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Back from Glorious Ghana. The tour was fabulous. So was the shopping!
We're just back from a fantastic month in Ghana. This year, in addition to our usual endeavours - discovering, researching and buying wonderful textiles, beads and baskets - we ran our first Glorious Ghana tour.
We had a fantastic time sharing our love of Ghana, its friendly people and diverse cultures with nine adventurous and enthusiastic textile lovers.
More info: Travel - Glorious Ghana
Our next tour is January 2013, operated in partnership with our friend Fiona Wright of Creative Arts Safaris
Fiona's motto "Live, laugh and learn" is the perfect description of our first Glorious Ghana Tour. Thanks to our fellow travellers for a wonderful and rewarding journey.
Magie Relph with the basket weavers
of Gambigo village, near Bolgatanga in northern Ghana
NEW Hand-dyed batiks, African wax prints and mud cloth now on the website
As we travel and research in Africa, we are always searching for new artists with new techniques and ideas. This year, in addition our friends Esther and Gracia, we met two exciting new batik makers - Peace and Na Dee.
You can drool over their fantastic fabrics on our Batik Hand-dyed page or at a textile event near you.
World Textile Day - Wales
Stitched Stories: Telling Tales in Cloth
Textile fanatics across the UK agree: a day out for the clothaholic doesn't get much better than a chance to admire, study, touch and - yes, buy! - fantastic fabrics sourced by genuine world textile experts on their travels around the world.
Since the first World Textile Day Wales in 2009 - attended by quilters, embroiderers, spinners, weavers and dyers from as near as the local valleys and as far as Manchester, Bristol and even Lincolnshire! - the response from visitors and textile enthusiasts alike has been unanimous: Fantastic.
Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Wales, SY18 6BY. 10.00 am - 5.00 pm.
All about: World Textile Day Wales
Sat 17 Mar 2012
Now there are two! World Textile Day - Scotland
An Exhibition of Costume, Creativity and Colour
All about: World Textile Day Scotland
Sat 16 Jun 2012
Style Africa
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
In this unique collaborative exhibition, curators from the museum join forces with young people from Birmingham University to create a unique presentation of the museum's significant collection of West African textiles.
Supporting the exhibition, Magie Relph will contribute pieces from her own collection and will present a series of hands-on workshops at the museum - details to be announced soon.
More info: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
31 Mar - 2 Sep 2012
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Design detail of Ewe Kente cloth
by master weaver Ahiagble Bob Dennis
NEW Workshops in 2012: With quilter and textile artist Magie Relph
Magie Relph has developed some exciting new workshops for quilting and textile groups.
Broken Windows
A new twist on the traditional 9 patch block
Extreme Appliqué
Reverse appliqué, appli-quilt, Trapunto and more...
Medallions Made Easy
Quick and easy piecing techniques
African Wax Print: A Textile Journey
We've been absolutely delighted with the reaction to our new book. It's been selling like crazy in Accra, Ghana and it is now available in these prestigious museums - The British Museum in London, The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam and the Afrika Museum in Berg En Dal, The Netherlands.
Here's a taste of what people have been saying.
I love this book. It is interesting, informative, funny, thought provoking. The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. Spring 2011.
Magie and Bob took me on a magical journey to Africa through not only their words, but the images and inspirational textile art that illustrate their story. A fabric feast to make your mouth water. Jancie Gunner, stitched textile artist and author of Shibori for Textile Artists.
£13.95 plus P&P
Using African Fabrics
Thanks to many of my loyal and creative customers, I've been collecting digital images of quilts, wallhangings, clothing, bags - you name it! - all demonstrating how you can use African fabrics in your work.
To show these images to the world, I've created a new page on the website: Using African Fabrics
I'm going to try (!) to keep this page up-to-date with new images as my customers create new and exciting things.