Textile art courses

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Textile arts courses, classes and workshops taught at locations all across the UK. Is your eye caught by bright and beautiful fabrics? Your gaze held by the allure of a perfect loom? Do you long to plunge your hand into sackfuls of fine merino wool? Textile art is as wide and varied as the numerous fibres available to man-kind. In this section you will find courses and workshops run by experienced dedicated textile artists, who will help you develop your own potential. You can learn techniques such as embroidery, batik, sewing, hand spinning, knitting, crochet, felting, rug making and weaving. A thriving modern art form, textile art courses are available up and down the UK, as short workshops, weekly clubs, weekend retreats or longer evening courses.

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Needle felted animals with Feltworld

Needle felted animals with Feltworld

Staffordshire - Next course on 26th October 2019

During this half day workshop you will create a needle felted animal or a flat picture of any image you choose. Full day courses are also available on request and via my website. We will be using various wool fibres and a barbed felting needle to knit the fibres together. Beginner to some experience. Half day- Small animals could be an owl, penguin, bird or similar. Full day you would make a more substantial animal i.e animal with leg, ears etc... you need a full day to create an animal...

Textile landscape workshop in Dorset

Textile landscape workshop in Dorset

Dorset - Next course on 27th October 2019

On this one-day course, the techniques of layering and stitching fabrics that I have developed will be used to build up a landscape. Learn how to use colour and texture to create depth, using a simple running stitch on either an electric or hand sewing machine. No specific sewing skills or sophisticated machines are needed for this technique but by incorporating drawing and painting, you will be sure of making original and unique work as well as learning a new approach. Please bring your own sewing machine if possible as...

Textile Still Life Workshop

Textile Still Life Workshop

Dorset - Next course on 2nd November 2019

Learn the techniques that I have developed and use in making my still life textile work. Make your own patterns from favourite objects that you bring along (or from objects in my collection),working with painted and printed fabrics, layered and stitched in place to create vibrant and intricate arrangements. As in my landscape courses, no specific sewing skills or sophisticated machines are necessary but please bring a machine if possible, fabrics that particularly inspire you(I will also have a good supply of fabric available) and, of course, items that you...

Art to stitch textile - 4 week course

Art to stitch textile - 4 week course

Worcestershire - Next course on 8th November 2019

Learn from textile artist Ruth Parkinson-Johns the art of stitch techniques and textile manipulation. This is a 4 week course running throughout the year on Friday afternoons at Inkberrow Design Centre now based in Bromsgrove B61 7DL. Learn textile drawing & sketching with visiting textile artist Ruth Parkinson-Johns. This is a course for those who are passionate about creative textiles. You will work with mixed media techniques, fabric decoration to include some dyeing and printing followed by stitching with free hand machine embroidery and combined with experimental techniques. The beginning...

Beginners Hand Embroidery at the Flamingo Centre

Beginners Hand Embroidery at the Flamingo Centre

This new design covers a wide range of basic embroidery stitches to create a pleasing cottage garden scene. It is stitched on even weave linen and can be finished your own choice of lining fabric and ribbon, this will be stitched over a 12 week course. The class runs from 1-3pm weekly.

Printology Block Printing Surface Design

Printology Block Printing Surface Design

Buckinghamshire

Colouricious Printology is a 3 day block printing course for textile surface design. Learn how to block print on a Colouricious Printology residential textile workshop teaching you how to block print onto fabric and paper, gelli printing & stencil art. All 3 days will be timetabled and structured. You will cover: Pattern theory, layering techniques, masking, block printing, gelli printing, decolourant, stencils & sewing projects.

Machine embroidery - stitch doodling with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcester

Worcestershire - Next course on 23rd November 2019

Machine embroidery is now such a popular art form and can be done in so many different ways. You will learn several techniques and use fabric and paint during the day. Julie aims to show you many ways that machine embroidery can be used with plenty of examples to inspire you. Suitable for beginners, and sometimes it's even easier if you are a beginner, as you have to forget everything you’ve previously learned about precision and just go with the flow. You will need to bring your own sewing machine,...

Free-machine embroidery workshops in Sheffield S11

Free-machine embroidery workshops in Sheffield S11

South Yorkshire - Next course on 30th November 2019

Free-machine embroidery is a fun and exciting way of ‘drawing’ with your sewing machine. Suitable for complete beginners who haven’t used a machine before to experienced sewers who would like to have a go or refresh their skills. I enjoy teaching and encouraging others to try a new art form, or to develop their existing skills with fabric and stitch. During the workshop in my new studio space at the ‘Stitched Up and Fleeced’ studios, we will experiment with free-machine embroidery 'drawing with stitch'. I will show you how to...

Needle felting workshop - Harry the Hare, Frankie Fox or Billy Badger

Needle felting workshop - Harry the Hare, Frankie Fox or Billy Badger

Warwickshire - Next course on 11th November 2019

Fun and inspiring beginners needle felting workshops, in the beautiful surroundings of Crafty Gal HQ, Needle Felting Studio in Marlcliff, near Bidford on Avon. Whether you’ve seen needle felting on TV, had a little go or just fancy trying something creative and different - this course is for you. An introduction to the magic of dry needle felting incl. all the basic techniques, step by step, to get you started and to create a beautiful woodland creature of your very own. Makes a great gift! By the time you leave...

Introduction to frame loom weaving

Introduction to frame loom weaving

Hampshire - Next course on 26th October 2019

Learn how to weave using a wooden frame lap loom. Students will learn how to make their own fabric, warp their own loom, finish and create their own woven wall-hanging or decorative fabric. The project will have a focus on texture, pattern and colour where all materials will be included. Meet the Tutor Alice Hume is a Textile Artist who graduated from Winchester School of Art with a degree in Textile Design: Woven Textiles. She also had the opportunity to study Woven Design at the Swedish School of Textiles in...

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