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Creating beautiful sparkling knickers for the Queen, based on the book 'The Queens Knickers' by Nicholas Allen
Children and parents enjoying some bedtime stories during Half Term at Axminster Library. Blankeys and cuddly toys were the order of the day - some of us even wore pyjamas!
Amanda Prowse signs Karen's copy of her book. Amanda Prowse gave a fascinating and inspirational talk about her life. Also at the event there was a lovely range of local pop up shops: Good Golly Miss Molly, Bunyip Beads, Nuggy Bears, Crediton Community Bookshop, Soap Daze, One Dotty Duck, Josie Mary and The Applique Attic.
Amanda Prowse signs Antonia's copy of her book. Amanda Prowse gave a fascinating and inspirational talk about her life. Also at the event there was a lovely range of local pop up shops: Good Golly Miss Molly, Bunyip Beads, Nuggy Bears, Crediton Community Bookshop, Soap Daze, One Dotty Duck, Josie Mary and The Applique Attic.
A display of various publications by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sabine Baring-Gould and Henry Williamson
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
Baring-Gould was born at Dix’s Field in Exeter. His family home was at Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton in West Devon. Baring-Gould was a clergyman, author, composer and collector of folksongs. He collected and made famous the song “Widecombe Fair”, and wrote the hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”. He was a prolific author, whose works included folk songs and local stories and legends from Dartmoor and the surrounding areas. He deposited the music and lyrics he collected in the Free Municipal Library, Plymouth.
Baring-Gould was a founding member of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, and a president of the Devonshire Association. He is buried in the churchyard at Lew Trenchard.
Henry Williamson (1895–1977)
Williamson first moved to Devon in 1921, after an earlier holiday there. He made his home in Georgeham, North Devon. Williamson was a prolific author and writer of articles. “A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight” alone comprised of fifteen volumes.
Much of his work was based on his personal experiences of life and the countryside. “Tarka the Otter” is Williamson’s best selling novel. It demonstrates Williamson’s knowledge and love of the countryside, in his depiction of the otter’s journey along the Taw and Torridge rivers, featuring many recognisable locations. Williamson used the money “Tarka” earned from winning the Hawthornden prize, to build a hut to write in above Georgeham. After moving to Filleigh, near South Molton, he published “Salar the Salmon” which is similar in style to “Tarka”, being the tale of a salmon’s journey down a river from Exmoor. “Life in a Devon Village” and “Tales of a Devon Village” are Williamson’s accounts of his time in Devon. Williamson is buried in St George’s church, Georgeham.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Doyle was the creator of one of fiction’s most popular and enduring characters, Sherlock Holmes. His work has prompted many versions and spinoffs in various forms, from films to musicals. The multitude of fanclubs and societies around the world is testament to his character’s continuing appeal.
Doyle’s main career was as a medical practitioner, and he only began writing as a way to fill in the time. Early in his career, Doyle moved to Durnford Street, Plymouth, to set up a medical practice partnership which later failed. Whilst living in Plymouth, he’s believed to have visited Dartmoor with a local friend, and learnt about the legend of Hound Tor near Buckfastleigh. “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is believed to have derived from this visit. The Fox Tor marsh is thought to be the “Grimpen Mire” of the novel, and Doyle is reputed to have seen the name Baskerville on a cart in Princetown.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Mini camera can recognise the different coloured cars and pick up the correct colour car on command.
Creating beautiful sparkling knickers for the Queen, based on the book 'The Queens Knickers' by Nicholas Allen
Exeter Library Fab Lab have created displays in the library to show the items that have been created. They range from laser cut jewellry, laser etched photos, 3D printed items to textile work.
Camellia Japonica
Image from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine provides an international forum of particular interest to botanists and horticulturists, plant ecologists and those with a special interest in botanical illustration.
Now well over two hundred years old, the Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants. Each four-part volume contains 24 plant portraits reproduced from watercolour originals by leading international botanical artists. Detailed but accessible articles combine horticultural and botanical information, history, conservation and economic uses of the plants described.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine has been published continuously since 1787 although there have been several series within the overall sequence. From 1984 to 1994 the Magazine appeared under the title of The Kew Magazine. In 1995 the publication returned to its roots and the historical and popular name Curtis's Botanical Magazine again took precedence.
Information from Kew Publishing:
www.kew.org/about-kew/kew-publishing/journals/curtis-bota...
Exeter Library Fab Lab have created displays in the library to show the items that have been created. They range from laser cut jewellry, laser etched photos, 3D printed items to textile work. There are also photos and descriptions of the equipment in the Fab Lab.
The Fab Lab has 10 Raspberry Pi model B+ mini-computers. People can learn to program and control robotic systems using them.
Girls and Boys in Storyland. An exhibition of Children's Books from 1800 to 1910. 3 April to 31 May 2012.
Exeter Central Library and The University of Exeter, Research Commons
The hot press is basically a large iron. It is used for transferring prints and vinyl on to t-shirts and textiles.
The GX-24E CAMM-1 Roland vinyl cutter has a sharp knife that cuts vinyl and sticky-back plastic. It can be used to create signs or cutting vinyl to print on a t-shirt.
First ever Photography Day. Guest speakers. Displays. Projections. Colin Munro talks about Global Photography. Active Life Active mind 2014.
Some of the 89 children took part at Exeter Central Library's Summer Reading Challenge Creepy Craft event, 5th August 2013
When Lizzie completed the Summer Reading Challenge she brought the total gold medal winners at Exeter Library to over 500! Lizzie is 8 years old and found a unique quiet space by crawling into a tunnel to complete her maze with the stickers she had collected. Congratulations to Lizzie and all our gold medal winners.
The large red design is a heat transfer motif made using the vinyl cutter to cut the design out and the heat transfer press to apply it to the t-shirt. The small green design on the sleeve was embroidered on using the digital embroidery machine Memory Craft 350E.
Eight year old Sam Brooks, pictured receiving his gold badge and certificate at Teignmouth Library. Sam also had a presentation during school assembly.
Work from the Clay workshop on 24th October at Barnstaple Library, using natural materials to create decorative items.
There was lots of interest in the Connected Exeter Digital Design Weekend. Exeter College, Exeter Phoenix, RAMM, FabLab Devon and the Met Office Trailer were the connected venues for the weekend.
Professor Debra Myhill, Exetreme Imagination Director and Director of the Graduate School of Education at University of Exeter, announced the 3 winners of the “Poppies” Poetry Competition and read out the winning poems. Exetreme imagination is Exeter’s festival of writing for and by young people.