We were thrilled to award Linda Steele the ECT Travel sponsor’s prize at Carrefour - European Patchwork Festival 2026 for her vibrant and transporting quilt ‘Turquoise Sea’. We caught up with the Melbourne-based quilt artist to find out more about her work, how she got started and the joy of travelling the fibre art world.
This December will sees Amsterdam burst into light thanks to the 15th anniversary of its magical Light Festival. In this week's blog, we take a look at the origins of the city's best loved winter event and look forward to this year's supremely sparkling edition.
For over fifteen years, Anitha Reddy, art historian and community-based textile art practitioner, curator and researcher, has been collaborating with the Siddis in Uttara Kannada in the south Indian state of Karnataka to make ‘kavands’ - quilts stitched from worn clothes and fabric that carry familial memory, reminiscence and remembrance in an attempt to reimagine authorship. In this week's blog, we find out more about the beautiful, storied work they make together.
Dublin and its surrounding area has much to offer horticultural students. As well as taking students to see the intriguing, painterly June Blake Garden and noted horticulturalist Jimi Blake’s creation at Hunting Brook (home to one of the largest private plant collections in Ireland), we can also work with The Gardens of Dublin to arrange access to some the area’s most distinguished private gardens.
