January 2017

Man of the cloth – how a Lancashire artist is going back to his roots

IN the 1970s the world of textiles was dominated by women, but that didn’t stop Michael Brennand-Wood pursuing his passion - first at Bolton College of Art, then in Manchester. After all he’d been taught to sew and knit by his grandmother who worked in one of the mills in Summerseat, near Bury. Now, more than six decades later, Michael – who is one of the country’s top textile artists with work in...

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