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Gina-B Silkworks

gina-b silkworks

Grantham

Gina-B Silkworks designs and produces a variety of craft kits, books, DVDs and other items with an emphasis on handwork & passementerie - decorative textile crafts. We also stock a range of tools & materials for these crafts. Gina also makes bespoke items to commission. "Traditional Crafts for the modern maker" About Gina - Gina Barrett has been making reconstructions of buttons, dress trimmings and other passementerie for museums and costumiers since 1999. Her work can be seen in a variety of museums, heritage sites & stately homes including the Royal Mews, the Royal Armouries, Historic Royal Palaces, The Victoria & Albert Museum, English Heritage, Chicago Museum of Art and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.  She provided buttons, ribbons and braid for an award-winning project at Perth Museum, and hundreds of buttons for the film “Sweeney Todd”. Her latest film work includes buttons for "Napoleon" and "Lee". She has created buttons & trimmings for various series including “The Crown”, “Becoming Elizabeth” , “A Stitch in Time”. She is the author of a number of books including Buttons, A Passementerie Workshop Manual, Dorset Ring Buttons, Thread Wrapped Buttons, Zwirnknopf Buttons and the Making Passementerie range of instructional DVDs. She appears on the Create & Craft channel with demonstrations of passementerie techniques, representing her company Gina-B Silkworks. Gina is the contributor for the Passementerie entry in the Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 (Brill). She has also co-authored Tak V Bowes Departed: A 15th Century Braiding Manual Examined and 6 booklets on medieval narrow wares, and regularly produces how-to articles for magazines, as well as papers and essays on other forms of passementerie. Gina has been involved in textile research projects with groups around the world, and is a founder member of Soper Lane, a group begun in 1999 to research the lives and work of the medieval London silkwomen.  Gina is a trained illustrator, with a background in historical and diagram illustration and graphic design. Her passion for textiles grew from studying historical costume for her illustrative work.

Leven Crafts

leven crafts

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Chaloner Street

Visit Leven Crafts today at our needlecraft shop in Guisborough and meet our lovely, friendly team. We love talking about all things sewing, crafts, embroidery, and more, and love sharing our needlecraft knowledge with our customers in a warm, friendly environment. Family Run and Dedicated Sewing Specialists At Leven Crafts we are proud to be a family owned and run, independent business. Based in Guisborough, sisters Ruth Myers and Lorna Shepherd run things with a dedicated small team of staff, each of them hand-picked for their needlecraft expertise, their superb customer service skills and friendly approach. We like our customers to have a relaxing and pleasant visit to our shop and needlecraft workshops, and we do this by making everybody feel welcome. All of our team are dedicated to making your visit enjoyable and welcoming, ensuring you will want to come back to visit us again. We also have an online store where we sell everything from quilting fabrics, embroidery and haberdashery supplies to knitting and crochet yarns. This is in addition to knitting needles, crochet hooks and sewing notions. Passionate and Knowledgeable We’re a passionate bunch, and our enthusiasm for all things needlework shines through in all areas of our approach. Our experience across many needlecrafts is wide-ranging and our goal is to pass this knowledge and experience on to our customers. So, whether you need advice on how to make a quilt, or perhaps you’re looking to buy knitting needles, quilting material, haberdashery equipment or dressmaking supplies, we’ve got you covered and can help you today. Come and Visit or Get in Touch Come and say hello and find the perfect range of quilting, sewing, embroidery and haberdashery, supplies in the UK. We love meeting new customers and sharing our wealth of knowledge with them, so come along to our Guisborough store for a chat about your needlecraft project or to buy your much-needed needlecraft supplies.