Ria’s knitwear will be available to purchase from Frome’s Black Swan Arts Gallery this festive season.

We will be hosting 15 carefully selected artists and artisans each offering unique items from the best that the South West has to offer. With stylish homeware, handmade jewellery, personalised presents and ceramics, prints and other Christmas goodies, people will be able to tick everything off their shopping list in one easy convenient location. What’s not to love!

The Work will be displayed in the beautiful Long Gallery, with its wooden floors and beams and huge windows. Sara and her team will create a festive atmosphere in the historic building, transforming it into a picturesque and magical space to pick up unique gifts for your friends and family.

Open from 3 November to 31 December 2023

Monday to Saturday: 10am to 4pm

Sundays: 11am to 4pm

https://www.blackswanarts.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/

A selection of Ria’s knitwear will feature and be available to purchase in New Brewery Arts’ gallery this festive season.

Joy! is our celebration of everything crafted for the season. Spread throughout our shop and our gallery we bring you work by hundreds of UK craftspeople.

From exquisite homewares to make your space truly special to cards from illustrators and designers to handmade gifts for everyone - we have just the thing.

Feel great about your seasonal shopping, knowing that buying from us supports craftspeople and our charitable activities throughout the year.

https://newbreweryarts.org.uk/main-gallery

New Brewery Arts in Cirencester’s latest exhibition showcases the work of selected South West England Fibreshed producers, from farmers to mills, and dyers to makers.

Ria will be exhibiting new work made with her new laceweight yarn, which has been produced entirely within the South West Fibreshed region, along with a display of natural dye plants and colour samples.

Who grew your clothes?

To harness our local resources to produce anything as sophisticated as a garment of clothing involves many processes, and a network of farmers, growers, mills, manufacturers, and designers as well as advocates, activists, and bloody-minded facilitators who are determined to create a new paradigm for fashion.

Fibershed is a movement. Its goal: the development of systems from ‘soil to soil;’ where textiles are grown, processed, designed, sewn, sold, worn, and eventually composted. These processes offer a means of connecting the fashion industry with community, with society and with the environment so that they can all thrive.

This exhibition is an introduction to South West England Fibreshed.

Started in the USA, the Fibershed movement uses the American spelling ‘fiber’. UK affiliate communities follow the British spelling ‘fibre’.

Free entry. For more information visit: https://www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/main-gallery