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_{A Gallery of Textile Art by Carol Coleman}

Putting the finishing touches to the 'Dire Wolf Crest', my contribution to the 'Hardhome Embroidery', created for HBO Game of Thrones. This huge embroidery was designed and produced by the Embroiderers' Guild with other organisations.

Visit www.embroiderersguild for more information and venues where you may find it exhibited.

Dire Wolf Crest

Free-machine embroidery with leather and beads. Diameter approx 12 cms.

Workshops

If you are interested in free-machine embroidery workshops in my studio near York, please email for full details. Cost is £35 for a full day unless otherwise specified, which does not include materials, but some available to buy if required.

Class size is usually limited to 5 students, but can run with just 2.

Levels from beginner to advanced.

Please email carol@fibredance to register for details of upcoming workshops in 2019.

Requirements will be sent out once booked.

Images relating to workshops

Ideas for what to make at the workshops.

In different shapes and sizes, the brooches could be made into many things.

Set in stone could be a pendant, brooch, bracelet, a feature on a book cover or bag etc.

Silk Fibre Bowls seem as delicate as cobwebs

Practical Coil Vessels can be many shapes and colours.

Clingfilm Sandwiches are unique collages of fabric and fibre waiting to inspire.

Scarborough Rock V

Scarborough Rock V. Fabric collage with couched cords and free-machine embroidery.

Glimpse of Yorkshire

Mosaic meets stained glass window. The top section of a tall piece using dyed silk and cotton, bonded and sliced to resemble mosaices and assembled to give the effect of stained glass.

My work can be seen at the following places or events:

6th - 7th & 13th -14th April 2019

York Open Studios. Lots of stitched textiles to see and demonstrations of free-machine embroidery over both weekends. www.yorkopenstudios.co.uk is where you will find comprehensive information.

25th - 26th May 2019. 10am - 4pm

Diverse Threads Spring Showcase at The Tithe Barn, Nether Poppleton. York YO26 6LB

July 2019

Wild About Textiles. With York Textile Artists in Knaresborough

Details to be finalized.

Email carol@fibredance.co.uk to arrange an individual visit to my studio in Wigginton near York.

Tree Bark

Free-machine embroidery of tree bark, about A4 in size. Taken from a photograph of a tree in Moorlands Nature Reserve, Wigginton.

Earth Beauty IV

Free-machine embroidery of an interesting rock.

Slice of the Past II

Applique, hand and free-machine embroidery, quilted and sprinkled with chips of Peridot, Citrine and Rock crystal. Private Collection.

Fibredancing: Brooches, Bracelets, Rings & Things.

Fibredancing

Available only from the author.

Soft cover, 32 colour pages showing how to start making free-machine embroidered jewellery. £9.50, post-free in the UK. Email me to order - carol@fibredance.co.uk