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Uncover the secrets from top textile artists. Find out where to look for inspiration, how to develop ideas, master techniques to bring your art to life, and more.

            Sila Gur: Who’s that girl?

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            A stitched artwork of three women wearing bright coloured clothes

            Emma Pannell: Stitching on a tin can

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            A golden metal plate with colourful embroidered flowers.

            Beverly Ayling-Smith: Stitching grief’s raw edges

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            Beverly Ayling-Smith, Wall of Memory (detail), 2017. 270cm x 175cm (9' x 5.75'). Painting, hand and machine stitch. Bedsheet, paper, bitumen, silk threads, machine embroidery threads.

            Winnie van der Rijn: Subverting the patriarchy with textiles

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            A pile of fabric handkerchiefs with red embroidered 'lipstick' stains

            Alice Burnhope: Sensory stitching

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            Alice Burnhope stands inside her textile artwork 'Stone Upon Stone' looking up.

            Robin McCarthy: Wired for stitch

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            A close up of a stitched, abstract artwork of a magnolia.

            Monika Kinner: Prairie land thread paintings

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            Close up of a colorful yarn artwork depicting an autumnal field with clouds in a blue sky

            Richard Saja: Subversive stitching

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            An embroidery of three figures deep in conversation.

            Archana Pathak: Transient threads

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            A close up detail of a stitched artwork representing a delicate mountain range on linen

            Bonnie Peterson: Stitch activist

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            A close up detail of a colorful patchwork quilt with hand stitched writing on it