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Following on from the popularity of our Mending Circles in 2018, we are making it a regular fixture on the BTQ calendar!
Meet • Other members of Bristol’s Textile Community
Make • New Contacts, Share Skills and start New Projects
Mend • Bring a beloved piece of clothing to mend (*no experience needed, we can help each other)
We continually meet new members of the textile community and we would love to find a way to join up the dots and create a true network for different skills so people can share their knowledge, help each other and collaborate and what better way to do that than by sitting round a table, sewing, chatting a having a drink!
A regular textile get together and mending circle. . . An informal gathering and opportunity for different local makers to talk about what they do, share their work and make any shout outs that they need for support, help and/or collaboration
Bring some pieces to mend with your sewing bits and bobs, there will be people on hand to offer guidance and advice.
Bring drinks and/or nibbles to share and mend* away.
2019 dates:
Tuesday January 29th – 18.30 – 21.30
Tuesday March 26th – RSVP via Eventbrite.
Wednesday April 24th – Fashion Revolution Week – There will be other activities including a Clothes Swap! Tickets are Free, RSVP via Eventbrite
Tuesday June 4th – Tickets available from Eventbrite
Tuesday September 10th
*** For a Step by step guide on Sashiko Repair, read Molly Martin’s tips in Toast Magazine
June 4, 2019
Have you got any last minute mending that needs doing before Christmas, or maybe you would like a welcome escape from the frenzy… Please join us for our *mending circle and bring any pieces of clothing and knitwear that you would like to repair and restore – there will be people on hand to give advice on various visible mending techniques, just bring your sewing bits and bobs.
*Hand-mending, no previous skills necessary – we can all help and mend together.
Please bring mince pies or nibbles to share.
We are very excited to be hosting this event at Old Market Plants – please note that capacity is limited to 20
Tickets are available, so please RSVP via Eventbrite
Date: Wednesday 19th December
Time: 18.30 – 21.30
Location: 48-50 Gloucester lane, Old Market, BS2 0DP
December 19, 2018
Our Clothes Cloth Swap and Mending circle returns! This will be our last meet up before Christmas, so dig deep and bring as many seasonal clothes as you can to share and swap.
Please join us for this casual networking/textile get together at Bristol’s textile-focused co-working space. An opportunity for different local makers and small businesses to talk about what they do, show each other their work and make any shout outs about what they need for support, help and/or collaboration
Bring the clothes you no longer wear (clean please!) some lengths of cloth if you have, along with some pieces to mend with your sewing bits and bobs.
Bring a bottle and/or nibbles to share and mingle, swap and mend* away.
*Hand-mending, no previous skills necessary – we can all help and mend together.
Tickets are free and will be on Eventbrite
Time: 18.30 – 21.30
November 13, 2018
The Clothes Swap and Mending circle is back, but this time we would like you to bring cloth too! Do you have some fabrics that you would like to swap?
Are you trying to be more “sustainable” in the way you choose, wear and mend your clothes…
This is an opportunity to come together and help create a healthier textile and clothing system in Bristol.
Please join us for this casual networking/textile get-together at Bristol’s textile-focused co-working space. Bring the clothes you no longer wear (clean please!) or those that you need to mend, some lengths of cloth if you have, along with your sewing bits and bobs. Bring a bottle and/or nibbles and mingle, swap and mend* away.
At our last event we explored more visible mending techniques and it was really inspiring – we hope to continue this conversation and explore other techniques, so do get in touch if you have an expertise!
*Hand-mending, no previous skills necessary – we can all help and mend together
Tickets are free but please book your place on Eventbrite.
September 18, 2018
In Our Hands is a new feature length documentary by Black Bark Films, commissioned by the Land Workers Alliance.
It’s the inspiring story behind the blood, sweat and tears of the British farmers seizing the Brexit moment to outgrow an outdated industrial food system. This film explores the daily reality of nine real life farmers who refused the machinery of big agribusiness and are proving, every day, that an alternative is not only possible – it’s profitable as well.
The film unearths both seventh generation traditional farmers and new entrants to the farming world, who are taking back control of their lives ad their livelihoods, from the soil upwards. A way of farmining that will “bring back life to the soil, a fair wage to the farmer and a flavour to the tomato.”
This film is taking Bristol by storm, and many have seen it already. However, as the South West England affiliate for the Fibershed initiative, BTQ invites you to watch In Our Hands through a fibres and textiles lens. The worlds and systems of food and fibre farming were traditionally interconnected, on rare occasion still are, and we see this film as being wholly relevant to reimagining what a more local, resilient, and healthy textile economy should look like here in the South West.
PLEASE JOIN US AT 18:30 for pre-film drinks and mingling, followed by the screening and an open discussion, hosted by Botanical Inks, Tamay & Me, Project Pico and BTQ, and chaired by Lizzie Harrison of Antiform.
