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Tadek Beutlich, from Second World War soldier to master weaver in the picturesque village of Ditchling
Tadek Beutlich was a seminal figure in the mid 20th-century reinvention of craft weaving as an art form.
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A new show at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in East Sussex will be the first survey in more than 25 years of his groundbreaking work both as a textile artist and a printmaker.
The exhibition will include large works woven at Gospels, Beutlich’s Ditchling studio between and , with free-standing off-loom pieces and experimental relief prints made using tree sections, Lycra and foam rubber.
Among the most important pieces will be Dream Revealed (), a m-high hanging shroud of unspun jute, mohair and horsehair. Currently under restoration—dust and insect damage are a conservation headache for textile art—it has not been seen in public since
Born in Poland in to a German father and a Polish mother, Beutlich was demobbed in Britain in after serving on both sides in t