Today we were really pleased to be able to have a talk by Pippa Foulds (RSN) via Google Meet. 17 of us made it despite a Google outage which seemed to affect some of us – shouting at laptops ensued when emails and the internet disappeared, but we eventually made it!
Pippa’s love of needlework started at a young age and continued through her school years and career as a solicitor. At the Knit and Stitch she visited the Royal School of Needlework stand and from that took Tracy Franklin’s course in Durham.
Her journey through to the RSN Diploma encompassed crewel work, silk shading, canvas work, goldwork, blackwork, whitework, stumpwork – you name it Pippa’s done it! Part of her qualification as a future tutor involved conservation too.
Pippa has a particular interest in historical 16th/17thC embroidery but since completing her Diploma is branching out into more contemporary work requiring a little less precision.
You may have seen the White Walker embroidery Game of Thrones – many RSN embroiderers worked on the piece and Pippa contributed one of the shields
Pippa has gone on to create a corsage for the queen and became head broiderer at York minster.
She is now working on a degree at Bradford in contemporary textiles.
We had an enjoyable afternoon listening to Pippa tell us about her embroidery journey and it was lovely to be able to have something that resembled a normal meeting even with fickle technology.
A few screen shots (apologies for the quality) of Pippa's talk.
