Please Touch is a co-project of the Embroiderers' Guild and ClearVision lending library. The Embroiderers' Guild called thousands of embroiderers and crafts people to stretch their skills and create unique tactile books for visually impaired children. The competition intends to generate hundreds of handmade 'tactile' books to stimulate and excite young learners with little or no sight. Children will be able to feel, stroke, pull, lift, shake, sniff, rattle, and squeak their way through the story.

The Embroiderers' Guild will donate all the entries to the ClearVision library and the best will be exhibited at the Knitting and Stitching Shows 2002 in London, Harrogate and Dublin.

ClearVision is a nationwide lending library providing opportunities for visually impaired young learners to read books previously in accessible to them. ClearVision books are borrowed by over 600 schools, public libraries, resource bases, visual impairment services and individual families throughout the UK.

The Embroiderers' Guild is a leading UK charity, museum and membership association for the promotion of embroidery. The Embroiderers' Guild strives to encourage and support new talents in contemporary embroidery and textile arts by organising such events as art of the STITCH, open international biennial exhibition, and the Graduate Showcase at The Knitting and Stitching Shows.

For further information contact Sally Fahy on 020 8943 1229
email [email protected]

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