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East Anglian Stitched Textiles (EAST) are currently involved in a project, and produced a body of work based on the Warner Textile Archive in Braintree, Essex, UK. This exhibition will be officially known as:
EAST @ The Warner Textile Archive
Each member of the group has found an object or design in the archive (see right) and has used this as the starting point for their own contemporary piece of work.
Each artist has produced not only a finished article, but also a sketchbook showing how their design has developed.
EAST launched the exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching shows in 2009 at London and Harrogate.
Visit the Gallery pages for a "virtual tour" of the EAST @ The Warner Textile Exhibition.
The exhibition will not be visiting any further venues in 2009, but will be travelling to the Warner Textile Archive at Braintree in October 2011 in conjunction with our TALKING TEXTILES Exhibition, which will be at the Braintree Museum from 10 September to 16 October 2010.
EAST have been supported by the Braintree Museum and District Trust. Their sponsorship has allowed us to have information boards on each individual exhibit, as well as boards about the Archive and the EAST Group. This exhibition is now a valuable educational and research tool for the group and the museum. Obviously EAST give a big THANK YOU to the support given to them by the Braintree Museum and District Trust.
Please contact the Braintree Museum or Warner Textile Archive for information on hiring this exhibition.
Warner Textile Archive
The Gallery of the Warner Textile Archive is open to the public - telephone 01376 557741 for information on opening times or information on how to arrange an appointment to see the archive.
This unique archive of textile manufacture and design, dating from the 18th century includes examples of every woven and printed fabric produced by the Warner Company. The archive also includes original artwork, for designs commissioned to furnish anything from ordinary homes to royal palces.
  
  
  
  
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Each artist visited the archive and chose something for their starting point -
Melinda - has been inspired by a piece of 1940s fabric, screen printed in the style of a 1930s fabric.
Janette - has chosen an 18th century fabric that was used by Warners to inspire a new piece in the 1950s and 1990s.
Susan - has chosen a 1950s design by Edward Bawden (Olympus) as her inspiration.
Diana - has chosen a textile by the name of Ridgemont to create her work.
Carol - started with a 1950s textile (Painted Vases), but is also looking into other 1950s designs.
Liz - has chosen a piece of fabric from the 1960s called Stargrass.
Anne - has been inspired by an ethnic design from the 1970s.
Delia - has also been inspired by coronation fabrics, but this time from years dating from 1902.
Lorna - has started with a 1930s design "Convolvulus".
Libby - has looked at the archive shelves themselves for inspiration, in particular the gard books.
June - has also been inspired by the archives themselves, but also by textiles by Marianne Straub.
Margaret - has chosen a blue and gold textile called Marble by Bertrand Whittaker, dating from 1923. (The example below is in a different colourway.)
Julie - is using a handwoven fabric "Oelander" designed by W Folliott in 1894 as her inspiration.
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