Debbie Siniska has worked professionally from her home in East Sussex as a designer, maker, teacher and writer for the past 20 years specializing in rag rug making using the shuttle hook and recycled textiles. Her rag rugs are made using traditional and contemporary techniques. Debbie is also a felt maker, and makes felt clothing and jewellery. She had taught in schools and colleges, at young offenders centres and at women's refuge. She also visits textiles groups up and down the country. The Tate Gallery in London commissioned and sold her Bloomsbury rugs which accompanied an important Bloomsbury exhibition to celebrate the millennium.
Debbie works to commission for interior design companies and privately, and she sells through galleries and art shows. Her work has sold in the United States, France and Switzerland She has published a book on beadwork jewellery. She holds regular workshops in Kent and East Sussex and her successful project Creativity in Schools, a fun hands-on art project, gets children working with traditional hand tools, and recycled textiles.
Debbie works to commission for interior design companies and privately, and she sells through galleries and art shows. Her work has sold in the United States, France and Switzerland She has published a book on beadwork jewellery. She holds regular workshops in Kent and East Sussex and her successful project Creativity in Schools, a fun hands-on art project, gets children working with traditional hand tools, and recycled textiles.
