Fashion & accessories

Sub-categories: Accessories: head to toe fashion | Bag making | Dressmaking & tailoring: clothes making | Millinery (hat making & fascinators) | Scarf & glove making | Shoe making

You may also be interested in: Crochet | Felt-making (wet felting) | Knitting | Knitting, crochet & macrame | Nuno felting

Be inspired by leather, fabrics, feathers, flowers and even straw to make your own hat, gloves, shoes, bag, purses, scarves and more! Learn traditional skills from the professionals.

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Willow handbag / shoulder bag

Willow handbag / shoulder bag

In-person course

South Yorkshire

Make a handbag or shoulder bag using beautiful natural coloured willow and weaves. The handbag will have a hazel or a driftwood handle and the shoulder bag a leather strap. There will be a range to choose from on the day or you can bring your own. You will be using a pre-prepared base which will give you the time and space focus on control of shape/form and producing accurate and aesthetically pleasing weaves. Suitable for those with no/some previous experience. Please let us know if you have any specific...

Leather messenger/saddle bag 2 day course with Catherine Edwards West Yorkshire

Leather messenger/saddle bag 2 day course with Catherine Edwards West Yorkshire

In-person course

Yorkshire - Next course on 27th March 2021

We’re very happy to welcome back Catherine Edwards to teach another 2 day leather bag making workshop. Create your own beautiful leather Messenger Bag with solid brass or chrome buckle and fittings. Spend two creative days producing and personalizing your own Messenger Bag in a smooth natural hide. Small, and friendly group, supervised by Catherine, this workshop is a great way to introduce yourself to working with leather and will teach you important basic skills, original ideas and creativity are encouraged as you are individually tutored. Try a range of...

2 day millinery masterclass: create your very own headdresses and fascinators

2 day millinery masterclass: create your very own headdresses and fascinators

Live online tuition

- Next course on 19th September 2020

Join us at our live online course! Would you like to learn how to create your very own headpieces, fascinators… transforming them into unique jewel headresses? …or perhaps you’re passionate about hats, fascinators, headdresses and would like to start learning more about the art of millinery! Who is this course for? This course is suitable for all abilities: • Beginners who would like to make headdresses for an upcoming event • People who would like to start out in the world of millinery • Professionals in millinery and fashion who...

Millinery workshop: Vintage Style Button Percher Hat

Millinery workshop: Vintage Style Button Percher Hat

In-person course

Worcestershire - Next course on 8th August 2020

Create your own beautiful button vintage style hat with Kerry Kernan Millinery on this one day millinery workshop. This workshop will show you how to block a hat, edge it with wire and ribbon and if time allows, create a beautiful embellishment. No experience necessary. If you are interested in this workshop but cannot make the dates listed, please get in touch and I will happily work with you to find a suitable date. If you would like to book this workshop for a private party i.e. Hen Party or...

Pattern Cutting for Bags - Designing Bags in 3D

Pattern Cutting for Bags - Designing Bags in 3D

In-person course

Oxfordshire - Next course on 28th September 2020

Pattern Cutting For Bags 5 day practical bag pattern cutting course Gain the knowledge to create and design your OWN bag patterns at the Hands of Tym Home Studio in Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK This course is ideal for all, from beginners to confident designers/ makers/ crafters. You will learn the basics of pattern cutting for bags through to more complex cutting techniques for multiple shapes, details and techniques. The course will enable you to produce the bags you have been dreaming up and designing into a 3-Dimensional tangible reality. We...

Glove making workshop

Glove making workshop

In-person course

This course provides a great opportunity to learn the difficult techniques and processes of glove making. Learn to stitch a glove. You will get the glove already cut and prepared to stitch and finish. You will be able to design the glove as you required. This course is popular in UK and abroad as well. We had many local and international students travel to UK specially to participate in this course. Starting from selecting leather, stretching, cutting to final finishing, you will learn the whole process of glove making, including...

Introduction to pattern cutting at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

Introduction to pattern cutting at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

In-person course

This course will teach you the essentials of flat pattern cutting such as how to lay a block on paper and to make pattern adaptions to realise your own designs. This course has different elements in each term: Term 1 - skirt block. Term 2 - trouser block. Term 3 - bodice block. Who is this course for This course is for anyone who has an interest in fashion who wants to learn to make their own blocks and patterns for dressmaking. It is beneficial to have some sewing machine...

Leather Tote Workshop

Leather Tote Workshop

Live online tuition

Learn leather sewing from the comfort of your own home. We will provide the materials and the support whilst you get to grips with leather bag-making skills. You will make a beautiful bag that is very satisfying to make and a great introduction to working with leather. But you will also finish with techniques and skills that you can apply to future projects. On this workshop you will: 1) Understand putting structure into leather 2) Learn to paint using specialist paints 2) Understand bag construction 3) Learn hand stitching techniques...

Make a leather bag in a day workshop

Make a leather bag in a day workshop

In-person course

Join Esther Keen from Leather Needle Thread in Bristol to make a leather bag in a day. There is a choice of bucket bag or tote bag and a wide choice of beautiful coloured vegetable tanned full grain leather as well as metallic leather. Learn how to craft your own leather bag using a semi industrial sewing machine. You will be able to mix and match leather colours and tweak the designs to make the bags more your own and to emboss the bag with your name or any other...

Stitchless bags workshop - learn how to craft your own leather bag with no stitching

Stitchless bags workshop - learn how to craft your own leather bag with no stitching

In-person course

Make your own small shoulder bag from leather with no stitching. Using only rivets and lacing techniques this is a great introduction to leatherwork. You will be able to choose from a selection of Italian vegetable tanned leather and to emboss it with your name or other words to personalise it. The bags are small shoulder style bags, made from hard vegetable tanned leather and are unlined. You can also make stitchless small leather goods - choose from a simple purse a card holder, a glasses case, a travel pouch,...

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