AS PART of the Stroud Water Textile Festival, the lives of two Arts & Crafts textile printers, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, who lived in Painswick and whose fabrics continue to influence our everyday lives, are celebrated by Jean Vacher, from the Craft Study Centre in Farnham.
Phyllis Barron was a pioneer in the revival of the art of hand block printing. Starting in 1905, she set out to rediscover many of the techniques which had been lost in industrial development.
Her introduction to block printing was through a collection of woodblocks found in a French market. Barron recognised their patterns as the prints of French countrywomen's aprons and dresses that she had seen during her frequent painting holidays in Normandy.
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Barron's training as a painter, at the Slade, and knowledge of French peasant textiles led her to pursue natural dyes on unbleached linens, cottons, organdie and silk, producing muted colours.
In 1923 she was joined by painter Dorothy Larcher, who had lived in India for a number of years, where she had observed dyeing and hand block printing techniques.
The talk is on Sunday, 11.30am at the Museum in the Park, £10.
For further details call 01435 808076 or visit www.stroudwatertextiles.org.uk
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