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Julia Desch

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Julia uses hand dyed colour, texture and visual rhythm to combine her poetry with her textiles, abstract form with natural inspiration, her Wensleydale fibre and sensory wheels with touch. Julia is passionate about sharing skills and enabling others to create their own fibre journeys. She is also committed to sharing the concept of Sensory Wheels in schools, so that the fundamental importance of pleasurable touch in a screen led world can be explored by those who need its irreplaceable benefits most of all.

Julia is a third generation Applied Artist and Designer/Maker of Handknits and Interior items. For her slow, ethical Art means creating a few special items each year in her Wensleydale Fibre, many held in private collections at home and abroad.

As a prominent member of the Pure Arts Group and an invited British Wool Artisan, inspiring others to know and experience Wensleydale is central to her ethos as in the Sensory Wheels Schools Project.

Equally connected to nature through her illustrated poetry, the disciplines all intertwine for Julia, drawing deep responses in others to share her vision in their own personal way.

Invited to become a British Wool Artisan, Julia is also a member of the International Feltmakers Association, The Society of Designer Craftsmen and the East Sussex Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.