Welcome to The British Tapestry Group
Welcome to our website where we will show you what we have to offer. We are an enthusiastic and growing organisation whose aims are to:
- Raise the profile of woven tapestry as an art form
- Increase awareness of the process and scope of woven tapestry
- Provide a support and communication network for artists working in woven tapestry
- Circulate information about exhibitions, events and commissions
- Offer opportunities for exhibiting in both national and regional exhibitions
- Provide information about weavers who teach and those who welcome visitors
Review: Gerhard Munthe - Norwegian Pioneer of Modernism
Jan Kokkin (translated by Arlyne Moi) Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers (Stuttgart), 2018 Hardback, 296 pages; 48 colour and 200 b&w illustrations; bibliography; index of names. ISBN: 978-3-89790-517-7 Review by Sally Reckert (2021) Everyone interested in European Art Nouveau should add Jan Kokkin’s richly illustrated book ‘Gerhard Munthe: Norwegian Pioneer of Modernism’ to their library...
Blog: Tapestry weaving - a collaborative...
In May 2021 Anna Wetherall wrote this blog post posing the question of whether there was an ongoing role for online tapestry weaving networks. There were limited responses to this - in fact only two, both of which were personal perspectives with one claiming great personal benefits from participating in Anna and Irene Evison's Nearly Wild Weaving online activities and the other suggesting more time was needed before they were ready to go down the online network route...
Artist of the day: Gyllian Thomson
My way of creating has stayed much the same since graduating from Tapestry at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.I paint on paper. I then weave this image to create my Tapestries using the Gobelin technique, mainly in cotton and wool.
The optimism of the colour is important. The present is experienced in what I see in the countryside I live in since moving from the city. I am interested in the way that human intervention has altered the landscape of rural areas over the course of time. This human structuring of the landscape creates patterns and textures that influences my paintings into weave.