Textillia in the mineral room at Cliffe Castle

Textillia meet once a month at Cliffe Castle , we spent a lovely day there with Claire Ackroyd who is the curator. She is launching a new educational programe for schools called The Art and Science of Noticing and we were trying it out for her. It was great fun sitting and drawing and getting back to basics looking at objects through thebeyes of a child . We even made up stories about each object using the tools that Claire gave us