News for July 2009

Welcome to the Rainbow Silks news page

VISIT OUR SHOP AT 85 HIGH STREET, GREAT MISSENDEN - OPEN 10.00 TO 4.00, MONDAY TO SATURDAY. The shop is located just in front of Wheelers Yard, on the High Street right next door to the new Roald Dahl Museum. We have lots more room to show our wonderful range of products, and we hope you will be able to visit us soon. The phone number for the shop is 01494 862929 - we cannot help with any mail-order enquiries in the shop, nor class bookings.

MAIL-ORDER HOURS Our mail-order department is manned from 9-3, Monday to Friday. IT IS NO LONGER MANNED ON SATURDAY, as we are busy in the shop. The mail-order answerphone is on, so please leave a message if we are not there, and we will get back to you. We cannot take mail-orders or queries concerning mail-order in the shop, as we do not have order information there. If you need to contact the Shop direct, please phone 01494 862929.

New Products

Show Information

See our Shows page for details of the shows that we will be attending.

Visit our Studio at 4 Wheelers Yard (just behind our shop) to see key pieces from the new Rowan Magazine, along with gorgeous new ranges of yarns and colourways, and Rowan pattern books. Try the yarns out using needles, looms and other textile tools. Open Tues 7th-Thurs 9th, Sat 11th, Tues 14th & Wed 15th, 10am to 4pm.

ROWAN 30TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION AT MISSENDEN ABBEY, GREAT MISSENDEN.

From Tues 7th to Thurs 9th April open 11am to 3pm. A chance to see knitted pieces from the past three decades of Rowan yarns.

EXTREME KNITTING AT ONE CHURCH GALLERY

Just around the corner from our shop, the Gallery is at 1 Church Street, Gt Missenden. The exhibition is open from Mon 6th to Thurs 9th April. The installations include massive knitting needles, knitting plastic bags, a knitted cave and knitted sculpture. There will people teaching basiuc knitting skills to those who are new to knitting, and for those who can already knit you will be introduced to new ways of using the knitting process.

See more details here : http://www.onechurchstreet.co.uk/

And finally ...

Our normal opening hours are 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday. Open until 5pm on Fridays during Missenden Abbey termtime.

Come to visit us at any time, and not only will you be able to see all of the products in the mail-order list, but you will also be able to buy from our "bin" of end of rolls and discontinued merchandise.

If you would like to see our Studio, where classes are run and exhibitions held, please ask.

Happy painting - dyeing - stitching - stamping - crafting!

Caroline