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Carey Company is a family business that specialises in Braiding. We endeavour to offer a fast and efficient service with quality products and more than happy to help with any queries you may have about braiding and related subjects.

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I am a textile artist living and working in the North Bedfordshire countryside. I started making quilts in 1988, after being captivated by Mennonite quilts in Canada. Traditional techniques gave me ideas for experimentation and this led to me devising my own methods to enable me to express ideas, concerns and emotions in my own particular way.Artists such as Paul Klee have had a great influence on my work, as have the Roman mosaicists in Morocco, Tunisia, Italy and here in England. I put quilts together in ways similar to their floors, building images then joining them to make a whole statement.Inspiration comes also from the English countryside - its colours, moods, textures, history, myths and folklore. All are combined to enable me to create works that reflect my love of the natural world. My love of cats is reflected in my sometimes zany cat patterns.I have exhibited quilts at many national shows and have won several major awards, including two Championships at national level. My quilts have been chosen to represent the British Isles in exhibitions in Canada and America. I have held one solo exhibition to date, but I prefer making quilts to exhibiting them!I teach quiltmaking on a variety of levels for the sheer joy of sharing the colours, textures and patterns. I enjoy encouraging and inspiring my students to take up this ancient craft and turn it into the art of quilting. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see the look on a student's face when she sees that big ribbon attached to her quilt!In short, I am passionate about my quilting and my teaching.

designing, manufacturing and selling of patchwork patterns for quilts, wallhangings bags,gifts,tablerunners via our on line store and at quilt shows around the country

Directory of Patchwork and Quilting groups, suppliers and shops. Fabrics, notion threads, patterns and kits, events,craft skills, quilting

Whether a beginner or a more experienced textile artist, we can supply a fantastic range of products to use in your work. Whatever your interest - silk painting, embroidery, quilting, collage, mixed media, altered art, jewellery making, rubber stamping or card making, we are bound to have products to inspire you.The following pages show a small selection of our product range which can be ordered securely (see our GeoTrust certificate below) online. The wide range of products available from Rainbow Silks includes paints, dyes, silks, velvets, frames, pins, nibs, brushes, palettes, crayons, transfer paints, marbling paints, dissolvable fabrics, jewellery mounts and lots more! Please download our full catalogue of products. You can order all the products in the catalogue using the Quick Order form and order items from the website using the Shopping Basket.Lots of new products will be added to the website during the next few months. In the meantime, many are mentioned in the News page on the website, along with always-changing Special Offers.

The Textile Directory is a comprehensive resource for anyone searching for people, places or products related to textiles in art, craft, fashion and interiors. It is produced in book form as well as being available as a fully searchable online version right here on the web.Looking for the best in textile design? Take a look at the Textile People section or our Textile Showcase Windows with links to the websites of dozens of textile artists, designers and makers. Or check out the Shopping for Textiles section where you will find specialist antique dealers and ethnic textile importers.If you are a textile professional, hobbyist or student yourself, there is plenty for you here too. The Textile Directory is jam-packed full of easily accessible resources: museums and galleries to inspire you or to show your work in; colleges or individual tutors to learn textile techniques and skills from; and of course suppliers of all kinds of textile related products from art materials through to sewing machines.

Creative Exhibitions present the leading textile exhibitions in the UK and Ireland. The Knitting and Stitching Show takes place in London, Harrogate (north of England) and Dublin Ireland. Stitch, Paper, Craft takes place in Olympia in March, and Festival of Quilts, which was launched in 2003 takes place at the NEC Birmingham England.Creative Exhibitions is a small company, run by the Directors Andrew Salmon and Jan King. Both Andrew and Jan had a long career working with major exhibition companies in the UK such as Reed and Emap plc before setting up their own company in 1991. Creative Exhibitions specialises exclusively in organising textile events for the public. Along with their staff of four other committed individuals, Creative stages the five textile events mentioned above.In total these five events attract an audience of nearly 150,000 visitors per year from over 30 countries.Why are the Shows organised by Creative Exhibitions regarded as the pre-eminent textile events in the UK and Ireland?An unrivalled selection of companies, selling everything the textile enthusiast needs, from sewing machines all through the spectrum to one off hand dyed silk threads. An educational programme offering in excess of 100 different classes at each event. Superb gallery exhibitions from leading textile artists and textile groups from around the world. And, in the case of The Festival of Quilts, over 1,000 competition quilts on display.This unique blend is what makes the Shows organised by Creative Exhibitions Ltd so attractive to such a large audience.In the past some of the illustrious textile artists and textile groups that have exhibited with gallery exhibitions include Michael Brennand-Wood, Alice Kettle, Audrey Walker, Rozanne Hawksley, Pauline Burbidge and The 62 Group to name but a few.Work has been loaned from both individual private collectors as well as well known galleries and museums such as The Victoria and Albert Museum, Bankfield