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Knitting Embroidery Quilting Sewing…
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The British islesGuest of honour country
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Overall presentation…Ever since our very first show, this has been the meeting placefor all aficionados from Planet Textile! Patchwork, Quilting, Sewing,Embroidery, Home Decor, Knitting, along with some of the best-knownexperts, for 4 days in HALL XXL du Parc des Expositions de la Beaujoire from April 21st-24th, 2021! This hall has been chosen especially for all the technical equipment it has available. Natural daylight flows in throughout the day and it is located in the centre of a gorgeous landscaped park on the banks of the Erdre river. In 2019, over 13,600 visitors attended this world-class event.Its fame has transcended borders. It is now recognised worldwideand attracts visitors from many countries every year.
For our 12th Edition, we have chosen the British Isles as our guest country of honor and there will be much to see!
13,600 visitors in 2019 for our 11th e d i t i o n
6,000 m2 including 1,700 m2 of gallery space!
20 exhibitions featuring 30 guest artists a n d d e s i g n e r s .
Exhibitors
The Big Screen, one of our exclusive offers!
Visitors watching live demos (with French/English transla-tions) will learn more about new products and techniques, which can also be viewed on a big screen. This is a major plus for brands and exhibitors who would like to get the word out on their products. This feature is unique!
Classes & Workshopsto improve techniques...
The show also provides an opportunity to attend numerous classes and workshops taught by renowned teachers, to intro-duce beginners to the joys of fibre art or pass on skills and tech-niques. And for those looking to share and join in the community spirit, just pop in to the Bloggers’ Corner and charity booths to enjoy the friendly atmosphere of the event.
The «Make & Take» Lab was launched in 2019 so that novices could disco-ver and learn the basics of sewing and patchwork. Thanks to its huge succes, we will amplify the work space for our
2021 show to 100 m2. The creative hub will be located at the heart of our show space, right next to the Big Screen TV.Oriane, aka Big Red, and Carmen (participants in the French tv program «Cousu Main») will be our star animators, guiding you through the different steps needed to complete your pro-ject. 30 minute workshops will be held from Wednesday to Friday.
Katarina Roccella
Guest of HonorPartners
Creative Lab
Oriane aka Big Red & Carmen
A longtime, die-hard fan of Shizuko Kuroha, Etsuko was lucky enough to meet her hero at the 2012 Tokyo Quilt Festival, where she was awarded the Grand Prix First Place. It was a well-deserved honor, rewarding her inspiring work with indigo textiles and her marvelous ability to breathe new life into antique Japanese fabrics.
Etsuko IshitobiHaving studied with Yoko Saito for 30 years, Megumi Mizuno has accumulated a wealth of knowledge, all the while honing her craft and developing her own, unique approach to needlework. Her highly imaginative works are regularly featured as part of the prestigious Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival.
Megumi MizunoThis Australian artist has been making quilts for over 30 years. Blending luxurious prints with a vibrant color palette, Sue’s work exudes vitality and creative freedom. Every one of her quilt shows is a feast for the eyes, and she has inspired hundreds of quilters across Australia over the last few decades. She is also a beloved teacher, and has a loyal following at Material Obsession, in Sydney.
Sue RossDutch artist Willyne Hammerstein doesn’t really need an introduction… After traveling the globe with her Millefiori quilt saga, she is back with a fourth opus, which explores English Paper Piecing and features entirely new projects. No doubt this latest book will be as successful as the previous ones.
Willyne Hammerstein
Every year, we re-create a gallery of “homes” for our invited artists so you can view their work in an original setting.
Artists
Passionate about primitive style and folk art, Bonnie is an American artist with a boundless talent for breathing new life into second-hand objects. With a dose of her own, unique magic, Bonnie mixes charm, elegance and vintage with spectacular results!
Bonnie Sullivan
This world-renowned Australian artist has won the hearts of traditional quilt lovers everywhere. A hexagon and English paper piecing expert, she made her mark as a designer, collaborating with Marcus Fabrics on a beautiful collection of reproduction fabrics. Her latest book, Seams Like Yesterday, is already an international hit.
Jo ColwillKaren Styles
From her home in the woods of Missouri, Dawn creates beautiful folk-art pieces that exude the traditional country style. Her work conjures up all the warmth and simplicity of traditional, old quilts, and will make you want to linger for hours in her Home Sweet Home.
Dawn HeeseCowslip Workshops is well known among British quilters and those further afield, and artists from around the world converge on this ma-gical spot in Cornwall. Jo is the soul of this wonderful place, which is part-farmhouse, part-classroom, and which also houses a fabulous coffee shop and, of course, an unmissable quilt store. Jo recently put all of her enthusiasm and love of quilting into a book — a poetic com-pilation of quilt designs inspired by nature or animals. Last year, Jo won First Prize in the Two Person Quilts category at the Birmingham Festival of Quilts.
