Another interesting speaker this month – Alice Colson, a student of Manchester Metropolitan University, was chosen as a Guild Scholar in 2012 and showed us some samples of her work and a slide show relating to the development of those pieces.
She had based her work on a set of ‘Kay’s Practical Embroidery’ metal templates which were originally used in the 1930s to create raised fluffy textured designs, where you stitched over the template in 3,4 or more layers and then cut away to show the colours underneath.
(I vaguely remember using one of these with my mother who always liked to try new ideas – I seem to remember we made a ‘fluffy cushion’!)
Alice had taken this idea and developed it into a very modern technique – one of which uses a 12 needle embroidery machine – very different and rather mind boggling.
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