A SUMMER OF WORKSHOPS
Image courtesy of Nila House
Our online workshop programme continues, bringing a wide audience from around the world. These online classes provide a chance to meet fellow textile enthusiasts, creating a community to share, support and preserve craft knowledge and skills.
This summer we have a series of workshops with Nila House, based in Jaipur, India. Through its wide range of platforms and projects, Nila serves as a beacon of excellence, inspiring members of the global crafts and design community to move towards new levels of accountability and social responsibility through craft preservation, circular design and regenerative practices. For Selvedge, they will be offering workshops on Hand-Spinning, Hand-weaving and Indigo Vat Set-Up and Dyeing Techniques. Drawing on India’s rich and diverse craft skills, Nila House supports and promotes artisans across India to preserve and share their knowledge.
Image courtesy of Sewn Company
A regular tutor on our programme of workshops, Sarah Woodyard of Sewn Company is inspired by the labour of historical dressmakers. She spent seven years apprenticing at the Margaret Hunter Millinery Shop in Colonial Williamsburg to learn eighteenth-century mantua-making (dressmaking) and millinery. After completing her apprenticeship she became a Journeywoman mantua-maker and milliner. Sarah also holds a Master of Arts in Material Culture from the University of Alberta. You can read her thesis about hand-sewing here. Join Sarah in her Hand-Sewn Seaming Techniques workshop to enhance your historical or modern sewing practice through hand-sewn seams.
Image courtesy of Lauren MacDonald
In the autumn, we have a range of workshops that teach hand-sewing techniques and slow craft practices, such as creating your own Hand-Smocked Shirt with Lauren MacDonald and the less well-known craft of Canvas Embroidery with Karen Fullalove.
Image courtesy of Karen Fullalove
To find out more about our full programme of online workshops on our website here.
Our online workshop programme continues, bringing a wide audience from around the world. These online classes provide a chance to meet fellow textile enthusiasts, creating a community to share, support and preserve craft knowledge and skills.
This summer we have a series of workshops with Nila House, based in Jaipur, India. Through its wide range of platforms and projects, Nila serves as a beacon of excellence, inspiring members of the global crafts and design community to move towards new levels of accountability and social responsibility through craft preservation, circular design and regenerative practices. For Selvedge, they will be offering workshops on Hand-Spinning, Hand-weaving and Indigo Vat Set-Up and Dyeing Techniques. Drawing on India’s rich and diverse craft skills, Nila House supports and promotes artisans across India to preserve and share their knowledge.
Image courtesy of Sewn Company
A regular tutor on our programme of workshops, Sarah Woodyard of Sewn Company is inspired by the labour of historical dressmakers. She spent seven years apprenticing at the Margaret Hunter Millinery Shop in Colonial Williamsburg to learn eighteenth-century mantua-making (dressmaking) and millinery. After completing her apprenticeship she became a Journeywoman mantua-maker and milliner. Sarah also holds a Master of Arts in Material Culture from the University of Alberta. You can read her thesis about hand-sewing here. Join Sarah in her Hand-Sewn Seaming Techniques workshop to enhance your historical or modern sewing practice through hand-sewn seams.
Image courtesy of Lauren MacDonald
In the autumn, we have a range of workshops that teach hand-sewing techniques and slow craft practices, such as creating your own Hand-Smocked Shirt with Lauren MacDonald and the less well-known craft of Canvas Embroidery with Karen Fullalove.
Image courtesy of Karen Fullalove
To find out more about our full programme of online workshops on our website here.