Rubina Porter has worked with the Orphanage in Sreepur Bangladesh since 1990.               Approached by The Craft Museum of Finland , she produced a box made of Sreepur woven silk, dyed with tea and embellished with dyed threads. It was accepted and can be seen at The Craft Museum in Jyvaskyla, from May 17th to September 10th.                                                        

Ruby has also organised exhibitions of of Textiles and Embroidery from Bangladesh showing at the following venues.

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The Castle Gallery  12 June - 22 July     
Boat Museum  Ellesmere Port   24 - 30 July      
 Liverpool Town Hall  14 - 19 and  21 - 26  August  
Calderstones Coach House  28 Aug - 3  Sept and  23 - 29 October

Merseyside Guild member,    Val Heron, co-ordinator of the Hoare Gallery in the Anglican Cathedral requires helpers to man the desk at the exhibition.  Prospective researchers can access the hidden embroideries by contacting the Cathedral office.

Ruby Porter  has new products from Sreepur, Bangladesh.  The orphans are shown   making straw cards and preparing straw for a new product--Twisted straw thread for embroidery,  On the left are embroidered mobil phone bags.

At a recent workshop for Young Embroiderers  from Merseyside,  Wirral,  Chester,  and Bickerton,  held in the Liverpool  Women`s  Hospital  education suite, Ruby Porter,had samples of new products from Sreepur, Bangladesh.                                   These included Thankyou cards in straw work,  embroidered mobile phone bags,  Coloured twisted embroidery thread, and cards showing this interesting material  in use   Ruby can be contacted through the comments page.