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This exciting course of enamelling on copper explores the skills and techniques of kiln enamelling, a colourful course. We'll be exploring enamelling step by step, learning to fuse finely powdered enamel onto the surface of copper to create beautiful glossy glassy surfaces. These ancient techniques were first used by the Chinese, Greeks, Celts and Egyptians to decorate metal and add colour to metal jewellery and other precious objects. During the day session, we will experiment with a range of decorative techniques to create your own one-off pieces, to make your...

We will use natural coloured wool to needle felt an animal head or picture and then blend wools to add details and colour to create our beautiful animals. We will explore different types of needles as we felt the various parts of the animal. A selection of models and images will be available on the day but if you have an image you would like to have a try at creating then please bring them with you, we cannot guarantee to be able to make every breed as fibres and...

We will be creating pictures using all the skills of needle felting. All you need to bring is a selection of photos to use as stimulus for your finished piece. This will help us both to help you create an image you love by the end of the session. We provide all the materials for you to explore to create your picture. The beauty of needle felting a picture is that you are able to change colours or create subtle colour changes as you progress. You may wish to create...