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When I weave I am inspired by the natural world and places that bring me feelings of stillness and harmony.

Ali Lou Field - Tapestry
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I am a tapestry weaver and dyer, weaving a sense of place...

Member of The British Tapestry Group and the West Surrey Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers Each piece is infused with the essence of these places and emotions. I love using natural yarns, such as wool, silk, cotton, recycled fabric strips and alpaca. I use a mix of moder

n and traditional weaving techniques, and hand-dye yarn to create delicious tonal variations for the landscapes. I hope my work makes your heart sing and nourishes your soul, as it does mine…

28/08/2026

It was so interesting weaving with a group from Refugees Welcome Hounslow. We translated a handful of weaving terms to the Dari and Pashto languages (with help of our lovely interpreter and a lady who was a rug weaver and embroiderer back in Afghanistan), and chatted about their homeland to inspire some poems to display alongside their weavings.

01/08/2026

Fabulous evening at the Private View for The Horton Summer Exhibition - with so many interesting and different responses to the theme ‘Transformation’
- make sure to read all the accompanying labels!

Wonderful to be in such good company, and with some other very lovely textiles too...

1) Limestone by me!
2) Awaiting Exile by Kate Norman Kate Norman
3) Bag for the Afterlife by Pamela Dutton
4) Scarring by Michelle Thompson-Batley
5) Threads of an old life by Sam Ellis
6) Spring Blossoms by Janet Clegg
7) Butterfly Brain by Susie Bones

Thank you for included me The Horton Arts Centre!

📍 The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, Epsom, KT19 8NP
📅 1st to 25th August
Free entry
thehortonepsom.org

27/07/2026

It was such a treat to visit the British Tapestry Group’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Picking up the Thread: The Past, Present and Future of Tapestry at it’s final venue at the Morley Gallery in London.

It was amazing to see such diverse approaches to tapestry weaving, and really wonderful to chat to lots of very, very talented tapestry artists!

1) Hunting Tigers and Woolly Bears by Lucy Sugden Lucy Sugden • woven art

2) A Balancing Act by Gardner Muirhead Gardner Muirhead Artist

3) The Garden of Penelope Questa - by John Brennan John Brennan

4) Shahi Qila (Royal Fort) by Ayesha Barlas

5) Unravelling by Kate Gill

6) Day Dream by Yoshiko Nakano Yoshi tapestry weaver in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

7) Jacaranda Wedding by Ayesha Barlas

8) Standing Stones by Clare Coyle Clare Coyle

British Tapestry Group Morley Gallery

09/07/2026

Very excited that ‘Limestone’ has been selected for this year’s Summer Exhibition at The Horton, Epsom!

Thank you very much The Horton Arts Centre - looks like it will be a fabulous exhibition!

📍 The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, Epsom, KT19 8NP
📅 1st to 25th August
Free entry
thehortonepsom.org

17/06/2026

Really looking forward to the Surrey Country Craft & Food Show!

📍Loseley Park, Guildford, GU3 1HS
📆 Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June
⏰ 10am - 5pm

So many things to do all in one place, in some hopefully glorious weather!
.. and I will be bringing the 3 new North Coast of Scotland tapestries: Sango Bay, Durness; Ardvreck Castle, Loch Assynt; and Beinn Eighe, Torridon.

Country Craft Shows

30/05/2026

I am very happy to be showing at the Etsy Guildford Summer Market in Tunsgate Quarter, Guildford on Sunday 7th June, 10am - 5pm with lots of other very lovely artists and makers...
.. and I will be bringing 3 new tapestries from my latest trip to the North Coast of Scotland:

- Sango Bay, Durness,
- Ardvreck Castle, Loch Assynt and
- Beinn Eighe, Torridon

15/05/2026

What's on my loom... weaving Sango Bay at Sango Bay, our home for a couple of nights on the north west coast of Scotland!

❤️

15/03/2026

Weaving workshop at Art & Grind, 165 High Street, Guildford, GU1 3AJ

10am - midday, Wednesday 18th March

Book your place at www.artandgrind.as.me, see you there!

06/03/2026

Another limestone cliff, this time the beautiful 70m high gently curving Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales.

Whilst I visited quite a number of times when I was a student in Leeds, and then as a caver in the 1980's, I took the photos for this tapestry on a lovely return visit with my grown-up son last summer - a very special place!

21/02/2026

I popped in to the fabulous Art & Grind yesterday - my favourite place for a cuppa in Guildford!

I dropped in a whole bunch of greetings cards, coaster cards and 3 little tapestries which are now on sale there...
..and also an example of what you could weave at my upcoming Weaving Workshop in March!

Book your place at www.artandgrind.as.me, and hopefully see some of you there!

Weaving Workshop

18th March
10am - midday
£35 per person including all materials
at Art & Grind
165 High Street, Guildford, GU1 3AJ

You will learn weaving techniques such as plain weave, switching colours and making shapes to make a little textured weaving that you can either hang from a dowel or mount in a frame. Beginners are very welcome, and all weaving materials will be provided at the workshop.

The workshop includes:

• A lovely selection of yarns in a variety of colours and textures
• A 22cm x 14cm cardboard loom (prepared with vertical ‘warp’ strings, all ready to weave), weaving needle and dowel to hang your weaving on
• Instruction sheets showing how to weave; finish your weaving and hang it from a dowel; frame a weaving; and how to setup the loom to use again

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Guildford
GU237BU

Website

http://www.rosewoodandmoss.co.uk/

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