Discover the joy of playful experimentation in this hands-on workshop. You’ll create your own Spring-inspired mixed media image using intuitive painting techniques such as inks and bleach, watercolours, and wax resist.

Once your painting begins to take shape, you’ll explore free machine embroidery — using stitch as a mark-making tool to enhance and transform your artwork.
There will be plenty of options for those who wish to take the theme further: adding birds or butterflies, experimenting with carbon paper for drawing, or incorporating stencils. Mixed media is wonderfully creative — there are no rules, just curiosity and a willingness to have a go.

No prior experience is necessary. Your tutor will guide you through the process and respond to individual ideas and needs.

A light lunch, refreshments and materials are provided, however please bring your own sewing machine. If you don’t have one, please let us know in advance so that we can arrange one for you to borrow.

Date	Thursday 16th April
Tutor	Delny Fitrzyk
Time	10.00am – 4.00pm
Ref	3933
Fees	£85
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Loop-manipulated textiles that use just a single needle can be traced as far back as the Mesolithic period and are still popular today, particularly in Scandinavia. Join us for a fascinating hands-on journey through the history and ancient roots of nalbinding, a technique that predates knitting by thousands of years, and has been used to make everything from socks, to bags, mittens and more.

Working step-by-step, you’ll learn five distinctive stitches to give you a comprehensive grounding in this remarkably versatile craft:

• Simple looping.
• looping around a core (Tybrind Vig stitch).
• Coptic stitch (cross-knit looping).
• York (Coppergate) stitch.
• Oslo stitch.

Go home with a new understanding and appreciation of this ancient technique, and a range of sample pieces.

No prior experience is required — just enthusiasm and curiosity for ancient textiles and traditional making!

Date	Wednesday 29th April
Tutor	Sally Pointer
Time	10.00am - 4.00pm
Ref	3958
Fees	£85
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This fun introductory workshop is a wonderful opportunity to learn from Braid Society members Anne Dyer, Julie Hedges and Kay Hawkins. You will be introduced to a variety of basic braids, cords and knots as well as special braiding techniques from all over the world, including Ply-Split and Kumihimo.

Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned braider, you will find new braids to discover, and go home with some brilliant sample braids of your own. Braids can be used for all sorts of things, including decorative belts, trimmings, straps, handles and more - once you have started, you will find the possibilities are endless!

The Braid Society has very kindly subsidised this course. All materials are included in the course fee.

Spend a day playing with embroidery and textile techniques and effects in this repeat of a very popular workshop. This workshop is inspired by lone trees in the landscape, originally the Sycamore Gap tree. This is a lovely little project it has a nice collection of techniques....

> Needle felted background.
> Using soluble film as a stabiliser.
> Hand and machine embroidery.
> Needle felting for texture.
> Angelina!! (twinkly bonded fibres).

A light lunch, refreshments and most materials are included in the workshop fee, however please bring along your own sewing machine, threads and any bits and pieces you want to include in your piece.

Date	Wednesday 13th May
Tutor	Angie Hughes
Time	10.00am - 4.00pm
Ref	3977
Fees	£85
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Spend a fascinating day with flax experts Simon and Ann Cooper learning about this most useful and ancient plant. The morning will involve a presentation on the history of flax, and then in the afternoon you will have the opportunity to process and make your own flax thread. Go home inspired and informed.

Morning:

• Introduction, presentation on flax and hemp ancient and modern with examples of fabric for everyone to see.
• How to grow flax from seed, harvesting and retting flax straw with more hands-on examples.
• Working flax straw on a bench to extract fibres, twisting to make a balanced thread.

After lunch:

• Working prepared fibres ready for spinning, dressing a distaff, use of drop spindle.
• Spinning tow with a twine twister.
• Basic weaving on prepared warp using threads made through the day.

This workshop is suitable for anyone with an interest in flax, either growing, spinning or weaving. No previous experience is required.

Date	Thursday 14th May
Tutor	Simon and Ann Cooper
Time	10.00am - 4.00pm
Ref	3957
Fees	£85
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Create a scarf from soft black cotton velvet, lined with fine black cotton lawn. You will use a bleaching paste with blocks and/or stencils to remove some of the black dye, leaving patterns in shades of rose pink to terracotta, standing out vividly against the dark background.

You will finish the scarf with a simple lining of black cotton lawn, sewn to the main velvet body. Experiment with geometric shapes and patterns, or make your own design.

This workshop is suitable for complete beginners as well as more experienced textile artists

Date	Thursday 14th May
Tutor	Clare Linford
Time	10.00am - 4.00pm
Ref	3967
Fees	£85
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Join us for a fascinating introduction to Sprang, one of the world’s oldest textile techniques.

Sprang is a remarkable method of interlinking and braiding on stretched threads, with examples dating back to the Neolithic period. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the basics using a simple stick frame to create beautifully elastic fabrics ideal for bags, caps, and more.

Most participants go home with a small finished bag, a collection of sample pieces, and a work-in-progress to continue at home - along with a new appreciation for the ingenuity of this timeless textile craft and its early makers.

This workshop is suitable for all skill levels, from complete beginners onwards.

Date	Wednesday 3rd June
Tutor	Sally Pointer
Time	10.00am - 4.00pm
Ref	3959
Fees	£85
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