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Secret 2 day workshop in July! (UK)
For details send me a request at takingtextilesfurther@gmail.com. Basically I'm still working on this one - hope to have news soon!
10 July. 'Piano Hinge style handmade book' at Granary Studio, Owslebury, UK
A Sculptural Bookbinding Workshop. Learn how to create a distinctive “piano hinge” or stick-bound book — a playful, flexible structure that opens beautifully and becomes a piece of art in its own right.
11, 12 July. 'Melted Pathways: Heat Reactive Textures and Stitch' at Granary Studio, Owslebury, UK
Discover how heat can transform everyday synthetic fabrics into sculptural surfaces. We’ll work with chiffons, Zeelon, Lutradur and other man-made materials, exploring how they shrink, distort and blister under controlled heat. Layer, melt and manipulate your fabrics to create bold textural foundations, then add stitched lines or swirling patterns to build a richly dimensional piece. A playful workshop full of experimentation and surface exploration.
16 -23 July. 'Metal & Thread: Inspired by the Lines and Textures of Nature' at the very special Studio Preniac, France
Explore the beauty of the natural world through textile art. Drawing inspiration from the intricate forms, lines, and patterns found in nature—such as tree bark, leaf veins, flowers, seeds, and fungi—you’ll create a unique textile art piece that reflects your favourite natural inspirations.
Under Alysn’s guidance, you’ll work with an exciting range of materials, including metal fabrics, soluble film, Lutradur, Tyvek, and wire. Techniques will include machine and/or hand stitching, wire manipulation, colouring metal with heat, beading, and embellishment.
Set in a stunning and tranquil part of the Lot region in South West France, Studio Préniac hosts tutor-led creative textile and painting holidays.
Under Alysn’s guidance, you’ll work with an exciting range of materials, including metal fabrics, soluble film, Lutradur, Tyvek, and wire. Techniques will include machine and/or hand stitching, wire manipulation, colouring metal with heat, beading, and embellishment.
Set in a stunning and tranquil part of the Lot region in South West France, Studio Préniac hosts tutor-led creative textile and painting holidays.
29 July - 2 August. The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK
28 July: Barking Mad
30 July: Baubels
30 July: Hot, Wet & Sticky
31 July: Impressive Metals
31 July: Sculptural weaving with metal and Wire
1 August: Tangled Treasures
2 August: Impressive Metals
30 July: Baubels
30 July: Hot, Wet & Sticky
31 July: Impressive Metals
31 July: Sculptural weaving with metal and Wire
1 August: Tangled Treasures
2 August: Impressive Metals
5 August 'Slash and Burn' at Oxfordshire Art and Craft, UK
Have fun by combining metal fabric with synthetic fabrics and applying heat in various ways before and after stitching. Create a textured, layered panel.
6, 7 August. Metal and Thread Nature inspirations at Oxfordshire Arts and Crafts, UK
A 2 day workshop to explore techniques and design using natural shapes as inspiration and metal cloth and stitch as technique.
8 August. 'Angelina fibre with a hint of Hundertwasser', Oxfordshire Art and Craft, UK
A day using the non-fusible Angelina fibres to create a complex, layered and stitched surface.
14, 15, 16 August. 'Metal Threads Inspired by lines in nature' at Craft Arena, Essex, UK
Three days to explore the properties of metal cloths combined with stitch, wires and threads.
12, 13, 14 September. 'Between Surface and Structure' at Timeless Textiles
This three-day workshop allows you to explore the relationship between richly layered textile surfaces and sculptural structures, combining paper, fibre, stitch and wire techniques to create work that moves between two and three dimensions.
Book via Timeless Textiles
Book via Timeless Textiles
29 September. 'Paper and Gilding' at the Waimarino Art Awards.
Have fun experimenting with hot wax, metallic wax, gilding metal and stitch to create rich, textured surfaces. Using everyday papers — bags, old books, music scores, catalogues and wrappings — alongside any special handmade or decorative papers you may have, you will transform simple materials into something unexpected in this 2 hour quick workshop.
28 November. Time for Tea at Selwyn College, Auckland, NZ
Use unusual materials such as tea bags and paper to create surfaces for stitch and embellishments.
29 November. Embossed metal for textile art at Selwyn College, Auckland, NZ
Experiment with metal as a surface for textile-based work. You’ll learn how to emboss patterns into lightweight metal, apply alcohol inks for colour, and combine fabrics, threads, and beads to build rich surfaces.
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'just fabulous! from start to finish, learnt so much.
Alysn is a genius!'
(karen)
'Alysn is an inspiration. I'm going home with a head full of ideas'
(sonja)
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