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Company Name: Knitting & Crochet Guild Ltd Incorporated: 19.05.2005 Registered Office: 108 Park Lane Kidderminster Worcestershire DY11 6TB Company No: 05457452 Memorandum of Association (PDF) Reg. Charity No: 01113468 |
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The Home of Hand- and Machine-Knitting and Crochet
– Education, Innovation, Preservation
Next Guild Open Day – Saturday 31 May
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Guild 30th AGM and Convention: 4-6 July 2008
Bookings must be received by 6 June latest!
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Special 'Stitch & Creative Crafts Show' Offers to Guild members
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Guild Library working days
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Something to swap … buy, sell, barter or just give away?
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K&CG Members' Yahoo Group
Want to have more contact with K&CG members? Want to have a say in how your Guild develops? Well you can by joining the K&CG online Yahoo Group – just email Yvonne Davies for details, quoting your name, K&CG membership number and annual subscription renewal date.
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About the Guild
Welcome to the Knitting & Crochet Guild
We were formed to promote and encourage the crafts of hand-knitting, machine-knitting and crochet.
Background and Activities
The Knitting & Crochet Guild is a registered national educational charity supported by subscriptions and donations and administered by volunteers. It was established in 1978 to preserve and nurture the skills of knitting and crochet and to conserve what is a major part of our cultural and craft heritage.
Now entering its 29th year, the Guild has accumulated an important and rapidly-growing Collection of garments, samples, domestic knitting machines, yarns, tools and ephemera related to knitting and crochet over the last 200 years, as well as setting up a well-stocked Library of books, periodicals and patterns.
The Guild has also been successful in mounting exhibitions and running courses and workshops as part of an expanding education programme. It has been active in producing commercial publications, establishing a book and Pattern Search Service and HelpLine, publishing a substantial quarterly journal (SlipKnot), setting up regional groups, providing displays and clinics at national yarn fairs, selling Heritage Kits and much more.
Aims and Objectives
The Guild aims to promote the crafts of knitting and crochet by raising public awareness of these traditional skills and drawing attention to their usefulness, versatility and beauty. There is also a need to promote a feeling of fellowship amongst those still practising these crafts, including ethnic groups with their own knitting and crocheting traditions, and to encourage people to share their common heritage.
The Next Step
The next step in the expansion of Guild activities is a major one. A Museum / Education Centre needs to be established in large safe and secure premises to allow the now large Collection and separate Library (currently housed in temporary facilities) to be used to their full potential.