Bristol Archives - Angie Parker Textiles https://www.angieparkertextiles.com/tag/bristol/ Exquisite handwoven textiles Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:29:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 What Do You Do With An Old Loom? http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2026/03/what-do-you-do-with-an-old-loom/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:29:13 +0000 https://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=3134 The answer is of course, weave with it, because old looms are pretty sturdy things. However, this isn’t just any old loom. It’s is the original Macrogauze loom engineered by one of the 20th Century’s seminal weavers, Peter Collingwood OBE 1922 -2008. Macrogauze Artworks by Peter Collingwood OBE A selection of the fruits of this […]

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]]> Textiles Treasures That Find Me… http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2026/03/textiles-treasures-that-find-me/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:39:37 +0000 https://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=3111 How a remarkable vintage Swedish hand-written book landed in my lap. In the summer of 2024 I became the owner of the late Peter Collingwood’s collection of over 1000 weaving books and periodicals. (This followed the rest of the contents of his Nayland workshop but that’s another story). It’s safe to say that I’m unlikely to run […]

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]]> Were blankets invented in Bristol? http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2022/02/were-blankets-invented-in-bristol/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:25:57 +0000 http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=2212 Short answer. Quite possibly, yes! Longer answer… I came across the story of the 14th Century Flemish wool merchant, Thomas Blanket, inventing blankets when I designed The Bristol Blanket in 2020. My colourful throw, inspired by the painted houses of Totterdown and Cliftonwood was woven by the team at Bristol Weaving Mill-A micro-mill in the […]

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]]> The Bristol Magazine http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2020/09/the-bristol-magazine/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:40:57 +0000 http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=1850 It’s not everyday that I see one of my woven designs on the cover of a Magazine, and it’s it quite fitting that The Bristol Blanket has made it’s editorial debut in this beautiful October edition of The Bristol Magazine. I’m delighted to see the images from Article Studio, the stunning furniture from Timberwoolf, my […]

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]]> Bristol Weaving Mill and Angie Parker Textiles http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2020/08/bristol-weaving-mill-and-angie-parker-textiles/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:41:17 +0000 http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=1581 Did you know that Bristol has a weaving mill? Not only that, but a weaving mill that specialises in niche cloth production and that is a short walk from the City centre, (and conveniently for me, a 20 minutes walk from my studio). I first heard about it when it was still a concept in […]

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]]> The Bristol Blanket http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/2019/09/the-bristol-blanket/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:01:23 +0000 http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/?p=1717 It’s a Bristol thing…… Inspired by Bristol and woven in partnership with Bristol Weaving Mill. In the Spring of 2020, like many people, I reshuffled my life and business to fit with the changing shape of living through a pandemic. Planned teaching and usual selling opportunities had slipped away and I had to find a […]

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