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Workshop general
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Workshop program
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Application
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Equipment
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| Ten Takadai with bobbins are available for rental at 1000 yen per day. |
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A Student to bring list
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Essential:
Please prepare a 1.5metre warp for 38 bobbins in one very pale colour or cream or
white. This needs to have at least 12 - 24 ends of fine yarn per bobbin. (Use the
larger number of ends if your yarn is very fine.)
Suggested materials: 40s machine embroidery rayon or Biron, or 2/16s mercerised cotton,
or 100/2 spun silk.
Also bring swing labels, pencil, rubber. |
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Author's book 2005
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Jennie Parry
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Students
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Beverly Bills
Trish Goodfield
Mona Killingworth
Shigei Mizobuchi
Kayo Ozaki
Molly Pere
Debbie Richardson
Kazumi Sakamoto
Haruno Tanaka
Anne Whitehead
(10 of 10) |
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| Jennie Parry |
Leicester, UK
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Free-lance teacher of embroidery & braidmaking.
Founder member of The Braid Society of which she was President from 1996 - 2001.
Began to make kumihimo in 1985 with Catherine Martin, then Rodrick Owen and later
with Makiko Tada, and from the early 1990s, has included all 5 pieces of Kumihimo
equipment. Her particular passion is for takadai.
Exhibitions:
1991: Sunrise in the West. UK
1992: Third International Exhibition of Peruvian & Japanese Braiding. Japan
1995: Samurai Undressed. UK
2001: Festival of Japanese Culture. UK
2003: Braids and Beyond. UK
2004: Expressions in Kumihimo. USA
2005: Exhibition of Japanese and Andean Braids. Japan
Regular exhibitor with the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers,
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The Embroiderers' Guild. UK
Collaborated with Charlotte de Syllas and Diana East for one-off pieces.
Commissions from jewellers and piano restorer.
Author: Textures & Edges for Takadai Braids 2005 self published.
"I continue my lifelong commitment to textiles, seeking to balance research
with developing my own personal work, alongside the rewards of teaching & lecturing
freelance throughout the UK."
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Detail: current takadai braids, using a combination of fibres.
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