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On 18th
November 2006, Elizabeth K Wilson gave a lecture
named “Painting
with Silk” to the Montrose Branch of the
Embroiderers Guild of Britain in the Columbus Hall. In her
lecture, she displayed her collection of silk embroideries
purchased from Su
Embroidery Studio (SES). The words below are from the
email she wrote to SES after the lecture.
It has taken
me five days to digest the impact my lecture had. It was
an
unprecedented success. Things happened that I had never
experienced in
all the lectures by others that I have attended, the
moment I had
finished there was massive unprompted applause even before
the vote of
thanks was given.
The lady who gave the vote of thanks said that in all the
lectures she
had attended she had never spent an afternoon so
completely in awe of
the sewings that had been shown and would be delighted to
sit through
the whole thing all over again.
I had to answer so many questions on the sewings and where
they could be
obtained from. I did make a mental note of where some of
the ladies had
come from so you would be able to recognise any orders
that come your
way; they came from Arbroath, Brechin, Edzell,
Laurencekirk, Forfar and
Kirriemuir.
I also had enquires if I could lend out the CD to allow
then to view
all the sewings that are available to allow them to make a
choice but as
I only have one CD this will take rather a long time.
Could you send me
on another CD please?
Here is the big surprise, I have been asked to display all
my sewings at
the City of Brechin Annual Arts Festival next year. This
is a big
festival of all kinds of arts and runs for two weeks and
is the
highlight of the year for the City of Brechin with
visitors coming from
all over Scotland to view the arts on display; I was asked
if I would do
this ten minutes after I had finished my lecture. I do not
yet have the
actual dates but will let you know when it is to take
place as soon as I
know and of course I will make sure that the name of Su
Embroidery is
clearly displayed as much as possible. This is where
another CD would be
invaluable.
I would now like to add to my collection as I will have a
hall to try
and fill and I found that at the lecture the main interest
was in the
Chinese Ladies, there was talk on the European ones but
the main
interest centered on the Chinese ones.
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