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"No other material conceivable could have done it just like this" - Rose Little - 20 June 2016

The speaker for the meeting on 20 June was ​Rose Little, one of our members.  Her talk was intriguingly entitled ‘No other material conceivable could have done it just like this’, a quotation from William Morris’ public lecture of 1881, ‘Some Hints on Pattern-Designing’.
 
Rose began her career in the 1970s as a language teacher, teaching English at Bonn University, then German at what became the University of Limerick, Ireland. She started quilting after attending evening classes in a Limerick café held by Alison Erridge, one of the three founder members of the 62 Group, and was strongly influenced by her design-based approach.  This was followed by a City and Guilds course in embroidery with Opus (Julia and Alex Caprara).  In 2004 she fulfilled a longstanding ambition to go to art school, doing a Postgraduate Diploma in Textiles followed by an MFA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths College, London.
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Rose’s inspiration comes from the flora and landscape of County Clare, South Asian textile tradition, especially kantha and block-printing, and, perhaps most of all, the inherent evocative qualities of textiles. She experiments with surface design techniques such as dyeing, bleaching and printing but also draws on traditional and historical embroidery and quilting techniques. She likes to mix these disparate things together and to highlight and extend the long history of cross-cultural influences in textiles. 

Rose's beautiful work can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/rosebay01.  In the meantime some samples are shown below:​
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