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World Wide Weave showcases at the National Wool Museum
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2015-04-20The National Wool Museum in Dre-fach Felindre is delighted to welcome a brand new exhibition this spring.
The Camphill Foundation’s World Wide Weave display will showcase from Tuesday 21 April to Thursday 7 May and is an exciting addition for visitors to the site.
The works celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Camphill Movement which began on 1 June 1940 when the first small group of Viennese refugees moved into Camphill House on Deeside close to Aberdeen.
The project has involved hundreds of people in more than half of the total of Camphill Foundation’s 121 communities in 25 countries across four continents. Every one of the 75 pieces of textile art in the exhibition is unique and each one has its own story to tell.
Some of the artworks are created by schools and colleges, but most are by adult communities where people with and without developmental disabilities and learning difficulties live and work together to create a holistic and fulfilling community life.
One spectacular example is a brilliantly coloured image of a tree in all four seasons, from Larchfield community near Middlesbrough, using the techniques of wet and needle felting with Merino, Wensleydale and Teeswater wool - some from their own sheep.
Wales is also well represented in the exhibition with a wonderful atmospheric golden autumnal design from Coleg Elidyr near Llandovery and a modern semi-abstract collage from Glasallt Fawr in Llangadog. Community members from these places will help to steward the exhibition and during certain times, visitors will be able to see them at work on their looms.
Speaking about the arrival of the exhibition, Head of the National Wool Museum Ann Whittall said: “It is an honour to be one of the venues chosen to display this international exhibition and a fantastic opportunity for our visitors to enjoy textile art which of course transcends boundaries of language, culture, religion and politics.”
Exhibition organizer Peter Bateson said: “I am very much looking forward to bringing the exhibition to Carmarthenshire. It was important to ensure Wales was included along with all other parts of the UK and Ireland, and what better place than the National Wool Museum, a truly historic venue in an area of such great natural beauty.”
This exhibition is currently on tour taking in the whole of the UK and Ireland in 2015 and plans are being made to allow it to move on to Switzerland, Finland and North America in 2016.
More information can be found at the website www.camphillfoundation.net