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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Felted Christmas table runner/ Place mat course in Worcestershire

Felted Christmas table runner/ Place mat course in Worcestershire

Worcestershire - Next course on 15th December 2019

Come around and create a unique handmade Felted Christmas table decoration –either a table runner or a table mat. This will be a centre piece of your festive table and draw everyone’s attention. Made of prefelt and merino wool and decorated with embroidery and creative stitches this felted piece has a handmade Christmas flower candle holder in the middle and lovely holly leaves and berries. No matter if you are a beginner in felting or an experienced felt maker you will enjoy learning wet felting technique with an experienced Textiles...

Needle felted animals or pictures- Feltworld

Needle felted animals or pictures- Feltworld

Staffordshire - Next course on 15th December 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 14th December 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...

Fascinator making Birmingham millinery workshop

Fascinator making Birmingham millinery workshop

West Midlands - Next course on 1st March 2020

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...

Textile Still Life Workshop

Textile Still Life Workshop

Dorset - Next course on 19th January 2020

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...

Needle Felting course with FURZIE at Wadswick Country Store, Corsham, Wilts

Needle Felting course with FURZIE at Wadswick Country Store, Corsham, Wilts

Wiltshire - Next course on 14th January 2020

Learn the basics of needle felting and make a hare, or other animal. You will be shown how to make a wire armature for your model, how to form the structure and apply the wool, add features ... and ears! Course is suitable for absolute beginners - don't be afraid to have a go! Please note that Furzie cannot be held responsible for accommodation costs if the course has to be cancelled, course fees will be refunded, but we ask that you check the terms and conditions from the accommodation...

Art to stitch textile - 4 week course

Art to stitch textile - 4 week course

Worcestershire - Next course on 6th January 2020

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.

Needle felting with The Lady Moth in Cambridge - animals & wool paintings

Needle felting with The Lady Moth in Cambridge - animals & wool paintings

Cambridgeshire - Next course on 12th January 2020

Needle felting classes suitable for beginners and improvers. Run by Żenia, an experienced teacher, designer and fibre artist known as The Lady Moth. The content of each course varies from date to date & projects change seasonally. Courses in January and February 2020 are fully booked now. In Spring we will be making bunnies and Spring wool paintings. Workshops sell out fast so please book early to avoid disappointment. Please enquire for the latest information via "contact" button - please provide your telephone number and email address. Please visit this...

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