish Henderson is an exciting young textile artist whose work is fun, quirky, tells interesting stories and uses a diverse range of media, though always grounded in cloth. In her Narrative Textiles book, she explains her working methods and how readers can harness them in their own work to create unique, deeply personal textile art pieces. She encourages readers to draw on your own personal memorabilia to create work that is meaningful – the intention is to capture a moment in time, a memory to treasure, a look on a face, a glance of love from a pet.
Throughout the book the author encourages working with freedom, instinct and honesty, bringing in a wealth of different techniques to create authentic stories in cloth, and most importantly, enjoy yourself along the way.
Along with work from the author, the book also showcases work from textile artists such as Aran Illingworth, Jenni Dutton, Woo Jin Joo and Jordan Cunliffe.
Ailish Henderson is an artist, researcher and teacher who primarily works in textiles. Ailish exhibits widely, including at the Knitting and Stitching Show, and provides lectures and masterclasses to various organizations including the Embroiderers’ Guild and the WI. She has had three solo UK exhibitions to date, and has also exhibited key works in Rome. She is the former editor-in-chief for the Mr X Stitch website and her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Embroidery, Selvedge and Daphne’s Diary.
Other Book Reviews
A review of Soulful Stitch by Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, is available here. The review is by author Deena Beverley and features many of the artworks featured in the publication.