Fashion, Stitch, Make-Do-And-Mend

Convenience culture, buy-and-throw-away wastefulness needs challenging.

We'd like to see a revival of people making and creating everyday things in a practical way while still keeping an eye on the decorative and beautiful. To place all this in a historical context - to have a more rounded understanding of where things come from - is also a good idea.

With this in mind, we met Meridith Towne earlier in the year over at North Yorks Art School in Scarborough. We wanted to see how we could work together on future workshops. Meridith is a dress historian/ dress designer and has a background in historic costume design.

She came across as very knowledgeable about her areas of interest and ticked all of our boxes when we met her; someone who wants to take art and crafts back to fundamentals and share her considerable knowledge of costume history, design and creation with…

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