PLEASE BRING: drinks, nibbles or picnic + something soft to sit on! (only limited chairs / benches available….) + an inquiring mind and maybe some thoughts to share (not obligatory)
Tickets available through Eventbrite
July 31, 2018
Following on from the success of the Fashion Revolution Week event, The Clothes Swap and Mending circle is back and will be a regular addition to the BTQ calendar.
Do you consider yourself “sustainable” in the way you choose, wear and mend your clothes?
How can we, wearers of clothes, help to create a healthier textile and clothing system in Bristol?
Explore these questions and more at this casual networking/textile get-together at Bristol’s textile-focused co-working space. Bring the clothes you no longer wear (clean please!) or those that you need to mend, along with your sewing bits and bobs. Bring a bottle and/or nibbles and mingle, swap and mend* away.
In June, we would like to explore more visible mending techniques and hope to have join us some experienced Boro stitchers and Darners to impart their knowledge
*Hand-mending, no previous skills necessary – we can all help and mend together
max.6 pieces of clothing per/person
Tickets are free but please book your place on Eventbrite here.
June 26, 2018
What does “Fashion Revolution” means to you?
Do you consider yourself “sustainable” in the way you choose and wear your clothes? Why?
How can we, wearers of clothes, help to create a healthier textile and clothing system in Bristol?
Explore these questions and more at this casual networking event at Bristol’s textile-focussed co-working space during Fashion Revolution Week. Bring the clothes you no longer wear (clean please!) or those that you need to mend along with your sewing bits and bobs. Bring a bottle and/or nibbles and mingle, swap and mend* away.
Incidentally the evening will be co-hosted by Emma from Awamaki, Hannah from Tamay & Me, Pheobe from Project Pico, and Babs from Botanical Inks, who have each engaged with these issues through their work with artisan groups and have thoughts to share on how craftsmanship, slow textiles and bioregional production play a part in revolutionising fashion.
*Hand-mending, no previous skills necessary – we can all help and mend together
Tickets are free but please book your place on Eventbrite here.
April 24, 2018
Come and Chatter with Tamay, the Red Zhao half of Tamay & Me. (Hannah, the other half, works from our studio at BTQ HQ.)
Drink tea (Tamay’s is green tea.)
Find just the right jacket for you.
Bring your embroidery to share, interesting textile pieces you have made or treasure
When:
Wednesday 22nd November, 10 am – 4pm
How to book:
Please contact Hannah to book an appointment (these will be limited:)
Tel: 07725696984
November 22, 2017
Since Summer 2014 1A Barton Road has been evolving into a Bristol hub of all things textile. Now home to Antiform, Bristol Textile Quarter, Dash+Miller and, most recently, the Bristol Weaving Mill, we thought it was time to open our doors in celebration of our collective endeavours.
Join us for an evening on Tuesday May 17th!
Timings and Things
18:00 – 19:00 Open doors and welcome from local historian who situates Barton Hill and Old Market textile industries in wider historical context, together with exhibition of city archive images.
19:00 Bristol Weaving Mill: who we are, networks and collaborations…introduced by Lizzie Harrison Antiform)
19:30 Bristol Textile Quarter: who we are, networks and collaborations…introduced by Lizzie Harrison (Antiform)
20:00 – 21:00 Drinks and informal networking
***20:00 Tour of Bristol Weaving Mill **LIMITED spaces, please email info@bristolweavingmill.co.uk in advance to reserve a place.***
Your ticket includes free drinks AND access to our exclusive pop-up shop featuring designs from Bristol-based Antiform, Tamay & Me and Mae Scarves.
May 17, 2016
LAUNCH EVENING Thursday 17th March
6.30 – 9.00 pm Bristol Textile Quarter
1A Barton Road, St Philips, Bristol BS2 0LF
Tamay & Me are proud to launch their first collection of entirely traceable and fairly-traded indigo cotton jackets.
Hannah Cowie and Ly TaMay have created two versatile unisex jacket designs to provide reliable and flexible employment for the Red Dzao community in Taphin village, Vietnam. Our label also aims to raise awareness of the Red Dzao’s exceptional embroidery skills.
The jackets are made using a zero-waste traditional pattern. The cotton and indigo are grown in the same village where the cloth is spun, woven and dyed. The embroidery is reclaimed from old clothes and even the silk braiding is hand plaited. Hannah and Tamay’s intention is that a piece of clothing can have a positive impact and that we should be proud of what we wear, an idea that is central to Red Dzao culture.
Come and hear the whole story, see the jackets and drink a glass of wine with us to celebrate the beginning of Tamay & Me, we would love to have you there.
March 17, 2016
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