Jane Smith travelled
from Lancashire to give us an interesting and informative talk on
Japanese Embroidery. She told us about the history, showing us
photos of embroideries which dated from 700AD forward to the modern
day, continuing to describe the levels of expertise that students are
expected to obtain to move forward with their studies. Jane had
brought examples of her and her colleagues wonderful work. It was a
delight to see the embroideries which were intricate and executed
with such skill. She also told us about the costs of some of the
fabrics, which contained pure gold. She had timed her work, some
pieces had taken 300 hours.
Jane has a website : http://www.nejiribana.co.uk/p/home.html where she gives more detail and has a gallery of her work. Defiantly worth visit!
Airedale
Embroiderer's Guild would like to thank Jane for the talk.
