Stitch Together from the Jo Cox Foundation and More in Common
The Great Get Together is inspired by Jo Cox, who was killed on the 16th of June 2016. In her first speech in Parliament, Jo said, ”We have more in
May 28, 2021
Worldwide contributions received for train station yarn bomb!
Over 15,000 squares have been knitted by people all over the world to yarn bomb Huddersfield Train Station for the Big Rainbow Knit. The huge, yarn bomb installation will cover
May 25, 2021
Sculpting a Continent – Andrew Warburton
Andrew Warburton is using textiles to draw attention to the increase of colossal icebergs, some the size of New York, breaking off from Antarctica in these ‘calving events’ as a
May 25, 2021
Commission Announcement – HUG
We are delighted to announce our ‘Woven Into Place’ commission – ‘HUG’, by artists Adrian Riley and Annabel McCourt of Electric Angel Using words from local residents, and fabric off-cuts
May 17, 2021
Hillstone Fiber Arts receive funding to develop new work for WOVEN
Hillstone Fiber Arts is a small constituted group of 13 artists based in Huddersfield. The group is very active and in 2019 for the WOVEN festival developed an empty shop
May 11, 2021
Rowan Designer Square Competition
Rowan Yarns are kindly supporting the Big Rainbow Knit. Three Rowan designers – Lisa Richardson, Martin Storey and Chloe Thurlow – have created a set of square patterns for our
May 11, 2021
Half Term Creative Workshops
Come and create amazing textile pieces to adorn the sculptures created by the young artists of The Children’s Art School. The art works created will be part of the Further
April 29, 2021
Get involved with WOVEN Together community quilt project
Woven Together is a community quilt project run by textile artist Dionne Swift Anyone who lives or works in Kirklees can get involved and the concept behind the project is
April 27, 2021
Calling all knitters for the Batley T’Rainbow
We are launching an appeal for knitters to get involved with an exciting, new project to yarn bomb Batley Train Station. We are working in partnership with the Friends of
April 20, 2021
INTERWOVEN – we need your textile industry images
We’re appealing to the general public to share images of their working life in local textile mills for an exciting new project called INTERWOVEN. Building on the Woven into Song
March 25, 2021
