Demos – 11:00am – 5:00pm
Workshop – 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Demos – 11:00am – 5:00pm
Workshop – 2.30pm – 3.30pm
All ages
Blakey Moor Terrace
Demos – Drop in
Workshop – Sign up on the day
Demos – Free
Workshop – £10
Join Fishbone and Sycamore to try some frame loom handweaving and make a bookmark.
Inspired by the jacquard mechanism at Paradise Mill that Bea and Ruth use to produce jacquard silk, you will learn about punchcards, which inspired the world’s first computer, and how they are used within the jacquard handloom to communicate a design to the loom.
Demos all day 11am 5pm. To join a workshop ask at the venue on the day. Workshops cost £10.
About Heritage Crafts
The Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts, first published in 2017, was the first report of its kind to rank traditional crafts by the likelihood they would survive to the next generation, based on intangible cultural heritage safeguarding principles, led by Heritage Crafts, the only UK UNESCO-accredited NGO working primarily in the domain of traditional craftsmanship.
About Fishbone and Sycamore
Bea Uprichard and Ruth Farris are the sole designers of heritage jacquard handloom silk in the UK, a craft that teeters on the edge of extinction. They have spent three years restoring, weaving and perfecting lost skills at Paradise Mill in Macclesfield, where time has stood still since the Industrial Revolution.
Silk weaving is on the Heritage Craft Association’s red list of endangered crafts, and Fishbone and Sycamore is the result of Bea and Ruth’s resolve not only to preserve, but to breathe new life into the craft. They design and produce 100% silk neckerchiefs, badges, buttons and pins using deadstock silk, and only traditional processes, passed down through generations.