Meet the designer

A source of companionship and productivity for centuries, Ashleigh-ellan Kavanagh takes a look at the quiet resistance of bees, cooperatives and guilds Even before factories and machines, before the n

“As is so often the case with quilt making, this block has a backstory. I was teaching a class on the Nova Scotia quilt (Today’s Quilter Issue 91), one of my first larger projects that used rolled bac

DESIGNER JENNIE Atkinson has had a distinguished career, and has published a collection of pattern books as well as producing numerous knitwear designs for Rowan Yarns and The Knitter. She is known fo

Celebrating the work of the quilt-makers from the remote hamlet of Gee’s Bend in Alabama, the exciting exhibition Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend – co-organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Several decades on from her primary school days, hand weaver and textile designer Llio James still remembers one particular lesson. She grew up in the small village of Talybont, close to Aberystwyth,

Bethany Hughes grew up in a household where making art was woven into everyday life. “My artist mother taught me to draw, paint, embroider and much more,” she recalls, describing a childhood where cre