About us...
Jayne & Mandy have been followers of vintage fashion & textiles for years now and in 2011 decided to relaunch the Newcastle Vintage Fashion Fair at the glamourous Royal Station Hotel. Fed up of traveling further afield in the name of Vintage. The pair, first met whist teaching Textiles & Surface Design at Newcastle College, and have been firm friends ever since, sourcing vintage trims, lace and quilts to use in their own work.
All about Jayne:
From a very young age I have been a hoarder of sorts, influenced by my fathers profession as a goldsmith, attracted to his junk drawers filled with old broken costume jewellery and watch parts. Following my fashion degree at Northumbria University, I trained as a freelance textile designer, working for a London based textile agent.
My interest in vintage textiles first became an obsession during a 3 month work placement with fashion designer, Jessica Odgen, the pioneer of of salvage fashion. Ever since I have been inspired by old distressed fabrics and collected vintage trims, linen and lace to rework and use in combination with my own hand screen printed, stitched or manipulated garment fronts.
I work from my home grown print studio, which was formally an old blacksmiths, based in Consett, County Durham and have sold designs nationally and internationally in London, Paris, LA, New York, Australia and Japan, to the likes of Topshop, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie and Fitch, Coast and Monsoon.
After teaching at Newcastle College as course lecturer across Fashion, Textiles & Surface Design for 9yrs, I have recently left teaching to focus on my freelance & family life.
My key influences?...Vintage costume and antique jewellery, Flea markets in Paris & Brussels, Romany gypsy caravans, Early vintage fashion, Lace, 1920's underwear, Junk, Auctions houses, Antique french textiles, Fabric manipulation, The Victorian & Albert Museum, and most of all my husband and our two boys.
All about Mandy:
I trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an attic studio in a converted manse in rural Northumberland. I run textile and printmaking workshops, work in a hospital arts project and make work to sell from my studio and for exhibition.
My work is based on collage techniques whether patching and piecing together fabrics or using paper ephemera and layering in my printmaking. I am drawn to pieces of cloth that have a patina and try to source vintage fabrics and quilts to recycle into my own work, particularly those which show a history of use, and evidence of a previous female needlework. I combine these with fabrics which I already have or which are given to me. I don't want to buy new anymore and pursue what I call a thread and thrift vision. I primarily hand sew combining piecing and applique with stitch, and collaging in found objects and small precious bits of embroidery.
I work in sketchbooks too, sampling and drawing and exploring personal obsessions. For many years I have researched, photographed and drawn details from local Victorian cemeteries which has resulted in two solo exhibitions which explore ideas about memory, female experience and identity and place. In 'Memento Mori' I was able to explore digital media to express my ideas and in 'Remember Me' I was able to create site specific work for a listed church.
My key influences?...Boro Textiles, antique patchwork and appliqued quilts, Gees Bend, Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois,Folk Art, Victorian Way of Death, Bowes Museum, Willa Cather, remembered landscapes, Alice Pattullo, junk shopping, traditional textile techniques
All about Jayne:
From a very young age I have been a hoarder of sorts, influenced by my fathers profession as a goldsmith, attracted to his junk drawers filled with old broken costume jewellery and watch parts. Following my fashion degree at Northumbria University, I trained as a freelance textile designer, working for a London based textile agent.
My interest in vintage textiles first became an obsession during a 3 month work placement with fashion designer, Jessica Odgen, the pioneer of of salvage fashion. Ever since I have been inspired by old distressed fabrics and collected vintage trims, linen and lace to rework and use in combination with my own hand screen printed, stitched or manipulated garment fronts.
I work from my home grown print studio, which was formally an old blacksmiths, based in Consett, County Durham and have sold designs nationally and internationally in London, Paris, LA, New York, Australia and Japan, to the likes of Topshop, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie and Fitch, Coast and Monsoon.
After teaching at Newcastle College as course lecturer across Fashion, Textiles & Surface Design for 9yrs, I have recently left teaching to focus on my freelance & family life.
My key influences?...Vintage costume and antique jewellery, Flea markets in Paris & Brussels, Romany gypsy caravans, Early vintage fashion, Lace, 1920's underwear, Junk, Auctions houses, Antique french textiles, Fabric manipulation, The Victorian & Albert Museum, and most of all my husband and our two boys.
All about Mandy:
I trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an attic studio in a converted manse in rural Northumberland. I run textile and printmaking workshops, work in a hospital arts project and make work to sell from my studio and for exhibition.
My work is based on collage techniques whether patching and piecing together fabrics or using paper ephemera and layering in my printmaking. I am drawn to pieces of cloth that have a patina and try to source vintage fabrics and quilts to recycle into my own work, particularly those which show a history of use, and evidence of a previous female needlework. I combine these with fabrics which I already have or which are given to me. I don't want to buy new anymore and pursue what I call a thread and thrift vision. I primarily hand sew combining piecing and applique with stitch, and collaging in found objects and small precious bits of embroidery.
I work in sketchbooks too, sampling and drawing and exploring personal obsessions. For many years I have researched, photographed and drawn details from local Victorian cemeteries which has resulted in two solo exhibitions which explore ideas about memory, female experience and identity and place. In 'Memento Mori' I was able to explore digital media to express my ideas and in 'Remember Me' I was able to create site specific work for a listed church.
My key influences?...Boro Textiles, antique patchwork and appliqued quilts, Gees Bend, Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois,Folk Art, Victorian Way of Death, Bowes Museum, Willa Cather, remembered landscapes, Alice Pattullo, junk shopping, traditional textile techniques
