Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career. Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. C

Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 16m

Hannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art. In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcas

Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey

Sep 15th, 2023 1h 7m

Textile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career. Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using modern materials and mixed media, there are plenty of exciting 'firsts' to celebrate with Holly! We join Hol

Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel

Aug 3rd, 2023 59m 54s

Textile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today! She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her creative business to focus on teaching people around the world through her online courses and her unique

Emma Horan: Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit Designer

May 24th, 2023 41m 24s

Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stitch hand embroidery kits of the beautiful Cornish coast. For the last 10 years, Emma has grown her cross

Lottie Cockell : Growing Her Creative Business From Hand Embroidery

Apr 21st, 2023 1h 3m

Lottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over the last 5 years. With a love of 'grid-based' hand embroidery, Lottie focuses on cross-stitch, blackwor

Prism Textiles Group: behind the scenes of their annual textile art exhibition

Apr 7th, 2023 59m 9s

Prism Textile Group members Hayley Mills-Styles and Maria Walker share behind-the-scenes challenges of helping to organise an annual textile art exhibition which features work from the groups' international members. Hayley & Maria explain the b

Sarah Gwyer : Contemporary Embroidery Beaded Pop Art

Mar 15th, 2023 55m 4s

Today I explore hand embroidered and beaded pop art with contemporary pop art textile artist Sarah Gwyer. We talk about her magpie-like 'obsession' with colourful beads and charms and the artistic path to creating beaded portraits. But beneath

Vanessa Marr: Domestic Dusters: Embroidery On Women And Domesticity

Feb 24th, 2023 1h

Back in 2014, textile artist, academic & designer Vanessa Marr posed the question: Women & Domesticity - What's Your Perspective? And invited those thoughts to be embroidered upon a yellow duster, in red thread. Little did she realise what she

Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project

Feb 9th, 2023 50m 52s

Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress. It's an amazing project which has enabled unheard women, many in poverty, vulner

Merrilyn Heazlewood : Creative Counted Canvaswork Embroidery

Jan 20th, 2023 48m 15s

Embroidery artist Merrilyn Heazlewood shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She takes us on a journey through her interesting and busy lifelong creative business career based around counted canvas wor

Stitchery Stories Listeners Creative Joy Highlights 2022

Dec 29th, 2022 43m 37s

A cheerful & inspiring episode as global listeners of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast share their stories of creative joy from 2022, and shoutout those 'joy bringers' who helped them in some way to achieve that joy. Hello & Welcome to my

Elizabeth Griffiths : Using hand embroidery for Portrait Artist Of The Year competition

Dec 9th, 2022 39m 8s

Elizabeth Griffiths is a mixed media artist using hand embroidery, lino print-making, inks and watercolours to explore a range of themes. She shares the uplifting experience (and challenge!) of using hand embroidery as a competitor in Sky TV Po

Stacey Jones : Modern Abstract Hand Embroidery

Nov 22nd, 2022 42m 46s

Stacey Jones creates colourful, modern, abstract hand embroidery art. Her work powerfully reflects her thoughts & emotions through her life experiences. Stacey shares her story of how her life with her husband has strongly informed her embroide

Floriane Schmitt : Creative Fabric Manipulation Ideas

Nov 2nd, 2022 36m 50s

Floriane Schmitt loves to experiment with creative fabric manipulation ideas. Under her brand name of FloHomeDesign she creates accessories and home decor items from smocked neoprene and is writing a fabric manipulation book, due out end 2023.

Cath Janes : Hand Embroidered Human Anatomy

Oct 19th, 2022 1h 2m

Cath Janes is an award-winning human anatomical embroidery artist. Under her brand name of Kraken Kreations she combines anatomically correct illustrations with colourful hand embroidery which all have a story to tell. Cath shares her honest an

Susan Hensel : Communicating Ideas Through Digital Machine Embroidery

Oct 5th, 2022 56m 55s

Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist with a long-established career. She combines mixed media with digital machine embroidery to create beautiful sculptural forms flooded with colour. Alongside runs her gallery & curatative experience, gi

Jennie-maree Tempest : Beautiful Botanical Sculptures

Oct 31st, 2021 39m 41s

Jennie-maree Tempest is a textile artist living on the Bass Coast of Australia. After many years creating art quilts and portraits, she has decided to challenge her textile art skills and creativity by creating textile art botanical sculptures.

Nikki Parmenter: Exuberant mixed-media textile artist

Sep 29th, 2021 48m 43s

Today on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Nikki Parmenter shares her life in fabric & thread & a wide range of interesting materials too! She chats with Susan Weeks about the wide range of inspirations and materials that she uses to c

Tanya Bentham : What is Opus Anglicanum embroidery?

Jun 16th, 2021 53m 11s

Tanya Bentham is an expert in the style of hand embroidery known as 'Opus Anglicanum'. It is a style of embroidery that was prevalent in the 13th & 14th centuries in England. Very specific stitches are used in a specific way with specific mater

Vendulka Battais: An inspiring textile artist moving with the times

May 26th, 2021 50m 9s

Vendulka Battais is a textile artist, quilter, embroiderer and designer who started her creative journey making clothes with her mum in the Czech Republic. She learnt simple patchwork when she moved to the UK and was looking for a new hobby! Ve

Lorraine Turner: textile art supporting endangered animals

Apr 21st, 2021 48m 15s

Lorraine Turner is a textile artist who gives support for endangered animals through her vibrant textile art. Lorraine has been a practicing artist for many years as a graphic designer, working on wide variety of commercial projects but her adv

Catriona Baird : The Story Of The Paisley Pattern and Paisley Shawls

Apr 11th, 2021 45m 39s

Catriona Baird is Textiles Curator at Paisley Museum, in Scotland, which celebrates it's 150th anniversary on 11th April 2021. Catriona shares the story of the Paisley pattern - that swirly floral stylised teardrop motif that pops up in so many

Gail Cowley: The School Of Stitched Textiles

Mar 24th, 2021 50m 28s

Dr Gail Cowley is the founder and director of The School Of Stitched Textiles. Through the school, Gail offers a range of courses from beginner through to advanced practitioner, in a range of textile related subjects. As we hit the one year ann

Ruth Norbury: Capturing urban decay with textile art

Mar 10th, 2021 41m 29s

Ruth Norbury is a textile artist who specialises in creating urban decay art. But Ruth is full of contrasts and surprises, and today we dig into her story. She is almost entirely self taught, and loves to experiment to create the look and feel