Dear Guild SecretaryAt the recent Association AGM our new President Jennie Parry spoke about her concerns that students at textile and fashion colleges are keen to learn about our craft skills but are often not sure how to go about it. She is hoping to go to many of the college degree shows and make …
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Spring Newsletter from the Northern Rep
Dear Guild Secretaries and Members At the AGM on 6th April, both the outgoing and incoming Presidents of the Association talked of their concern at the lack of basic knowledge being passed on to students on textile-related courses. Since the meeting, the new President, Jennie Parry, has already started the process to remedy this situation. With the …
Letter from the Rep for Wales
Hello to you all,Hope you are all well, I have just returned from a visit to the Abergele Friendship Day in North Wales, a nice friendly group with visitors from Cheshire, Gwynedd and Shropshire, if I have missed out a Guild, sorry! The stalls inspired and the cake was delicious! I am assuming that there …
Message from the Scotland and Northern Ireland Rep
The Annual General Meeting of the Association was at the end of last week in London and I managed to make contact with 3 other Scottish Members, I think that was all of us that were there.Next, in August, it is Summer School 2019 at Askham Bryan College near York. This particular Summer School has …
Contact from Wales
Hello after the AGM in London,It was good to meet some members of Guilds yesterday and nice to have company on the train going home!Matters were discussed, choices made and votes counted, all the information will come via Soo so I won’t duplicate it. In the meeting I had an email asking if there was …