Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts accredited by Middlesex University

Last day today. Its been an amazing experience and have had good comments. I think our show looks great and we all passed. Last chance to see it today, so do come along.

Some of my tailors came to the opening and we had a performance of the operatic soundtrack to my animation. It was quite a night.

Now to move onto turning my work into book form.

Well I managed to finally post that blog, first experience of doing this.

Am in the process of practising hanging my work in the communal hallway of our building. Hope nobody nicks it while its out there. Just waiting for husband to get back from India tonight to give his advice. I have spent 6 years carting all my work around with me from country to country. This final panel has been to Tibet, India, Nepal, Australia and back here, all the time terrified that I would lose my luggage. It was partly stitched while I was working in Tibet. Sitting in bed trying to keep warm and sewing away while listening to the Archers on the internet. Heavens knows what the Chinese censors thought of that.

I now need to invite all the tailors that I have interviewed, well the London ones anyway. Shame that the Mumbai tailors from "Smart and Hollywood" can't come. Also the Dalai Lama's tailor, wonder what he would think of my work.

Am hoping that the opera singer who sang the soundtrack for my film can sing at the private view.

Back to finishing touches

Its been six years but am finally getting close. We have less than 2 weeks to go. There are only 5 of us graduating this year so will be a nice intimate show.

I am working on the theme of tailors. Was a theatrical tailor for years before moving to Nepal. I have made an embroidered graphic novel of interviews with tailors around the world. Have also made an embroidered animation, its an illustration of an essay from 1812 by Charles Lamb called "On the Melancholy of Tailors" It will run as a loop on a screen during the the exhibition. (still to sort out all the technical problems)