Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
Apt 41 Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU
T: 020 8943 1229 - F: 020 8977 9882 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
Apt 41 Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU
T: 020 8943 1229 - F: 020 8977 9882 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
The Embroiderers' Guild celebrated its centenary in 2006, with a wide range of events that took place throughout the UK, including In Our Time at the 2006 Knitting and Stitching Shows, art of the STITCH & SCHOLAR, and a week of celebrations entitled A Stitch in Time.
The Guild was set up in 1906 by 16 graduates of the Royal School of Art Needlework to "deal entirely with embroidery, and with the first object of keeping up a high standard of work and design".
Now the largest crafts association in the UK, the Embroiderers' Guild is a leading educational charity and registered museum, with a lively programme of exhibitions, events and workshops, a network of 25,000 adult and young Members and subscribers, and 328 Branches and Young Embroiderers groups. It has enjoyed Royal Patronage, presently that of HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, and had a number of homes until its move to Hampton Court Palace, where it has been based since 1980.
The Guild's centenary year was filled with events and exhibitions throughout the UK, at national, Branch and Regional level including those below. You can see images of some centenary events in our centenary photo gallery.
Celebrating embroidery and the Embroiderers' Guild
centenary (1906-2006)
Embroiderers shared memories of the pieces that started their love affair with
stitch, through In Our Time, an event that celebrated
the 100 years the Guild has been in existence.
In Our Time was shown in 2006 at the Knitting & Stitching Shows in Birmingham, London, Dublin and Harrogate
There is a web page displaying a number of embroideries and the memories they evoke, on the Twisted Thread web site.
A wide range of events took place at various locations throughout the UK from 28 April to 7 May 2006.
art of the STITCH is a major international open biennial exhibition presented by the Embroiderers' Guild in association with Coats Crafts UK, and aims to represent the diversity of contemporary embroidery. This edition fell within the Guild's centennial year, and was accompanied by SCHOLAR, a retrospective show of work from Guild Scholars since 1995 (the year of the first ever art of the STITCH exhibition).
Left: The Art of Yo, Louise Gardiner
art of the STITCH & SCHOLAR showed at
For information about art of the STITCH 2008, please contact Lucy Mayfield on 020 8943 1229 ext 26
