Valerie Campbell-Harding

Who was Valerie Campbell-Harding?

Valerie Campbell-Harding was an experimental textile art designer and author of 24 books. She was born in Canada on the 3rd of May 1932 and died in England on the 5th of October 2006. She founded the Computer Textile Design Group in 1996, a group whose focus was the application of computer technologies to textiles. Campbell-Harding was also editor and frequent contributor to the Computer Textile Design Group magazine Design IT. Valerie Campbell-Harding taught City & Guilds Embroidery, Decorated Textiles and Machine Embroidery and weekend courses and workshops on embroidery, beading, digital photography and computer design for textiles all over the world between 1980 and her death. She was the Editor of The World of Embroidery, the author or co-author of more than twenty books on embroidery, design and beading and made a video on bead embroidery with Pam Watts.

Training

⁕Chippenham Technical College.

⁕Goldsmith's Art College.

⁕Loughborough Art College.

⁕Nottingham University.

⁕Open College of the Arts/Creative Digital Arts.

⁕Open College of the Arts/The Art of Photography.