Fashion & accessories courses

Sub-categories: 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

Learn to make your own clothes and accessories at courses and workshops all across the UK, with experienced and talented tutors. Find courses in hat, bag or scarf making or learn traditional skills such as glove or shoe making.

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Two day leather work course - bag making

Two day leather work course - bag making

Lancashire - Next course on 2nd November 2019

As featured on Made in Great Britain on BBC2, learn traditional leatherwork skills at Diamond Awl Workshop. On our two day leather bag making course you will have the choice of making either a messenger bag, tote bag or postal bag. No prior leatherwork experience is needed as you will learn all the core leatherwork skills plus additional techniques that are relevant to the more complex process of leather bag making. You will leave the course having made your very own bag using high quality vegetable tanned leather and metal...

Millinery workshop: make a hat day workshop

Millinery workshop: make a hat day workshop

Worcestershire - Next course on 18th October 2019

Come and use the selection of hat blocks available at Kerry Kernan Millinery on this one day millinery workshop. This millinery course will enable you to create your own hat in a style that you would like. There are many styles that you can complete in a day but if you wish to create a design that would take longer I can book you in for a follow up day or your could book onto one of my hat making weekends (see my other listing). You can decorate your new...

'Bag in a Day' practical leather course - mini bucket bag

'Bag in a Day' practical leather course - mini bucket bag

Oxfordshire - Next course on 14th March 2020

Make a Bag in a Day - Craft it Yourself! This course is ideal for all, from beginners to confident makers. You will learn the basics of leather craft for accessories and be introduced to techniques including machine stitching on leather, hand finishing and hand cutting. You will also be working with the full spectrum of leather types from soft leathers and suedes to a hard sturdy veg tanned leather. This is a perfect introductory course to start your journey into leatherwork and bag making as you will experience the...

Glove making workshop

Glove making workshop

Greater London - Next course on 11th November 2019

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...

Make a leather bag in a day workshop

Make a leather bag in a day workshop

Bristol - Next course on 6th November 2019

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

Bristol - Next course on 30th November 2019

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,...

Fascinator making Birmingham millinery workshop

Fascinator making Birmingham millinery workshop

West Midlands - Next course on 18th October 2019

Imagine going to an event this year and proud as punch wearing your fascinator, telling everyone, "I made this!" Create your very own fascinator in this one day workshop in my home studio in Kings Heath, Birmingham. You can learn lots of techniques using a fabulous material called sinamay, available in loads of gorgeous colours, as well as veiling, beads and wire and crinoline. You can learn how to make: - Roses - Lillies - Bows & loops - Leaves - Buttercups - 'Feathers' Never sewn before? No problem! I'll...

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

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

London - Next course on 15th January 2020

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...

Make your very own crossbody/messenger bag

Make your very own crossbody/messenger bag

Greater London - Next course on 25th October 2019

Our Leather Craft Workshop Days are designed to be all about you…. getting hands on and making your very own crossbody bag from a selection of our premium grade leathers. On our workshops we don't operate with pre-cut bag templates, but we do have suggested largest sizes for each style of bag and this is solely to ensure you will have enough time on your workshop day to actually complete all the preparation, saddle stitching and bag straps. Approx dimensions are 32cms wide x 23cms tall to fit an A4...

Nuno felted scarf or felted pictures

Nuno felted scarf or felted pictures

Staffordshire - Next course on 26th October 2019

You have the choice of making a unique nuno felted scarf, a warm woolly scarf or a piece of wall-art. Beginners welcome. Scarf option: during this fabulous felting day, we will make a scarf using soft merino wool and a silk scarf, incorporating a beautiful 100% silk scarf and silky fibres to give it a shimmer effect if desired. By manipulating a thin layer of wool through a fine woven material, we will make a scarf with characteristics which are quite different from a traditional felt and is much thicker....

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