ITS PARTY TIME AT ANNIE SHERBURNE'S SHOP!!!

We want to get friends together to celebrate Rethink Games 2nd Birthday.
Rethink Games Ltd designed the product 'play rethink-the eco design game'. Play Rethink promotes sustainability through creativity, it aims to raise awareness of environmental and social issues and
encourages players to share their ideas. How will you rethink a vacuum cleaner for a community?? Or a toaster that uses renewable energy??

Annie Sherburne was the first to stock the game at her shop. Annie is an award winning Rug Maker. She creates beautiful rugs in innovative designs using Eco-friendly yarns. Her shop has an eco haberdashery with specially sourced eco yarns, each with unique stories to tell, tools, books and embroidery threads. The shop also has chests of drawers brimming with hand made Purefabrication jewellery, and a stunning display of rugs, and eco products .For more info: www.anniesherburne.co.uk or http//backoftheshopgalleryblogspot.com

The details are as follows:

When: Wednesday 2nd December 2009

Location: Annie Sherburne Shop
1:10 Oxo Tower
Bargehouse Street,
South Bank
London
SE1 9PH
(Between Blackfriars Bridge and Waterloo Bridge,
nearest tube stations are Waterloo or St Pauls)
02079221112

Time: 6-9pm

Event details:
We will have Rethink games set up to play so you
can doodle away with others and share
amazing sustainable ideas!

Chests of drawers full of individual jewellery pieces for some Christmas shopping

See a stunning display of Annie latest rugs

Be inspired by Annie Sherburne’s colourful Eco Haberdashery
and learn about Eco Yarns

...and chat with us, catch up on the latest news...
oooh and wine too!

Everybody welcome!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

We are at Country Living Magazine Christmas Fair next week!

At the Business Design Fair, Islington, London

From Wednesday the 11th to Sunday the 15th of November 2009

Annie Sherburne will be exhibiting a sparkling array of Pure Fabrication hand made jewellery, in varying styles, colours and mostly unique pieces, perfect for truley individual christmas gifts!The fair is a wonderful way to get in the christmas spirit!

For more information visit the Country living website:
www.countryliving fair.com

We hope to see you there!

Eco Haberdashery Gallery

YUMMY YARNS!

Introducing our new Eco Haberdashery

We have been busy bees this summer creating a new Eco Haberdashery.

It now has its very own wall where you can choose from an artists palette of yummy yarns, discover beautiful vintage buttons, pick up vintage knitting patterns and flick through our books and much more.....

The haberdashery is like a sweet shop when it comes to discovering new knitting, crochet&embroidery yarns.

Eco Knitting, Crochet & Embroidery yarns
*Organic Hemp: from Bulgaria
*Silk with natural dyes
*Organic Colourgrown cotton
*Rare breed Yarns made in the UK
*Organic wool with natural dyes
*Recycled sari silk
*Recycled sarong yarns from Indonesian women's co-operatives
*Eco Annie recycled London textile yarn
*Fine Linen
*vintage sewing yarns

We have a range of tools:
*Needles, crochet hooks and rug making tools
*Recycled, vintage, bamboo, steel, Bakelite and primitive plastics

We have baskets full of beautiful buttons to rifle through:

Buttons:
*Rematched vintage sets
*Vintage buttons on original cards
*Antique mother of pearl and glass buttons
*Mixed sets for embroidery projects
*Antique buttons:cellulose, Bakelite,keratin and primitive plastics
*Hand made painted buttons

We stock a wide selection of natural dyes in powder form for easy use, and a small stock of the mordant, alum to intensify colour and aid adherence of the colour to the fibre.

We have a small selection of key books on knitting, textile techniques, environmental design, as well as current and back copies of the fabulous textile magazine SELVEDGE and finally a vast archive of knitting patterns, mainly 70s and 80s to inspire!!

Come and discover our dazzling Haberdashery wall for yourselves......

London Design Week

The Oxo building is getting all the shops to open for an evening.

Please come and say hello to us at Annie Sherburne Designs,

Thursday 17th September, 6-8 pm.
1;10 Oxo tower, bargehouse street, SE1 9PH (overlooking the Thames near Blackfriars bridge.) (tel 0207 922 1112)

Come and see our design delights,
be inspired, chat and drink with us in to the evening!!

We are now open 7 days a week from 12 to 6.

Theres a new wall of eco knitting yarns,
a full selection of natural dyes in powder form,
a small preview of new rugs before exhibiting at Origin, Somerset House on the 13th to the 18th of October,and of course, lots of Pure fabrication jewellery.

Hope to see you there!
Love from Annie, Annette, Hannah and Stephanie

***NATURAL DYES***

Annie Sherburne presents

***NATURAL DYES***

The 4th exhibition in a series of 12 informal monthly exhibitions looking at strategies of environmentally friendly textile and fashion design.

Unit 1:10 OXO Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
London SE1 9PH

What do natural dye colours look like? Can you use natural dyes easily it at home? What are the environmental implications for using natural dyes? How do they compare to synthetic chemical dyes? Can natural dyes be used in mass production? Where can you get natural dyes?

