The programme for the day:
9.30-10.00am: Registration (tea/ coffee) (demonstrations/
stalls/ displays)
10.00-10.50am: Fiona Nisbet (textile artist), ‘Spinning: from
Fleece to Fabric’
10.50-11.30am: Tea/coffee (demonstrations/ stalls/ displays)
11.30-12.20: Deborah Wynne and
Graham Atkin (both University of Chester), ‘Woolly Stories: From Shakespeare to the
Brontës’
12.20-1.40pm: Lunch (demonstrations/ stalls/ displays)
1.40-2.30pm: Thelma Thompson (sheep farmer), 'It All Began With Tinker... Tales from a Shepherdess under Wenlock Edge'
2.30-3.20pm: Professor Sandy Black (Centre for Sustainable
Fashion, University of the Arts), ‘Wool in Knitting and Fashion: From
underwear to couture’
3.20pm: Closing remarks
Tickets cost £15 and can be bought via the University of Chester's Shopfront Shopfront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6
Alternatively, you can send a cheque for £15 made payable to 'The English Dept, University of Chester' (put your contact details on the back), and send to Prof D. Wynne, The Guildhall, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury SY3 8HQ
The event will take place in The Guildhall, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury SY3 8HQ
A view of the Guildhall from across the River Severn. In the foreground is the 'Quantum Leap', a memorial to Charles Darwin.
