Pocket Book 3rd July

Apologies for the lack of Pocket Book last week - having spent last Wednesday and Thursday in London, I needed the weekend to cool down and regroup! Here's a few tasty bits for the weekend. Enjoy ...

To Make

The National Festival of Making, the national celebration of making and manufacturing from the kitchen table to the factory floor, returns to Blackburn town centre on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th July for a family-friendly weekend packed with exhibitions, live performances, hands-on workshops, film screenings, makers markets, street food and lots more. You do not need a ticket to visit the Festival and most of the activities are completely free, including all performances, exhibitions, film screenings and most workshops and talks. Please see the website for more details.

To Dress

“For me, dress designing is not a profession but an art.” – Elsa Schiaparelli

On until the 8th November at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry. For more information and tickets please click HERE.

To Bayeux

I still remember visiting the Bayeux Tapestry as a schoolgirl and being blown away by the immense scale of the tapestry. Later this year, for the first time since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to England.

Following a historic agreement with France, the 70-metre-long tapestry, depicting events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will be loaned to the British Museum from September 2026 to July 2027.

This monumental embroidery tells the dramatic story of a moment that changed England forever. No year in the country’s history is more famous than 1066. It was the last time England was successfully invaded, and it is the year from which the modern monarchy dates itself. And there is no other object that is as instantly recognisable, as studied in schools and as copied by artists as the Bayeux Tapestry.

Tickets for this year have sold out but you can find information on how to book tickets on the British Museum website HERE.

As always, hope you find something interesting or useful here. Please let me know if you have any events, exhibitions or interesting artists and makers to share. Have a good weekend, Charlotte.