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Arts and Crafts News, September 1990, 3

Summary: Leisure opportunities for visually impaired people, esp. in local societies

• Editorial
• It’s a Material World!
• Craft Tipbits
• Some Useful Craft Addresses
• Letters
• The Toys (Safety) Regulations 1989
• Books about art on tape
• Visual Arts Cassette Titles
• The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Handicrafts for blind people: a select bibliography

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© RNIB Leisure Service

Editorial

Dear Reader,

I am pleased to be able to introduce our third ‘Arts and Crafts’ Newsletter. This is the first one that I have been involved with since I was appointed as Leisure Officer responsible for home-based activities, last April.

One of my main priorities is to develop leisure opportunities and services for older visually-impaired people. I’d be very interested to hear from any groups or individuals who organise leisure activities for this specific age group.

I hope you enjoy this newslettter. I would like to draw your attention to the Signpost Craft Information day on Thursday 29 November at the RNIB Armitage Hail. This will be an ideal opportunity for you to exchange ideas with other craft teachers/instructors. I hope you will be able to attend.

If you have any comments or ideas about the Newsletter please let us know.

Alan Whetherly, Leisure Officer (Home-based Activities)

It’s a Material World!

If you love crafts it’s ten to one that you will have at least one interesting cupboard wherein live all the projects you are about to finish - when you get five minutes, and all the projects you aim to start at the first available opportunity, not to mention the abandoned ’why did I ever buy this’, never to be finished stuff. My own large walk in and full cupboard is stacked with polythene bags looking pathetic and telegraphing the same old story...... no time.

If you have a nest of moth-gathering wools, carefully saved zips and buttons, braids and ribbons for things now forgotten, half-done dresses and old necklaces, think of the other thousands of ladies living in your area who are in the same predicament- ‘too good to throw away, still perhaps I’ll find time some day’! You could save them all that worry! You could take all the sad plastic bags away, emptying their cupboard and leaving them lots of glorious space to fill up at their leisure.

In other words have a ’wool cull’ or a ’crafty shower’ or you could have a kiddies competition - ask local children via the local media to ask their mums and neighbours (with due care to safety of course) for spare wools and have a prize for who can collect the most.

It would be a wonderful public relations exercise to have regular exhibitions of your society’s craftwork. You cannot lose. You get public awareness, you can ask for volunteers with the classes and ask for any spare craft materials that are gathering dust. Of course this is a lot of work. Perhaps you could find a nice volunteer to take this idea over. People who are keen on crafts themselves are the best to approach. Women’s Institutes are good value and very supportive. Please tell the world what you are all doing. Keep on telling them and asking for help. Don’t hide your clients’ lights in your respective craft cupboards. Ask for the moon in felt decorated with sequins! You never know what might happen. Let me know what happens..... I’ll just put down my half finished tapestry.

Denise

Craft Tipbits

As you know, getting hold of materials when you want them and at a price that is affordable is not always easy. To that end I hope to keep an updated list of suppliers on hand. This means that I would like to hear from anyone who has a good source of materials or from anyone who has had a bad experience with a supplier.

An initial list of some well-known suppliers follows this article and I will add any that come to my notice in the following issues. On the subject of suppliers, the wool for our celebration quilt which is well under way was supplied by Rowan Wools and I would like to thank them for their help and generosity.

I hope that many of you subscribe to ’Workbox’. This is a very good, interesting magazine for those of us who enjoy embroidery, started by a real enthusiast, and it has gone from strength to strength. I recently had a letter published in it asking for volunteers for craft classes all over the country and have had quite a few letters. A copy of the letter is in the ‘Letters’ Page.

I recently went with a party of visually impaired people to the Chisnell Gallery in East London, where we were all allowed to play with clay and make a plaster mould of our work. We also poured plaster into marigold gloves and made very interesting hands, some of the fingers pointing very pointedly if you know what I mean. How about getting a local art teacher to let some of your clients play with clay and plaster? Very satisfying.

At the Gallery we examined the very interesting work on show there. It was a plaster cast of the inside of an old Victorian room; rather weird, the fireplace and windows were all there, only sort of reversed, but it was very interesting to feel it.

An interesting idea I saw in RNIB’s residential home in Hove was a wonderful wall-hanging brightening up a very dark corner. It is made up entirely of bobbles, you know the kind the ones kiddies have on their hats. OK, I meant pompoms! This decoration is about 3 by 2 and is done in every size and colour of pompoms. It would be a lovely decoration for a nursery and would keep some of your clients busy for hours.

Do any of you make jewellery? I have recently begun to make earrings and it occurred to me that making papier-mâché beads, painting them and stringing them together might be fun, or collecting broken necklaces during your ’material cull’ and making a bead curtain to keep the flies out of the centre.

Infila Automatic Needle Threader: Many people complain that they have trouble threading needles and it is a problem I share. I use a little plastic machine with two funnels (one for an ordinary needle and one for a large one) in which you stick the needle eye down. Next you lay the thread in a gulley next to the funnel and push a button. Believe it or not, the thread pops through the eye in a twinkling - pure magic!

Well, that’s the end of Tipbits. I could keep going for pages as I expect you have realised, but I want to hear from you. Let us have any items for the next Newsletter very soon. There won’t be such a long time in between this time, I promise.

Some Useful Craft Addresses

General Craft Suppliers

Fred Aldous Ltd, The Handicraft Centre, 37 Lever Street, Manchester M60 1UX. Tel: 061-236 2477.

Dryad, PO Box 38, Northgates, Leicester LE1 9BU.

Pick and Choose, 56 Station Road, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 5RB.

The Busy Bees, PO Box 14, Cambourne, Cornwall TR4 9XD.

Hobbies and Handicrafts, 74 Coggleshall Road, Braintree, Essex. Tei: 0376-550 099.

Maple Textiles, 188-190 Maple Road, Penge, London SE20 8HT. Tel: 081-778 8049.

Ribbons and Velvet Tubing

Offray, Fir tree Place, Chuch Road, Ashford, Middx.

Soft Toys and Macramé

Beckfoot Mill, Prince Street, Dudley Hill, Bradford BD4 6HQ. Tel: 0274-651 065.

Fluffy Fabrics, Unit 11, D2 Trading Estate, Castle Road, Sittingbourne, Kent. Tel: 0795-478 775.

Dainty Toys, Unit 35, Phoenix Road, Crowther Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear.

Knitters and Sewers World, 21 Park Street, Swansea SA1 3DJ.

Oakley Fabrics, 8 May Street, Luton LU1 3QY. Tel: 0582-34733.

Quilting, Appliqué and Patchwork

Crimple Craft, White Lodge, Hookstone Road, Harrogate HG2 8QQ.

Magpie Patchwork, 37 Palfrey Road, Northbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset. Tel: 0202-570 084.

Patchwork Dog and Calico Cat, 21 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1.

Fabrics

J W Coates Ltd, Craft Mill, Foulridge, Colne, Lancs EB8 7NG.

Embroidery Suppliers

Mace & Nairn, 89 Crane Street, Salisbury Wilts.

Mary Allen, Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4BN.

The Bear Essentials, The Farthings, Bowling Alley, Oving, Bucks, HP22 4HD.

Lanham Needlecraft, 13 Ham Lane, Lanham, Maidstone, Kent ME17 2LL.

S N Cooke, 11 Mere Street, Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6QB. Tel: 0789-292 155.

Knitting Yarns, Rowan Yarns, Green Lane Mill, Washpit, Holmefirth, W Yorks HO7 1RW.

Yarn Craft, Lodge Enterprises, 112A Westbourne Grove, London W2 5RU.

Yeoman Yarns, 80 Leicester Road, Kibworth, Leicester LE8 0NP.

Wool Wheels and Weaving, Hop Garden, Sconfrith, Abbergaveney, Gwent, NP7 8UF. Tel: 0600-84607.

Beads and Sequins

Wykraft Products, 8 Tarrant Way, Malton, Northants NN3 1UF.

Kit Craft, PO Box 220, Leicester, LE2 6JS.

Flower Arranging Materials

Sprays and Sprigs, Catrona Kerr, 34 Abercorn Road, Crookfur, Newton Nearns, G77 6NA.

Blank Cards Packaging etc

Craft Creations, Units 2-4 Harpers Yard, Ruskin Road, Tottenham, London N17 8NE. Tel: 081-885 2655.

Impress Workbox Cards, Slough Farm, West Hall, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8RN, Tel: 0986-81422.

Perforated Paper, Inglestone, Milton Place, Fairford, Glos GL7 4HR.

Lace Trimming etc

Home Lace Supplies, 385 Foxhill Road, Carlton, Nottingham NG4 1PZ. Tel. 0602-873353.

Nottingham Trimmings and Lace, Hogarth House, Porchester Road, Nottingham.

Rugmaking

Rag Rug Kits, Cosy Homes, The Stebbings, Bankfield, Homebridge, Huddersfield HD7 1PH.

The Wilton Royal Mill Shop, King Street, Wilton, Nr Salisbury, Wilts SP1 0AY. Tel: 0722-744 183.

Surplus Supplies, Tapestry and Rug Canvas Department, 37 Carr Manor Road, Leeds, LS17 5AV.

Letters

Mrs Daphne Glover of Worcestershire writes:

’I found your newsletter most interesting and I am writing in answer to your request to hear from us in the hope that I may be of help, but also in the hope that you and perhaps your readers and contributors may be able to help me.

I am partially sighted, an albino. I try to teach other visually-handicapped adults at the Worcestershire Association for the Blind and another group in Evasham, but am not teacher trained and can only pass on the skills l learned at school. Basically we are doing basketry, stool seating and I am just starting to try leather kits. ! have to stay one week ahead of my clients!

My problem is lack of knowledge and ability to bring in new ideas for the students. They attend the classes for pleasure, company and often to help re-gain self-esteem. I would like to go on a ’crash’ craft course to learn a few more skills to pass on,

My students do not do mass production and I cannot buy in bulk at the moment. I get a lot of my materials from the social services but would appreciate it if anyone could let me know of any other good outlets where I could buy small amounts."

Craft Editor:- Thanks for your letter, Mrs Glover. I am sure that the clients attending your classes are pleased to have your help. I hope you will feel able to attend the seminars and workshops we hope to hold on a regular basis. I am sure you will find encouragement, advice and practical knowledge that way. There are lots of craft courses nationwide and I am sure your local adult education centre could help.’

Mrs Freda Hassle of Worthing who I met at a craft class in Worthing Society for the Blind writes in enclosing a copy of a pattern of a particularly beautiful baby’s quilt and also said the Society do such a lot of good work to help us and Rose and Ken are marvellous. They have so much patience and nothing is too much trouble. Isn’t that nice to hear? Certainly the work I saw being done there was very good and the painting class is going great guns.

Needle Crafts for the Partially-sighted

Letter Published in ’Workbox’:

Can you help? Denise Smith, Link Officer for the RNIB appeals for volunteers.

Becoming visually impaired late in life means often one has to give up the needle crafts which you have always enjoyed, but with a little help from friends a lot can be achieved; painting, quilting, tapestry and knitting are being turned out by people who thought they would not be able to do any type of craft again.

We are extremely interested in helping societies to find and put into practice exciting crafts which will stretch the imagination of blind and partially-sighted people; for example, with the invaluable help of Kaffe Fassett we have designed and are arranging for visually-impaired people all over the country to make a colourful knitted celebration quilt. This will be exhibited as often as possible to show what can be accomplished and further exciting projects are in the pipeline.

I have visited local groups and some of them are making a great success of different types of craftwork.

Buckinghamshire are turning out attractive colourful tapestries done in Symrna stitch (double cross stitch), each stitch being done in two bright contrasting colours using thick wool on rug canvas. Eastbourne have a class busily quilting, stitching round designs on cushion-size squares of material from a sample book of upholstery materials and backed by wadding. Even people with very little sight seem to be managing the task well using highly contrasting coloured materials.

I find local factories and shops are very good at letting me have seconds and off-cuts which are no use to them and it is amazing what useful craft stuff is thrown away. Upholsterers, packaging companies, garment manufacturers, paper manufacturers and so on are all only too pleased to let us have spare material, provided we collect it promptly.

There are societies for the blind in many areas of the country who would really appreciate any help that could be offered both in sparing time, often only one afternoon a month, and spare materials. Giving your expertise to others is a two-way thing. You have some good laughs with your pupils and get a lot of satisfaction too.

Addresses and ’phone numbers can be obtained either from your ’phone book or from the Voluntary Agencies Link Unit of the RNIB, 224 Great Portland Street, London W1N 6AA or ’phone Denise Smith on 071-388 1266.

The Toys (Safety) Regulations 1989

The Toys (Safety) Regulation 1989 Act applies in most cases to anyone who produces toys for sale. Although the Regulations contain many apparently complicated technicalities, they embody one fundamental concept All toys must be safe. (Safe means that there is no risk or no risk apart from one reduced to a minimum that the toys will cause death or personal injury). A manufacturer of small quantities of toys can to a large extent ensure the safety of those toys by observing the following:

1. Avoid using hard facial features, buttons etc. If such parts are used, anchorages must be secure to withstand a pull of 20.2 lb.

2. Only use clean new materials of known composition.

3. Use only non-flammable materials. Ask your supplier if in doubt.

4. Only use paint which is sold as suitable for use on toys.

5. Avoid making very small articles or having detachable parts which can be swallowed.

6. Ensure that toys in use have no sharp edges, points and that wooden toys present no hazards from splinters or loose knots.

7. Avoid toys that can trap fingers.

8. Avoid use of cords which could strangle (minimum thickness of any cords shall be not less than 1.5 mm; no slip knots).

9. Avoid, if possible, making toys with hair, eg manes which could if not strongly anchored present a choking hazard.

10. Always ask your supplier for confirmation in writing of the suitability of the materials purchased for making toys.

11. Obtain and keep all invoices and labels relating to materials used.

12. If the toy presents any danger to a child under 36 months, then the specific danger must be stated together with a brief indication of that danger, eg not suitable for children under 36 months, could cause choking. NB: all soft toys must be safe for all age groups.

When you are satisfied that you have followed these guidelines, then you must mark the toy with the letters ’CE’ and your name and address. Only then can you supply the toy.

It must be emphasised that since this is a check list, if you have any doubts about the safety of any toy, then it would be advisable to have the toy tested for compliance with the Toys (Safety) Regulations 1989 by a reputable test house. Finally, it would be advisable for you to have regard to ’The Single Market’ toy safety booklet issued by the Department of Trade and Industry. These rules apply only to new toys produced after 1 January 1990 and if subsequently sold as part of a second-hand business.

Books about art on tape

An appeal from Paula Selman, Cambridge Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted

I facilitate the Art to Share programme for the Cambridgeshire Society for the Blind and Partially sighted. The prominent feature of this is a day once a month at Kettles Yard Art Gallery with their excellent Education Officer. The group has asked that we do something on modern painting and feel the need of access to good art books on tape so that we can all bring some input to the sessions.

It is through this request that I have asked our national tape services what titles they have on cassette and found the subject to be lacking for the most part. The RNIB Talking Book Service seem to have nothing on fine art appreciation. TNAUK have no art periodicals on their list. Calibre have three books, none of which are on fine art, and the RNIB Cassette Library have nine titles on tape which are good and seven on pottery and canework.

Of course one understands the reason for this lack. It is only recently that the visual arts have been accepted as an accessible and participatory interest for people with a sight loss. I am not wanting to criticise these excellent tape services who give such courteous service, but I am interested in asking other Art to Share Groups and any reader if they too have felt a need for this gap to be filled and if anyone is interested in supporting a request for the situation to be changed.

