The Sampling Project

My installation work 'The Sampling Project' has been selected for the forthcoming 62 Group exhibition CTRL/Shift. The exhibition runs 21st July to 9th Sept 2018 at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham.

The Sampling Project (detail of installation) by Hannah Lamb, 2018 (photo by Yeshen Venema)

Threads

Twisting, knotting and constructing - threads of ideas coming together...

Words off the page

Yesterday I had the great pleasure to have some visitors to my studio for a workshop on 'Text & Textiles'. A more interesting and engaging group of people I couldn't have wished for, so along with the stitched words and letters we had a lot of words to exchange on so many subjects around art, textile, making, ownership, trade and history. There was so much to discuss, and it was good to be able to do it while stitching.

my own sampler

Jennifer's sample

Extended life textiles workshop

The second day of the Slow Textiles Conference at Stroud involved a workshop using stitch techniques to extend the life of textiles. Emma Neuberg taught us techniques inspired by Japanese embroidery, including sashiko quilting, satin stitch embroidery and a kind of lattice couching. My samples are still works in progress...

A nice opportunity to stitch in a group, it might be nice to do this more often.

Hirst Wood threads

This afternoon I took some of my work to Hirst Wood to experiment with it in the environment. I wound some yarn between three trees in a really open area of beech trees. I enjoyed the action - spilling thread off the cone; wrapping and winding; moving around the space and taking the yarn under, over and around.

    

Hanging the fabrics and photographs I found that these small pieces were most effective grouped closely together.

    

Digital embroidery experiment

My first experiment with using the multihead embroidery machine at MMU. I was fascinated watching the machine work, it is a bit like watching someone drawing frantically.

The design was taken from a drawing in my 'busy book' and I feel I have captured the sketchy qualities from the original drawing.  Although there are a lot of things I would like to improve and try, I was fairly pleased with this for a first attempt. I would like to try using multihead embroidery on top of digital prints on silk.