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BEAUTIFUL BISHOP'S CASTLE
Things are opening up here again, and our shop is open. We have decided to open on 4 days a week - Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 4 pm -NOTE WE WILL BE CLOSED ON SAT JUNE 5th (We will be doing our World Textile Day in Cheshire)
Our local Bishop's Castle campsite - the beautiful Foxholes with its 360 degree views of the Welsh and Shropshire Hills is open for business and so are the B and Bs, the Castle Hotel and most of the pubs. We are beginning to see more cars on the roads and more visitors in the streets, but as ever BC is a sleepy little town and never gets "rammed" apart from at Festival times. As for those ... I know Party in the Park in July is going ahead and I'm hoping that Michaelmas Fair will be back on in September

NEW DELIVERIES!
We have had some deliveries in from Java and Thailand lately so we are managing to keep stocked up. New on the Website
New designs in wooden printing blocks
More second hand copper stamps for batik
New contemporary batik fabrics from Java
Lovely old and worn vintage batik cloths from Java too

VINTAGE BATIK
We have always loved sorting through literally hundreds of old, used, worn, batik cloths and picking out a few gems from amongst them. We used to go to see Bu Dalmi in her home which was packed to the rafters with all kinds of batik - from literally rags which could be bought by the kilo - all the way through the various grades to some of the very best and most expensive. I have spent a lot of money with her in the past as she sometimes has little miracles of artistry and craft on her shelves - if only I have the time and patience to wade through it all.
As I can't do that this year, I have sent my indefatigable friend Susi along and given her the budget. We zap photos back and forth and hope for the best. Most will go into our patchwork sets or be cut into "fat quarters" but some are too fab to cut up and they find their way onto our Vintage Batiks Page to sell whole. Have a look here for our latest treasures. These are all individual one off pieces.

Bu Dalmi and Susi start going through some of the piles of vintage batik. And here are a few of the gorgeous old batiks we just received.

I have been a member of The Batik Guild for a good 25 years and have spent quite a few of them on the Committee first as Treasurer and then Chairman. We celebrated our 20th Anniversary, our 25th, our 30th and on Saturday June 12th it's the 35th Anniversary of the founding of the Guild. It all originated with the artist Noel Dyrenforth who was teaching batik in London. He and his students formed the Guild to put on exhibitions. Noel is still our honorary life President!
In the past decade we have really expanded geographically and we now have members all over the world - in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and America! The world of batik artists and batik lovers (I am the latter!) is small, and extremely well intertwined. We'll all be wearing batik on June 12th and next year we'll be celebrating properly with exhibitions in Wales and Florida!

BATIK WORKSHOPS ONLINE

If you really want to have a go at batik but don't know where to start.... or if you've done some batik but want to know more.... or even if you're pretty good but would like to see how somebody else does it - then Jude Flaherty is your woman! Try out her fabulous YouTube channel. And I hear she is devising her own tailor made courses - all online.

WORLD TEXTILE DAYS
Most of our World Textile Days are going ahead although some of the dates have changed. Here is the list of the new dates. We would love to see you there at one of them.
North - Frodsham, Cheshire on June 5th
Central - King's Sutton, Oxfordshire on July 3rd
Wales - Llanidloes, Powys on September 4th
Scotland - Bridge of Allan, Stirling on September 11th
West - Saltford near Bristol on October 2nd
South - Brockenhurst Hampshire New Forest on October 9th
East - Mundford, Norfolk on October 16th
Up to date details for all of these are on our World Textile Day website

SOME OTHER EVENTS WE'LL BE AT

As well as our World Textile Days, we have a few more shows lined up over the summer and autumn - including the Textile Bazaar at Hellen's Manor in Herefordshire in July,
The Weavers, Spinners and Dyers bi-annual Summer School in Essex in August
and Yarndale in Skipton, Yorkshire in September
All the dates and more information are on our Events Page

Sue Percy is one of our regular customers at Textile Traders in Bishop's Castle. The other day she popped in wearing a skirt she had made from two of our Blue and White Batik fabrics. I had to get a photo!

I hope you are all enjoying the summer weather.
All the best, Diane

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