Platinum AWARD As featured in Country Living Magazine - fun and inspiring beginners needle felting workshops suitable for all levels but especially those ready to take their needle felting to the next stage. Join designer & maker Ria Rich in her colourful studio situated on the beautiful Grand Union Canal in Braunston where this taster session will teach you the basics of screen printing: designing a print, creating stencils, mixing colour palettes and printing your finished design using printing inks. It was a way to collect all my (then experimental) printed textile projects into one place. It is about creating a fibre picture using merino wool, silk and viscose. All materials will be supplied, plus a tote bag, tea towel or ready made cushion cover to print on and take home with you. Learn from textile artist Ruth Parkinson-Johns the art of stitch techniques and textile manipulation. Platinum AWARD During this full day workshop you will create a needle felted animal. Classes are $400* and include: 4 two-hour live class sessions with instructor (recorded and available after class) 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... Discover classes on Textile Design, Embroidery, Fashion Design, and more. Try your hands at creating your very own textile design using Adobe Illustrator. Wet-Felting workshop with Fabulous Feltings This is not felt making. Textile Workshops at Penland Penland offers 1-, 2-, and 8-week workshops taught by visiting instructors in our well-equipped studios. Gold AWARD Tracy will teach you her proven system for producing great artworks for printed surfaces allowing you to unleash your creativity and create fabric designs you never expected you could. In the textile workshop, students can work on the whole pallet from analogue to digital, which follow the range of the educational programme from the classic textile tool disciplines of weaving, knitting and printing to work with surfaces in architectural materials, which are not thread and fabric: e.g. Worcestershire Beginner to some experience.

The SHOW MUST GO ON-line! Embroider in the comfort of your own home, on your machine, while Zandra Shaw, works with you in this live webinar. In the Textile Workshop, the School of Design's students, teachers and researchers work with woven fabrics, knits and prints, which will be components in the products and solutions of tomorrow.
Textile Still Life Workshop See link below to determine shoe size.

Workshops are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome.We will be posting information about spring 2021 workshops in the fall.
On this one-day course, the techniques of layering and stitching fabrics that I have developed will be used to build up a landscape.