Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers: PETER COLLINGWOOD Special Edition

Peter Collingwood, who died in 2008, was the most important British weaver of the last 50 years. This special edition of The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers gives a comprehensive insight into Peter Collingwood’s technical knowledge and innovation which is mostly expressed in his own words.

“Handweaving is artistically justifiable only if it can keep abreast of contemporary movements in the world of architecture and fashion, if it can capture the spirit of the age in its textiles”

“In late 1952 I sent a rather pompous article ‘moving with the times’ to a magazine I had picked up in the Crafts Centre, Hay Hill, London. I was then weaving in my first workshop in North London, having spent two years training with Ethel Mairet, Barbara Sawyer, and Alistair Morton… The article was published in 1953 and a year later I was in the magazine’s Editorial Committee and Stayed there for the next twenty nine years”