Over the years the members of the Wey Valley Workshop have worked together and produced some remarkable and fabulous panels/hangings.  Often to hang at our Exhibitions.

In 1992 we made a special waistcoat for Brian Worth who had been the caretaker looking after all our needs at the Adult Education Center in Godalming during our City & Guilds years.

2008 Time Line Board

Our latest project: the Time Line Boards created by the members of the Wey Valley Workshop for our Exhibition at the Guildford House Gallery in May 2008 a historic venue.  Members were asked to bring in samples of past work done for their C & G courses of historical interest or techniques.  So many were brought in that the best were selected and mounted on boards provided by the Gallery.  These were displayed downstairs in he Garden room and  upstairs in the Powell room.  

The boards were of a really very fine  collection of all sorts of techniques throughout the ages. From the Bayeux Tapestry, through to the Modern Day & the Ideas & Innovations Boards.

     2006  Rhythms of Light

By 2005 we had an intake of new members & because there had been no exhibition in 2005 we felt it was time to do another group panel.  One of our members had connections with the Royal Surrey County Hospital and obtained a commission for the Wey Valley Workshop to produce a hanging now hanging in Outpatients Clinic I.  These clinics are used by anxious people from all walks of life, religions and age groups and in particular children, who may not know anything about art. 
The design had been researched in depth with the focus on colour & texture; each member was allowed to chose a two toned block of canvas and the brief was the embroidery should be an embellishment  and a match  of each of the given colour boards. We had to work within certain parameters & with the adjacent boards in mind to be effective as a whole. Nonetheless we had a lot of freedom resulting in a exciting &  sensational panel for all the outpatients to enjoy.

   2001 African Hanging

Great interest had been shown by many of our members in African inspired designs after African study day early in 2000 to which books and African artifacts had been brought for sharing. We were all so inspired by the strong and vibrant patterns that it was felt a exciting group  hanging  could be the result.

A4 hessian blocks where issued to all members  & we were  encouraged to work directly  or appliqué something onto these.  A great variety   of techniques were used including printing ,bleaching, stitching, tasseling beading &  knotting resulted in a hanging of 8 separate pieces all  joined together according to colour, shape and the strength of design.

It has been on view for two of our  exhibitions to date.

1993    Ethnic Hanging

This panel was based & inspired by the colours of a member’s textile collection of ethnic designs.
Everyone received a piece of silk noile & 2 skeins of threads which had been dyed with natural dyes in  madder, pink & beige. Every member was allowed the addition of extra threads in individual choices of supplementary colours and ethnic designs; the whole came together very successfully.

1989    Childhood Panel

This Panel was  created for the “Memories” Exhibition held at the Grange in Rottingdean, Sussex. The Grange houses part of Brighton Museum important toy collection.

The panel incorporated a patchwork of 24 background “boxes” of 3 pieces giving a 3 dimensional appearance.  These were stitched together by one of the members. Each participating member was allowed to add their chosen design.
The brief was to use any textile media in representing a toy. Either real or imagined  memories of childhood. it could be anything like dolls, teddy bears, dressing up clothes, games & books.

1985 Garden Panel

The first of our Panels was the created to celebrate the centenary of Guildford’s Castle Garden.
Each member was given a block to design which were then turned. Workshop with Jean Draper workshop “designing with Flowers” had been the starting point.