Come and see examples of indigo, madder, weld, cochineal, lac, and many other colours, and find out about the natural alchemy of roots, leaves and resins which create a different palette for textile designers to use.

We will be offering a selection of dyes, mordants and seeds to start your own dyers gardens.

A fabulous explanation of natural dying can be found at the following web site too:
http://itdg.org/docs/technical_information_service/dyeing_textiles.pdf



We thoroughly look forward to seeing you at NATURAL DYES!

anniesherburneoxoshop@live.co.uk
http://backoftheshopgallery.blogspot.com/

***TOOLS***

The 3rd exhibition in a series of 12 informal monthly exhibitions looked at strategies of environmentally friendly textile and fashion design.

here is the write up from the exhibition ....

This exhibition will focus on hand tools. The show includes some of the previous months creative recycling exhibition, featuring Kate Langmuir's recycled products, and introducing Patrick Reid’s recycled oriental rugs.

A tool is an extension of the person who uses it. It is the magical means by which we create something that is our own. Skills were, and still are, handed on from generation to generation, in cultures where they are the means of making a living. In the west, children are no longer taught textile skills as a matter of course.

The resurgence of knitting is as much to do with a radical act of befriending others as to do with making a garment. Strangers meet on the circle line at appointed times to knit together, and they become friends.

Here we look at rug tools, crochet hooks, kntting needles, and even the humble darning needle.
On Wednesdays, if you come and buy a rug kit, Annie will show you how to hook your own rugs!

Life has JOY
when
We make something special
We love the experience of making
We love to share our knowledge
We preserve our skills
We hand them on.

A musician cannot make music without an instrument, and without practising.
In many ways, the tools we use to make textiles are like very slow forms of music, and the pieces that we create are played and used in the future, in the same way that Mendlesohn's music is enjoyed 200 years after it was written.

The tools used in the creative process are often forgotten when the work is completed. Whilst working with your favourite tools they begin to become an extension of yourself and enable you to achieve successes in your design process. This exhibition will focus on the importance of tools within the design process.
If you are interested in a rug making class, please contact Annie
on sherburne@btopenworld.com

ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD (felt)

ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD (images)

ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD

On the 2nd of May, Annie and Ellie dressed Matthew Flowers, Director of the internationally wondrous Flowers gallery, as Little Miss sustainable at the Alternative Miss World.
Brainchild of the fabulous sculptor Andrew Logan, people dress in 3 costumes based on the format of Miss World. Daywear swimwear and Evening wear outfits are vehicles for the most extravagant and 'health and safety unconscious' expressions of revelry and joy.
Have a look at our costumes! Swimwear uses non renewable resources or 'technical nutrients' as Michael Braungart and William McDonnough call them, in thier seminal book Cradle to Cradle (remaking the way we make things) This illustrates the need for each of us to have access to potable water resources where-ever we are on the planet.
Evening wear is totally bodegradable and illustrates Michael and Williams commitment to appropriate recycling of out renewable resources, otherwise known as biological nutrients.
Annie's mission is to show that eco design is glamourous and glorious and doesn't have to destroy the planets resources in the process. Little Miss Sustainable is about sustainable happiness.
Matthew told the comperes, Ruby Wax and Andrew Logan, that she wanted a mandate to talk to world leaders about eco design, and that she was little because it is making little differences that matters.

CREATIVE RECYCLING (images)

Clothing by Junky

Oven Gloves and Draft Excluders by Kate Cullinan

Embroidered Drawing by Eleanor Feddon

***CREATIVE RECYCLING***

The 2nd exhibition in a series of 12 informal monthly exhibitions looking at strategies of
environmentally friendly textile and fashion design.

30th of April to the 27th MayWednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6pm

Unit 1:10 OXO Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
London SE1 9PH

You are cordially invited to join us for drinks from 5 to 7 pm on Thursday 30th April to Launch CREATIVE RECYCLING.
This exhibition will focus on finding, creating and designing ways to find new purposes for materials and objects that original purpose and use is defunct.

With recycling being a hot topic within today’s western society, everybody is aware that recycling is an important aspect to sustainable living.

Every object and material has ‘embedded energy.’ This term refers to the all the energy that went into making the materials that are being recycled. By analysing the energy that went into any given product, we can understand the real environmental cost of its manufacture, and maximise the benefit, in creating further uses for otherwise wasted materials.

What do recycled materials offer to a designer- do they inspire the designs, is it financially more accessible to use recycled materials? What is the relationship like between the designers and recycling?

Repurposing is a way of adding value to second hand materials, particularly in the hands of a creative designer and maker, whilst helping to stimulate a new, 'greener' economy.
Come and enjoy this informal exhibition and see how designers are using recycled materials to inspire and create new exciting pieces.

We thoroughly look forward to seeing you at CREATIVE RECYCLING!

anniesherburneoxoshop@live.co.uk

***VALUE***

On show during VALUE will be pieces where the reason that they were made, in terms of time and expertise, bears little resemblance to the amount of money they cost to make per hour that could be legally paid in the UK today.

Pieces in VALUE conform to different environmentally important concepts including:

slow design

loved design

custodianship of skills

virtuosity and artistry

local expertise

skills which have been handed down over generations

fair trade