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Site updated 4 Dec 2011 Order line : 07502 037 242  email : enquiries@racheljohn.co.uk 

BIG TOP NEWS 

 

It's gorgeous colour, funky fibre, very strong and totally eco. We love Hoopla Yarn so much we are now distributors of it in the UK and parts of Europe.

Check out hooplayarn.com for this unique material for all textiles. Trade and retail enquiries welcome.

 

Come see us LIVE at .....

10-11 Nov 2011 Woburn Craft Fair - Living Heritage

All Extreme Textiles products - including kits and tools. 

A superb gallery of '1st in the World' examples of Extreme Textiles by Rachel and Carmen John. Plenty of space for teaching and demonstrating.

Woburn Safari Park, Woburn Park, Beds MK17 9QN

http://www.craft-show.co.uk/craftshows

 

See us LIVE on Create and Craft TV

We've been having fun showing you the real Extreme Knitting, Extreme Crochet and Extreme Tunisian Crochet by Rachel and Carmen John

 

We have loads of kits and products on the Create and Craft Website - click here to view 

                 

 

Extreme Knitting Needles   Extreme Crochet Hooks    Extreme Tunisian Crochet  Hooks

1 kg, 2kg and 3.5kg yarn kits, Fur Coat Kits, Handbag Kits, Hoopla Yarn .......

 

Shows coming soon on Freeview and Sky:

(don't forget to regularly check on Create and Crafts schedule for repeats of live recordings)

 

More to follow right up until Christmas - 

 

A recent Oasis commission - for their new Argyll Street store in London. An Extreme Knitted logo - check it out here

 

  

 

And see us on YouTube chatting live on The Alan Titchmarsh ITV

06 Oct 2011

 

 

 

 

         We support the Campaign for Wool

Extreme Knitted cover for the O in Choose Wool 

- a giant display touring the world 

showing innovation in use of British Wool -

first seen at Grand Designs in London

(April - May 2011)

 

 

Rachel John, inventor and innovator of Extreme Textiles, shows a gallery of  'First in the World' museum piece examples of this wonderfully fast method of hand crafting.

 

Big tools and many and multi strands of yarn used simultaneously to make extraordinary, and often luxurious, contempor

 

ary and traditional home furnishings - rugs, throws, curtains, whatever. Made in hours rather than weeks and months.

 

Also all the Extreme Textiles tools, patterns and some fantastic Extreme Yarn packs for sale - all of which are designed and made by Rachel and her daughter Carmen-Nina.

 

We are in the workshop making new things for you as we speak .......

 

 

 

 

What have Paris, Couture, Christmas and Extreme Knitting got in common?

Stella McCartney and

des Sapins de Noël des Créateurs

 

A Very Happy Extreme Knitted Christmas!!!!!

 

Awesome new Extreme Textiles coming in 2012

 

Already known as a designer's designer - Rachel is introducing futher shocking new textiles concepts and tools in 2012.

 

Are you ready to be stunned again into yet more feverish textiles creativity.

It's fast (of course), it's extraordinary, it's beautiful and anyone can do it. And it is the first time ever in the history and culture of textiles. Rachel has done it AGAIN - pure invention and innovation in textiles tools and techniques.

 

We are already nearly fully booked in 2012 for an amazing new series of shows and exhibitions to bring you Rachels brilliant new tools now in secret production.

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

Rachel John 

A Blue Skies Thinker 

 

Rachel John is the orignator of the Extreme Textiles products including Extreme Knitting, Extreme Crochet and Extreme Tunisian Crochet. Her influences in yarn and wood craft in the last 5 years have spread like wild fire becoming a worldwide influence in much textiles practice from UK to Australia, across the USA, Asia, the Easterns and Europe.

 

Already many designers, manufacturers and home crafters are taking up the inspiration of Rachel's work to educate, enthuse and to be creative.

 

Rachel is the original thinker and inspiration behind all Extreme and Big Knit projects seen today. For instance: the knitted boat and The Big Knit Project with Ingrid Wagner. Ingrid came to our workshops, she'd never seen anything like it, and was so inspired she still feels the need to seek creative ideas from Rachel - both in words and deeds. The Big Stitch Book by Becca Smith - again Becca still seeks inspiration from Rachel's work online.

 

In the next year you will see more of Extreme/Big Knit projects across the globe.

 

And remember - if you want to know what is the next thing in this rather extraordinary new thinking - then watch these pages on a regular basis and get  inspired!

 

Rachel is THE original thinker of

Extreme Textiles.

 

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ALL TOOLS FOR SALE ARE HANDMADE AND FINISHED BY RACHEL AND CARMEN JOHN IN OUR OWN WORKSHOPS

- we invent, we design, we make

 

 

See the Extreme Textiles videos on

 

 YouTube - 280,000 hits and counting!

 

 1000 Strand Extreme Knitting

 

Extreme Knitting on the Catwalk at the NEC Sewing for Pleasure 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 Rachel on the 1st in the world example of a carpet rug made using 150 strand Extreme Knitting - Moonlit Rainbow colourway is based on a rainbow seen under moonlight as opposed to sunlight - a natural phenomena not often seen as it occurs under bright moonlight when raining and when most people sleep.

 

One of a collection of experimental - and entirely functional - combined art and craft pieces made during a 5 year period of creative research and personal development. During the years of 2000 to 2005 Rachel first came up with the idea for Extreme Textiles. The key to this thinking is the use of up to a 1000 strands of different fibre to create very thick mixed fibre yarns and ropes.