Artificial Silk creates international projects you can get involved in…
… whether you’re starting out or further along in your creative journey.
Fresh approaches – celebrating difference – matter to us
We encourage everyone to feel inspired by new ideas, stories and conversations in the uplifting group workshops, through 1:1 mentoring in person or digital (for fiction and memoir writing).
Our print projects, events and workshops with uplifing conversation and visual art and text objects inspire new ways of thinking.
Quality and commitment – not speed – matter to us
We connect talented writers, visual artists and industry professionals with people who are just starting out and want to explore their own creativity.
We encourage readers to engage with the exciting new text, design and audio we commission and showcase.
– Writing, visuals, performance, text, sound and movement
– exObjects writing, visual art and workshops
Of worlds we built in the light of night skies
Of dreams I am yet to dream
Of moments we are yet to live
– England-India collaborations… read the six new Writing that Sings stories
– Performances of new writing… read about the 2025 pilot play set in Blackpool
The Typing Man short story published in a single edition book with foil cover that was adapted for an immersive light and audio experience by A.T. Boyle. It featured projected graphics and composed sound that brought Istanbul in Turkey to the heart of Liverpool in England. Read about our creative team.
A.T. Boyle’s story set in Istanbul was shortlisted from over 2,000 entries in the Mslexia awards. Alison played the narrator in the drama.
– Look inside The Typing Man eBook
![The Typing Man by [A. T. Boyle, Gül Turner]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BxALE90aL.jpg)
– To buy a limited edition of The Typing book, printed in Cumbria in northern England with a silver foiled cover and original illustrations, please email: artificialsilkorg@ gmail.com
– Community projects
– Industrial and cultural heritage
Artificial silk is a textile. From the eve of the Second World War this transformative textile was manufactured in a huge Lancashire factory where people from many countries worked side by side.
Filaments of silk made from the cellulose in wood we pigmented and twisted together and woven into clothes, war-time parachutes, sanitary wear including pads, items for hospitals, and many other forms. M&S used artificial silk for their popular nighties. Artificial silk was exported all over the world.
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