Craft month at The Braid

The eighth annual celebration of craft, co-ordinated by Craft NI is the largest ever, with more than 100 events taking place throughout Northern Ireland showing how craft’s influence touches on all aspects of life including politics, the environment, business, cultural tourism and education.

In Ballymena, the exhibition at the Braid will celebrate patchwork quilts from the past and present from the collection of Mid Antrim Museum and from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, displayed together for the first time along with the work of contemporary quilt-makers.

In addition the morning August 9 will see a curator tour with Valerie Wilson, Curator of Textiles at National Museums Northern Ireland and Nicola Gates from Mid Ulster Museum. In the afternoon there will be a talk and ideas workshop from established textile artist Jane Lloyd.