 |  |  |  |  |
| WOMAN'S HOUR INTERVIEW Jenni Murray interviewed Jane Weir on Woman’s Hour (December 8th 2005) about her collection ‘The Way I Dressed During The Revolution’ and being brought up in Manchester. (Posted December 2005) Click on the link below to hear the interview. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_49_thu_05.shtml |
| News |
| All Readings, events and news involving Jane Weir are posted on the Templar Times e-newsletter. Subscription to Templar Times is free and may be completed HERE Spine, the companion of Walking the Block, is launched on 18th April 2012 at The Crafts Study Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey. Tickets should be booked in advance - further details click HERE |
Spine is a companion to Walking
the Block, and delves even deeper
into the the lives, work and
practices of the modernist
handblock printers Phyllis
Barron and Dorothy Larcher.
The poems are linked and
separated by prose poetry
passages which interrogate how
the completely separate and very
different wartime experiences of
Phyllis Barron and Dorothy
Larcher impacted, both
consciously and subconsciously,
on their designs, the patterns
which emerged and was
represented on their modernist
printed textiles.
Spine also develops further the
possibilities and boundaries of
poetic biography and
auto/biography, a journey which
began in Walking the Block.
Some of the ideas which emerge
and are explored in Spine are
considered in the Foreword
which may be read by clicking
HERE
Spine is available from the
Templar Poetry Online Bookshop
-
Please click HERE
the Block, and delves even deeper
into the the lives, work and
practices of the modernist
handblock printers Phyllis
Barron and Dorothy Larcher.
The poems are linked and
separated by prose poetry
passages which interrogate how
the completely separate and very
different wartime experiences of
Phyllis Barron and Dorothy
Larcher impacted, both
consciously and subconsciously,
on their designs, the patterns
which emerged and was
represented on their modernist
printed textiles.
Spine also develops further the
possibilities and boundaries of
poetic biography and
auto/biography, a journey which
began in Walking the Block.
Some of the ideas which emerge
and are explored in Spine are
considered in the Foreword
which may be read by clicking
HERE
Spine is available from the
Templar Poetry Online Bookshop
-
Please click HERE
Walking the Block is a
pioneering poetic biography
based on the lives, work and
practices of the modernist
handblock printers and textile
designers Phyllis Barron and
Dorothy Larcher.
Championed by Roger Fry their
work was widely commissioned,
between the first and second
world wars, and they were
among the last makers to use
natural dyes in their hand
printed textiles. Their work was
present in many places
including Girton College,
Cambridge, Winchester
Cathedral and in The Duke of
Westminster's yacht, 'The
Flying Cloud'. Coco Chanel
commissioned their work for
the upholstery of the garden
furniture of her Paris flat, but it
was also possible to order very
small pieces from them.
Walking the Block is innovative
and experimental; part poetic
biography as well as an
exploration of how textile
design, pattern and making
have affinities with poetry and
language which are seldom
recognised or explored.
The Foreword to the book may
be read by clicking HERE
Walking the Block is available
from the Templar Poetry Online
Bookshop
Please click HERE
pioneering poetic biography
based on the lives, work and
practices of the modernist
handblock printers and textile
designers Phyllis Barron and
Dorothy Larcher.
Championed by Roger Fry their
work was widely commissioned,
between the first and second
world wars, and they were
among the last makers to use
natural dyes in their hand
printed textiles. Their work was
present in many places
including Girton College,
Cambridge, Winchester
Cathedral and in The Duke of
Westminster's yacht, 'The
Flying Cloud'. Coco Chanel
commissioned their work for
the upholstery of the garden
furniture of her Paris flat, but it
was also possible to order very
small pieces from them.
Walking the Block is innovative
and experimental; part poetic
biography as well as an
exploration of how textile
design, pattern and making
have affinities with poetry and
language which are seldom
recognised or explored.
The Foreword to the book may
be read by clicking HERE
Walking the Block is available
from the Templar Poetry Online
Bookshop
Please click HERE