Artists
Mary Kerr
Mary is both a quilter and a historian. She has a big heart, that is overflowing with love for her family and friends, and for all things vintage — be that objects, textiles, or papers. Her greatest pleasure is rummaging through her boxes to fish out an orphan block or fabric scrap, and breathe new life into them. Her minimalist designs lend a modern twist to traditional quiltmaking patterns.
A British antique dealer and collector, Christopher fell in love with antique quilts and textiles as a teenager. Today he owns one of the most stunning collections of 19th Century British quilts, including exceptional large-scale pieces that recently delighted quilt enthusiasts in Houston (2018) and Birmingham (2019). @antiquequiltcompany
Tilda is celebrating 20 years of creativity, and we are over the moon to have Norwegian designer, Tone Finnanger, as our special guest. She will be presenting her new collections and creations — a burst of gentleness and playfulness that will be sure to delight.
Christopher Wilson Tate
Tilda
Tone FinnangerArtists
Odile Mandrette
With a background in sculpture and ceramics, her approach to textile arts has evolved over time, starting with the incorporation of small bits of cloth in her ceramic works. With time, this versatile, distressed, pre-dyed and endlessly malleable material has become one of the artist’s preferred mediums. Her « Daughters of the Air » dresses, with their flying carpets, evoke a spatial odyssey — a descent into circular motion that can also be read as an invitation to dance.
Guldusi, an Afghani hand embroidery initiative, will be our special guest in 2021, with around twelve large quilts on display. A group of ten XXX and two European women collaborated on these embroideries, which tell the story of the meeting of two cultures. Each work comes with a text that tells the story behind the quilt. Learn more at: www.guldusi.com
A selection of 30 works made by members of the European members of the Modern Quilt Guild.
Pascale GoldenbergBest of Japanartist 2020
The most beautiful works by
Japanese artists featured
at the 2020 Tokyo Quilt
Festival.
Artists
Anne Kelly
Sophie Morille
British textile artist Anne Kelly collects all sorts of recycled paper, textiles and other materials, which she enhances using a host of different techniques: embroidery, photography, printing and other forms of embellishment. The result: highly original collages, so-metimes based around a single scrap of fabric, that have been described as “small worlds.”
Magenta Kang
Janet Clare
Magenta Kang lives in Cambridgeshire, England, but was born in Korea, where she learned as a child the art of Pojagi. Her work is inspired by nature and found things, and by wood, which she often wraps or adorns with fabric, to incorporate into her ta-pestries. For her Pojagi quilts, Magenta plays with transparency, color and geometry, creating delicate and painstakingly precise compositions. www.magentakang.com
This British artist has won over the hearts of quilters worldwide with her naïve and charming textile tableaux. For a while now she has been exploring an entirely new genre, experimenting with large-scale geometric compositions and minimalist designs with a limited palette. She is also a fabric designer for MODA, creating stunning collections of contemporary prints.
Sophie Morille likes to blur the lines between de-sign, art and illustration. She brings her passion for drawing, for patterns and for color to the art of weaving, printmaking or natural dyeing. Ins-pired mainly by nature, which surrounded her as a child, her creations exude gentleness. In her studio at La Montagne, near Nantes, Sophie is constantly exploring her love of all things hand-made: sosochampignon.blogspot.com
Designers
Isabelle Cellier blends clashing techniques and materials to reimagine traditional needlework. Precious antique textiles, found in second-hand stores, are married to soiled rags, silk is used alongside string… ISE puts her own stamp on an ancient craft, reimagining techniques such as embroidery, to which she brings a wild, figurative quality.
Angela Daymond is a fiber artist and instructor, specializing in Kantha embroidery and natural dyes, who loves to share her passion with others!
CONTEMPORARY SILK BOUTIS
Dominique Fave uses boutis technique to quite literally « sculpt » fabric into landscapes. Her designs, which draw their inspiration from the Asian and African continents, also play with
abstraction, mixing rhythm, texture and color with startling results.
Dominique Fave
Isabelle Cellier
Angela Daymond
Designers
QuiltFair was founded by Carol Veillon, Director of Quiltmania Editions.
PRICE LIST ADVANCE ORDERS (PURCHASE ONLINE)4-day Pass VIP: 60€ • 4-day Pass: 30€ • 2-day Pass:: 20€Group tickets: 11€ (min. 10 pers./group) Adult ticket: 12€
ENTRY RATE AT THE DOORAdult ticket: 13€ 2-day Pass: 20€4-day Pass: 30€
Free entrance for those under 21 and for disabled persons (on presentation of proof).
DATES: Wednesday, April 21st - Saturday, April 24th, 2021
OPENING HOURS: From Wednesday to Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm
HAPPY HOUR: Free entry every day from 4 pm to 6 pm
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HALL XXL Parc des expositions, Route de Saint-Joseph de Porterie, 44300 Nantes, France
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