Valerie Campbell-Harding Explained

Valerie Campbell-Harding
Birth Name:Valerie Anne Campbell
Birth Date:May 3, 1932
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Known For:Textile artist and designer, writer

Valerie Anne Campbell-Harding (May 3, 1932 – October 5, 2006) was an experimental textile art designer and author of 24 books.[1]

Biography

She was born in Canada on May 3, 1932 and died in England on October 5, 2006. She founded the Computer Textile Design Group in 1996,[2] a group whose focus was the application of computer technologies to textiles. Campbell-Harding was also editor and frequent contributor to the Computer Textile Design Group magazine Design IT. Valerie Campbell-Harding taught City & Guilds Embroidery, Decorated Textiles and Machine Embroidery and weekend courses and workshops on embroidery, beading, digital photography and computer design for textiles all over the world (in particular Britain, America and Australia) between 1980 and her death. She was the editor of The World of Embroidery, the author or co-author of more than twenty books on embroidery, design and beading (often with Maggie Grey, Pamela Watts or Jane Lemon) and made a video on bead embroidery with Pam Watts.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Valerie Campbell-Harding.
  2. http://www.ctdg.co.uk/mag_archive/nl59/val_view.htm/