Last week I made a new discovery!! Our lecturer for professional practice is Claire A Baker, a textile artist specializing in embroidery https://www.facebook.com/claireabaker2/ . I couldn't make her web page open so I have posted her Facebook page instead... In the course of events which I think was more to do with our final major project rather than PP she brought in some of her work and talked a bit about embroidery and how it had evolved. Her work is very beautiful and very inspiring, the work she showed us was very varied and in places incredibly detailed. Totally beyond my patience levels although I would love to give it a go one day... this is yet another skill to learn when I have time!!!! Claire is very involved with the Babushkas of Chernobyl - another tale for another time - but very very interesting and worth looking at her FB page to find out more... but back to my new discovery... hidden away in among Claire's incredible embroidery were...