What’s On

Local Links:

Association of Northern Stitch Groups: https://www.associationofnorthernstitchgroups.com/

Darlington for Culture: http://www.darlingtonforculture.org/  Instagram Facebook

Creative Darlington: https://creativedarlington.org.uk/. Instagram Facebook

National Links:

The Embroiderers Guild: https://embroiderersguild.com/ Instagram Facebook

Royal School of Needlework: https://royal-needlework.org.uk/om/ Instagram Facebook

Hand and Lock : https://handembroidery.com Instagram Facebook

Exhibitions:

UK

Barnard Castle:

22nd Mar 2025 – 1st Mar 2026 Bowes Museum: “Josephine: A Woman of Taste and Fashion

27th Sept 2025 – Jan 2026 Bowes Museum: “Dressed for Departure: Fashion in the Age of Rail

31st May 2025 – 18th Jan 2026 Bowes Museum: Claire A Baker: In Progress and Process”

London:

25th Sept 2024 – June 2025. Hampton Court Palace: Divine and Mythical Creatures

26th Sep 2025 – 8th Mar 2026. Fashion and Textile Museum: “Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop”

27th Mar 2026 – 13th Sept 2026. Fashion and Textile Museum: “Paint! Pattern! Print!”

Until 22nd Mar 2026.. Victoria and Albert Museum: “Marie Antoinette Style”

Manchester:

10th Jul 2026 – 3rd Jan 2027 Whitworth Art Gallery: “Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven”

12th Dec 2026 – 14th Nov 2027 Whitworth Art Gallery: “William Morris: Common Paradise”

Sedbergh:

17th Sept 2025 – 21st Dec 2025. Farfield Mill: “British Tapestry Group – Tapestry of the North: Our Textile Heritage”

7th Jan – 8th Mar 2026. Farfield Mill: “Avante Garde – International Textile Exhibition”

11th Mar – 31st May 2026. Farfield Mill: “Metamorphosis – Textile Competition Exhibition”

8th Apr – 12th Jul 2026. Farfield Mill: Untangling Colour – Vicky Ellis”

15th Jul – 13th Sept 2026. Farfield Mill: Text & Textile! – Connie Flynn”

15th Jul – 13th Sept 2026. Farfield Mill: Glimpses of our Bay – Artybird Carnforth Fellowship Alumni”

16th – 20th Dec 2026. Farfield Mill: Textile Fusion – Diane Standen”

16th – 20th Dec 2026. Farfield Mill: Pathways – Contemporary Quilt”

Sunbury on Thames:

4th Apr 2025 – 20th Dec 2025 Sunbury Embroidery Gallery: “Will Clarke: Architectural Impressions”

OVERSEAS

New York:

10th Sept 2025 – 4th Jan 2026 The Museum at FIT: “Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis”