Source: CCTV.com
10-30-2007 10:31
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The Knitting and Stitching Show at London's Alexandra Palace is the largest of its kind in Europe. Throughout the three day event, visitors of all ages and backgrounds can experience "cutting edge" styles, techniques and products of knitting and stitching.
Andrew Salmon, The Knitting and Stitching Show, said, "The whole business has changed enormously over the last twenty years because quite simply, women are empowered now to use their income to do things that fundamentally, they enjoy and as a consequence, stitch or knit has become an extension of people's creativity and has become an art form in its own right and so many different things like that and this exhibition has always represented that. As a consequence, the rationale for the show is that this is a celebration. It's the opportunity for lacemakers to get together with knitters, to get together with embroiderers, to get together with beadworkers to get together with chabory artists and that's one of the things that we find particularly exciting."
The Royal School of Needlework is one of the exhibitors at this year's show. Unique in its field for traditional English hand embroidery, the school has accumulated valuable expertise over one hundred and thirty years. Today, the school takes students from all over the world to participate in its apprenticeship courses.
The show attracts international exhibitors and visitors. Betts Vidal is based in San Francisco Bay in the US, where she sells patterns and cloth doll kits.
With visitor numbers growing by some ten per cent every year, and new, innovative products and techniques being developed all the time, the Knitting and Stitching show seems to have it all sewn up.
Editor:Liu Fang
