At the Crewel Work Company we share a passion for historic needlework and for enabling others to enjoy historic designs through our kits and retreats. Our activities in the needlework world bring us into contact with incredible historic textile collections all over Britain. The people responsible for these collections are part of a network of custodians all over the country who work tremendously hard to house, treasure and celebrate historic needlework.
We are very excited to be releasing a trio of new crewel embroidery designs! Using natural red cochineal-dyed, fine, 2-ply embroidery wool supplied by Renaissance Wools, the Red Work Rabbit, Parrot and Nuthatch all come from original crewel work designs of the mid 17th century.
We are getting excited about the first Lady Anne's International Needlework Festival 2021 as we start to finalise venues, plan the workshops and bring together the tutors for this unique event. Your response to the Early Bird reservations has been amazing, and we know how much you are all looking forward to spending two weeks, dedicated to needlework in our home town of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
After what can only be described as a pre-summer summer here in England in February, we entered March with much cooler weather. As we were counting down the final days to the retreat it became clear that the rain wasn't going to let up.
While one might have wished the sun to return, in fact this is quite the most ideal weather for a residential retreat. With the perfect excuse to stay indoors, we could settle into long hours of stitching and watch the blustery wet weather from the comfort of our cosy hotel.
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