ACCESSORISE
Saturday 5th May - Saturday 28th July

A highly desirable collection of hand-crafted accessories or wearable art.
Cecilie Telle
We intend to investigate the link between the traditional values of craft and fashion where skills are recognised celebrated and pushed to their limits. Techniques such as hand sewing, embroidery, hand and machine knitting, felting and hand-hooking are explored by a select group of new and recognised designers who utilise their craft skills as the basis for innovation and creativity.
"Six hand made felt bags by Cecilie Telle."
The exhibition will focus on bags, slippers and conceptual items of jewellery. From the exotic, sumptuous feather collars of Kate Wilkinson ( her collar caused a stir when worn by Joan Bakewell at the Turner Prize ceremony).
Lynsey Jane Nicol

To the wearable fabric bracelets of Lynsey Jane Nicol, the up and coming designer who recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, which appeal to the senses through natural scent added to the material.
"My work combines current and past fashion trends in both the structure of the pieces and the fabric chosen. My idea is to create wearable pieces which link closely to fashion ideas, in many cases making the two subjects of jewellery and fashion inseparable. I manipulate the different fabrics into individual units which are then used as repeated elements within the structure."

"Scented Fabric bracelets by Lynsey Jane Nicol"

Emily Jo Gibbs has a small business producing evening bags and sells them to the most beautiful department stores and boutiques around the world. Several of her classic handbag designs are now in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Crafts Council, London.
"All my bags are small and based on very simple forms, but the designs vary greatly from very understated plain silk purses with crisp sterling silver handles to the more avant garde, inspired by natural themes, a leaf, a dandelion, a conker. The unique quality of all my bags is the metalwork, my delicate metal frames, handles and decoration that are hand sewn to each bag."
Emily Jo Gibbs
"Emily Jo Gibbs delicate metal handbag"
Worn at expressive points of the body, accessories have the freedom to be flamboyant, frivolous or classic and provide an excellent way to express your individuality.
Most items on display will be for sale, although larger items may be made to commission.

There are twenty three makers taking part in Accessorise.
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