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The Knitting & Crochet Guild of Great Britain - The Guild was established in 1978 to preserve and nurture the skills of knitting and crochet and to conserve what is a major part of our cultural and craft heritage.
Box Tree Cottage Designs - Photographs turned into cross stitch or tapestry (needlepoint) charts.
Astitchdesign - Antonia Valentine, computer graphic design machine embroidery and creative gift embroideries.
Computer Textile Design Group (CTDG) - Association of people using computers in textle design. Resources, membership and magazine.
Kate Taylor - Education consultant specialising in food and textiles. Advice, training courses and resources.
Macclesfield Museums - Restored Paradise Mill and Silk Museum, offering a history of the Cheshire town and silk production.
Margaret Talbot - Textile Tutor - Details courses offered, qualifications, exhibitions and publications. Includes gallery of work.
The Museum of Costume - 17th to 20th century costume, specializing in Old English dress and court fashion.
Susan Monk - Textile artist. Biography and exhibitions plus samples of work including handmade journals.
Through the Surface - The journals of seven textile artists from Britain and Japan.
Young Embroiderers - Embroidery discovery space for children and anyone involved in textile art, craft and education.
Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners, Dyers - For preservation and improvement of craftsmanship in hand weaving, spinning and dyeing. Journal, newsletter, exhibitions and courses.
The Guild of Silk Painters - Organisation with members in 30 countries. Includes articles, contacts, workshop information and examples of work.
ArTex - Fibre Art Wales - Welsh contemporary fibre and textile artists. List of members and the workshops they teach.
Snail Trail Hand Weavers - Handwoven rugs, hangings, cushions and scarves. Includes gallery and information on courses. Cardigan, Pembrokeshire.
Adam, Anna - Woven interpretations of the Welsh landscape with added embroidery. Artist's statement, background, gallery and what's on the loom.
Peter Collingwood - Weaver and author explains macrogauze, ply-splitting and tablet weaving. Includes his publications and poetry.
Handweaving by Riitta Sinkkonen Davies - Workshops specialising in linen weaving, exhibitions, gallery, commissions and items for sale. Pembrokeshire.
Rugs and Wallhangings by Jacqueline  James  - Individually designed hand-woven rugs and wall hangings for commission and exhibition. Gallery, profile and technical information.
The Handweavers Studio and Gallery - London shop offers fibres, yarns, equipment, dyes and books plus weekend courses.
Janet Phillips - Textile designer, hand weaver and weaving tutor. One day workshops near Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, articles and gallery.
Hilltop Spinning and Weaving Centre - Specialist supplier of spinning, weaving, dyeing and felt making supplies, equipment, and tuition. Canterbury, Kent.
Crompton, Michael - Showcases the work of Michael Crompton, tapestry weaver. Includes artist biography, concepts and process, gallery and workshops offered.
Tracy A Franklin - Embroiderer, trained at the Royal School of Needlework, and specialising in most aspects of traditional embroidery. Introduces techniques and provides information on workshops, teaching, talks and events. Commissions accepted.
Pond Needlecraft - Specialising in cross stitch. Providing kits and charts. With a gallery of completed work.
Fashion and Textile Museum - Focuses on British and international fashion, and textile design from 1950 to the present day. Includes details of exhibits, hours, admission rates and membership. Located in London.
Textural Space - Traveling exhibition of contemporary Japanese textile art.
The Guild of Machine Knitters - Non-profit organization which aims to increase the awareness of machine knitting as a craft.
Machine Knitting News - Magazine with subscription information; back issues, and tips.
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Needlework and Textiles When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Needlework and Textiles "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Needlework and Textiles When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. 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(Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Needlework and Textiles Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Needlework and Textiles "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Needlework and Textiles We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Needlework and Textiles For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Needlework and Textiles "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Needlework and Textiles The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. 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Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Needlework and Textiles There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Needlework and Textiles Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Needlework and Textiles Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. 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If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Needlework and Textiles I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Needlework and Textiles
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