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Dorothy
AllsoppI was very saddened to read of the death of Dorothy Allsopp. She was my tutor in the 1950s at Hammersmith College of Art and helped me through my first City & Guilds. Whenever I met her at exhibitions, she would always greet me as if it was only yesterday she had seen me. She was a great lady. I have, over the years, cherished the copies of The Needlework Development Scheme pamphlets in which she was very involved. Due to shortage of space, I am having to consider selling them and wonder if there is someone who would be interested in them.
Rita Weiss
40 Brightwell Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 9EE
...and...November 2000
Like many other readers of The World of Embroidery, I was very sad to read of the death of Dorothy Allsopp. I was one of her students at the Hammersmith College of Art and Building when she left to join the ILEA Inspectorate. After taking my City & Guilds Teachers' Certificate, she helped me towards teaching a number of adult education classes around London and I was also a teacher on some of the teachers' Refresher Courses that she organised. She was always so kind and encouraging and was marvellous at feeding in ideas for development. When she retired from teaching at Hammersmith, we (her students) made her a cushion, each student designing a section which were then pieced together into a circular design. The motifs used were stylised trees and buildings - very 1960s and 'NDS'! I would love to know if anyone has any idea of its whereabouts. Have her embroideries been given to the Embroiderers' Guild?
Ann Mary Johnstone
Aylesbury, Bucks
... and ...It was interesting to read Anne Mary Johnstone's letter about Dorothy Allsopp's class (The World of Embroidery, November 2000). I was one of them and embroidered a tree for the cushion. I do not know where it is now. I went on to sit my City & Guilds advanced exam and, later, my teacher's certificate at Chiswick Polytechnic. Miss Allsopp and Miss Iris Hills had a great influence on my approach to embroidery. I shall always look back on a very happy class and recall the students in that class.
Gladys Hope
Frome, Somerset