{"id":69453,"date":"2020-06-26T04:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=69453"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:12:17","slug":"goldwork-book-earns-a-bronze-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/goldwork-book-earns-a-bronze-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldwork book earns a bronze medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INVERMAY\u2019S Alison Cole has won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Awards in New York, for her fifth self-published book, <em>The Goldwork Masterclass: Adventures in Metal Thread Embroidery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Entered into the Home &amp; Garden category, the book was published in August of 2019 and is essentially a written version of a two-year Embroiderers Guild masterclass Cole taught to beginners upwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI specialise in goldwork from around the world. I created the book so the course could reach more people than what it can face-to-face,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe style I teach is mostly European. Most of the threads that I use are English, some are Japanese, French and German. This book touches on French, Turkish, and Indian styles&#8230; a little bit of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole is grateful for the award at a time of broader negativity.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69455\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/IMG-0245-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have something positive to post on Facebook and shout from the rooftops. It\u2019s exciting and gets my name out there a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been nice to win a gold medal for a goldwork book, but I\u2019m very happy with a bronze,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Metal thread embroidery has gained momentum throughout Cole\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started 20 years ago, there was virtually nobody teaching it, and the only people who did it were doing church vestments, restorations, or professionally doing military work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard to get threads, but these days, I\u2019m out here importing them, bringing them out and making it easy for people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INVERMAY\u2019S Alison Cole has won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Awards in New York, for her fifth self-published book, The Goldwork Masterclass: Adventures in Metal Thread Embroidery. 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