We are super excited to have Gillian Harris, crafter extraordinaire, author and owner of The Gilliangladrag Fluff-a-torium! in Dorking joining us at thread 2017.  Meet Gillian in her special thread workshop to make some Wooltops Pompoms, and afterwards at her book […]

For the first of a number of Q&A’s with our thread 2017 exhibitors we were fortunate to speak to Karen Greenfield who runs The Drapers Daughter. We are really excited about seeing you at thread this year.  How did you […]

Lisa Takahashi, The Beauty of The Ride: Cycling Prints and Paintings,  Riverside Café Gallery, Farnham Maltings, 30 June – 28 July 2017 Riverside Cafe Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by painter- printmaker Lisa Takahashi. The show, a selection of […]

  We are delighted to have worked with artist Emma Block to create 2017’s thread festival image (above). This is the fourth year that London-based illustrator Emma has designed the artwork, her trademark style now synonymous with the textile event.  We […]

 Local, national and international crafters generously donated over 100 knitted, crochet and felt birds for the special Knit Aviary display at the annual knitting event, with birds being sold afterwards to raise funds for Step by Step. The charity works […]

 Visions of the Future Maltings Young Artist Award 2017 Riverside Cafe Gallery, Farnham Maltings, 5 – 30 March 2017 Awards Ceremony at Spark Youth Arts Festival: 5 – 8pm, 24 March 2017   Farnham Maltings is delighted to present the […]

Thank you to all our unravel visitors and followers for making it such a fantastic festival!  Now in its ninth year, unravel has become one of the industries favourite knitting festivals.  Over 3,000 attendees enjoyed all that unravel offers.  Visitors […]

With just over a week to go until we open the door to unravel, we caught up with Serena a previous visitor and now one of the craft team’s amazing volunteers.  Serena chats to us about her unravel experiences in […]

This week we were fortunate to chat to Renée Callaghan (East London Knit) who will be speaking and teaching at unravel 2017. Renée will be delivering a fantastic talk on handmade wardrobes and machine knitting and using her expert guidance […]