International Postcards
The Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild
goes international
By
L.G. de Tonnancour
Last
January, through a member of our group, we learned that The West Riding Ruggers
from Bradford, England was preparing a rug
show of their own at the Bradford
Industrial Museum to be seen from May 2,
2009 till July
12, 2009. An email, from them, invited ruggers to send pictures
of themselves with their rugs, done in any technique, to be exhibited under the
International Postcards.
In the spirit of Show &
Tell, our guild sent a disc of photos. Over sea, the idea followed its
course, the response was encouraging and with the work and dedication of a
wonderful group of people the exhibition has become reality. Read
the press release and see some pictures of the show... I have no doubt, you
will be charmed.
The
pictures were taken by Lora West. All of it was emailed to us by Mrs
Penelope Gardiner.
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| From left to right: Rosemary Allan, Curator at Beamish Museum, who gave a lecture about the rug collection at Beamish, and also opened the exhibition for The West Riding Ruggers; Penelope Gardiner; Diane West, the past Chair of the group, who coordinated the overseas postcards; Jenny Salton, another group member, who also did a lot towards the exhibition, she works at Tolson Museum in Huddersfield so her museum know how was very useful and she also master minded the panels, and Maggie Pedley, who is the Museum Manager at the Museum. |
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| From left to right: Brenda Jarman, Mary Lee, Kay Royce, Isabel Waterhouse, Lord Mayor, Marjorie, Renee, Margaret Kenny and Diane West. |
