The showing of Leek and the Story of Silk Twisting (1988) and Geoffrey Staton: Leek Dyeworks Apprentice (2024) about Leek’s textile past We currently offer early-bird tickets for this event,  Wild Silks of Northeast India with Anna-Louise Meynell  and  Art, Artists and Architects with Cathryn Walton  , early bird ticket sales end on 15th August at 12pm. Two films from Leek’s textile past, with an introduction by Ray Johnson MBE, Director of the Staffordshire Film Archive, followed by the première of Geoffrey Staton: Leek Dyeworks Apprentice (2024) by James M Levelle. The bar will be open before the film, and visitors can browse The Exhibition of Natural Fibres in the bar area. Upstairs, the Foxlowe Art Gallery will also be open all day until 7.30pm. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the Leek Textile Week exhibition and perhaps add some stitches to the Sew Your Place community map. 7.30 - 8.30PM Ray Johnson MBE, founder of Staffordshire Film Archive, will present two archive films from Leek’s textile past. Leek and the Story of Silk Twisting This film was made in 1988 to capture on video all departments of the Wellington Silk Mill in Leek, owned by the Whittles family, while it was still in full production. It was researched by historian Paul Anderton and produced with him by Ray Johnson of Staffordshire Film Archive. It is a complete tour of the factory, with Paul engaged in conversation with the Managing Director Mr Whittles throughout. We follow the journey of the silk from its arrival in skeins, the winding of the filament silk onto bobbins so that it can be processed and the combining with other filaments in the various types of silk twisting. Several miles of the fine filament silk could be wound onto a single bobbin. We also go into the dyeing room to see the colouring of the silk and the ‘scrooping’ of the finished silk to bring out its final sheen. The various uses of silk in textiles are found in the firm’s old sales catalogues, discussed and illustrated. This was the last working silk mill in Leek, and it finally closed in 1994 to be converted into apartments. Title Leek and the Story of Silk Twisting Director Ray Johnson/Paul Anderton Release date 1988 Run time 45 minutes Film website www.filmarchive.org.uk Link to trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9A_obMHw Mitchell & Kenyon films, 1901 The Mitchell & Kenyon film company was a pioneer of early commercial motion pictures based in Blackburn, Lancashire, at the start of the 20th century. They were originally best known for minor contributions to early fictional narrative film and their infamous faked newsreels of the Boer War, but the discovery in 1994 of a hoard of film negatives led to restoration of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection, the largest surviving collection of early non-fiction in the world. These are three 1901 M&K films from the personal collection of Ray Johnson, who collaborated with filmmaker Peter Worden in Blackburn when he discovered the films in the former M&K premises. They are “factory gate” continuous single-shot films – the entire company of factory workers exiting the factory and walking toward and past the camera. These films would have been taken in the morning, processed and printed in their mobile photo-lab and then given charged showings in a local hall or town hall that evening – most of them coming along to see themselves on the silver screen (M&K toured the country and this was very profitable). They are animated photographs - this is before the era of narrative films – and each film lasts approximately 1 minute. The silk mills are: Brough Nicholson & Hall, Leek, Wardle & Davenport, Leek and a silk mill in Congleton. Title Mitchell & Kenyon: Silk MIlls Director Mitchell & Kenyon Release date 1901 Photos (Max 3, Max 3MB each). Later Film website www.filmarchive.org.uk 8.35-9.15PM Geoffrey Staton: Leek Dyeworks Apprentice (2024) Former vicar of Cheddleton, Revd Geoffrey Staton, became a dyeworks apprentice in 1955. In this fascinating film, he talks about growing up in Leek, his experience at Clowes & Son, Brook street, and what it was like to work in the booming textile industry of the day. The interview was filmed in 2022 during Fashion Revolution’s Restorying Riverscapes project, supported by the University of Keele. About Director: James is a Nature-centric award-winning filmmaker, adventurer & storyteller - Discovery, Nat Geo, BBC - working in some of the most extreme & remote environments on the planet. He’s an ambassador for all things wild & advocate of Nature-based, adventurous, and fun solutions to the societal and ecological issues of our time. This film is part of Leek Textile Week, a week-long celebration running from 23-29 September 2024. Leek Textile Week will comprise a series of community-focused activities, talks and exhibitions that celebrate the town’s rich textile heritage. We will weave threads of the past into the present, spinning new connections with artisans from India and beyond whose knowledge helped transform the local industry. Leek Textile Week is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, UK Government, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, OUTSIDE Arts and League of Artisans.
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