'Becoming a social media personality wasn’t textile artist Anne Brooke’s intention. It was an accidental destination she arrived at through unique circumstances'
“I try to upcycle as much as possible and when my mum passed away I found she had the dress making patterns from the clothes she had made us when we were little so I started to include them in my work. One thing that has under-pinned my whole work has been journeys and memories.” She connects with her online crafting community from the comfort of her studio and sewing room in the family home she shares with Robert and their daughters Harriett and Neve.
Textile artist and tutor Anne Brooke who set up her company Hannemade photographed for The Yorkshire Post Magazine by Tony Johnson. From her garden studio at her home in Brighouse she produces vintage stitched postcards, vintage fabric embroidery and collage gardens as well as teaching workshops. “The ‘whole’ represents me, the whole person, but I realised the physical ‘hole’ is my Mum because she isn’t here any more and that is the inspiration for the hoop series. It is stitched with all my colours and I have been teaching myself darning – the idea with darning is what you do if you have a hole you repair it. I wouldn’t be doing this if my Mum hadn’t encouraged me.”
Before launching her online presence through her sewing channel and her sewing and habidashery website - H-Anne-Made and H-Anne-adashery – a play on her name and her passion for handmaking – she showcased her work at events including the annual ‘Art in the Pen,’ ‘Crafts in the Pen’ and Yarndale at Skipton Auction Mart and Saltaire Arts Trail. She also participated in the first Calderdale Open Arts Exhibition, and the British Craft and Trade Fair in Harrogate.
Framed postcards from the 1940s she sourced from charity shops and transformed with artistic hand stitching and embellishments are among the pieces of beautiful hand-made objects of art displayed around the walls of the purpose-built craft room dominating the outside space of her Brighouse home. Floral printed table cloths decorate the wooden tables arranged around this tranquil creative space where Anne can let her creative flair truly flow.
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