Should anyone be interested in taking the idea further please contact Paula on 0223-61347. Maybe people have titles they would like to put forward for recording, in which case please get in touch giving Paula your name, address and telephone number.

Paula Selman, Cambridgeshire Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted, 28 Glisson Road, Cambridge CB1 2HF.

Visual Arts Cassette Titles

Art

Cook, E F: Greek and Roman Art in the British Museum. British Museum Pub 1976. T3488

Cook, R M: Greek Art: its Development, Character and Influence. Pelican 1976. T206

Davis: Art and the Future. Thames and Hudson 1973. TU967.

Forecast: Art of the Eye; An Exhibition on Vision organised by Forecast. 1986. T9422.

Murray, P: The Art of the Renaissance. Thames and Hudson. TU967.

Murray, P: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists. Penguin 1963 (fifth edition). T4200.

Thompson, D V: The Materials and Technique of Modern Painting. Dover pub 1956.

Trevor-Roper, P: The World through Blunted Sight: An Enquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character. Thames and Hudson 1970. T4670.

Whitehall Art Gallery: Whitehall Art Gallery. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Workshops by S Grainger and J Horringan (sound recording of the exhibition guide read by the author).

Pottery and Ceramics

Cameron, E: Potters on Pottery. Evans Brothers 1976. T8959

Clark, G: A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978 - A Study of its Development. E P Dutton 1979. T6262.

Clark, G: Ceramic Art. T6456.

Comment and Review 1882-1977.

Green, D: A Handbook of Pottery and Glazes. Faber and Faber 1978. T6259.

Mikamy, T: The Art of Japanese Ceramics. Weatherhill 1972. T10.

Handicrafts

Chetwynd, H: The Weaver’s Workbook. 1988. T9222.

Calibre

Art

447. Splendid 18th Century Design.

1533. Fine Buildings of York.

2867. Selected Tour of the V & A Museum.

These cassettes can be obtained from Calibre, Aylesbury, Bucks HP22 5XQ, tel: 0296-432 339. ~

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

MAKING A SONG AND DANCE ABOUT IT

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is offering financial support towards creative activities which link with the concerns and interests of rural areas.

Any group or individual living in a rural area anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland can apply.

Guidelines and further information are available from: Fiona Ellis, Assistant Director (Arts), Calouste gulbenkian foundation, 98 portland place, london w1n 4et.

Handicrafts for blind people: a select bibliography

RNIB Reference Library August 1988

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ANTHONY, Gene Holton. Creativity and the visually handicapped: implications for the industrial arts. Education of the Visually Handicapped, December 1969, 1 (4), 122-123.

BARNES, Bertie. Rug making. St Dunstan’s Review No. 640, April 1973, 10-13.

BISBEE, Margaret K. Crafts: making dolls and puppets. Rehabilitation Teacher, January 1975, 7(1), 21-31.

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.... Report of a conference held at the Jewish Blind Society Day Centre... on the regional competition and exhibition of handicrafts, Thursday, 19th November 1970. (Conference Report No. 60.) London: SRAB, 1970.

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VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, A.N. Handicrafts: hand-cut figures. Rehabilitation Teacher, April 1969, 1 (4), 43-44.

... Handicrafts: a scarecrow. Rehabilitation Teacher, August 1969, 1 (8), 41-42.

WHITE, Lesley and LITTLEFAIR, Mary. Art and craft for children with a visual handicap. ANAZATVH Newsletter, 1975, 12(3), 4-34.

WORCESTER COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND. Curriculum conference held at Worcester College for the Blind in Association with the European Regional Committee of ICEVH, April 10th-13th, 1978. Worcester: The College, 1978. v.p.

Includes, inter alia, the following:

Tactile creativity; by S.G.H. Greer. 4pp.

Craft at a school for the blind; by W.J. Pickles. 2pp.

Tactile creativity; by W.J. Pickles. 2pp.

CRAFTS : 010888

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