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Images and Narrative: Restructured Books, Maps & Text - SOLD OUT
Saturday 18 September - Sold Out (waiting list only)
with Cas Holmes
In this workshop, you will use old books, maps and printed materials as a starting point to create a new work. The book/map you use will direct the content and processes from layering and cutting techniques through to stitch, dye and print. You will look at making small personal works with narrative, meaning, heart and humour. Cas will demonstrate many low-tech methods for transforming raw materials and found objects into textile art. Simple drawings, cutting, pasting, stitching and collage will be the primary tactics to turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Cost: £50 (£45 concessions & Friends of Farfield) - or £90 (£80) if booked with Cas Holmes' workshop, Text, Paper & Image, on Sun 19 Sept
Text, Paper and Image
Sunday 19 September
with Cas Holmes
During this workshop, you will explore text and image as a means of visual communication. Working on paper and limited fabric scraps, the course looks at the use of found materials for rubbings, stenciling, print and the use of text, image and writing both as a design element and as a means for informing work and developing new ideas. You’ll explore ideas relating to personal collections and memorabilia as a starting point for developing themes.
Cost: £50 (£45 concessions & Friends of Farfield) - or £90 (£80) if booked with Cas Holmes' workshop, Images and Narrative: Restructured Books, Maps & Text, on Sat 18 Sept
Rags to Riches: a Contemporary Approach to Rag Rugs
Saturday 16 October
with Lynne Stein
During this one-day workshop, you will learn and use hooked and prodded rag rug techniques, as well as seeing demonstrations and samples of other related and compatible textile techniques to include within your work. There will be an emphasis during the day upon creating sample areas, and lots of experimental work. You may also work on a specific project, and perhaps incorporate some of these ideas. The workshop is suitable for beginners as well as those with more experience.
Cost: £70 (£63 Concessions and Friends of Farfield). Equipment and materials for the workshop are specified in the 'Information for Participants' - if these are purchased from the tutor, they need to be ordered before 2 October (through Farfield Mill).
Creative Contemporary Knitting
Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October
with Ruth Lee
During this hands-on, practical workshop, you'll work towards producing small sculptural pieces of textile artwork which could be framed and wall hung, or displayed in an outdoor environment. You will knit around small pieces of either natural form or man-made objects (or both) using knitting to make changes to the appearance of that object – revealing some or all or none of the object’s true identity. We will be knitting from first principles, ditching the pattern, and working with any number of yarns, fibres and other flexible linear materials.
"Think of it as taking the yarns and fibres for a 'creative walk' using knitting needles, working in the same way you would if you were making a drawing or collage from scratch. Free form creative knitting, with structure and a purpose." Ruth Lee
Cost: £90 (£80 concessions & Friends of Farfield)
Machine Embroidery and Mixed Media Textiles (beginners)
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 November
with Chris Macadie and Helen McKenna
Two years ago, Chris and Helen joined up to deliver the University of Cumbria’s Machine Embroidery & Mixed Media course at Farfield Mill. Since then, they have regularly offered machine embroidery workshops, including Making a Hard-Backed Book, Greetings Cards and Decorative Boxes.
This workshop is aimed at all those who want to go back to basics - to learn the techniques (and the tips) for successful machine embroidery.
Cost: £70 (£63 concessions & Friends of Farfield)
Cold Enamel and Resin in Jewellery Making
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February 2011
with Clare John
During this workshop, Clare John will be showing how to add brilliant colour to jewellery using different resins and cold enamels with no need for expensive equipment. On the first day, you will learn how to mix resin accurately and safely, apply it as cold enamel, embed photos and pictures and experiment with different ways of colouring resin. On the second day, you will cast resin into a one-part mould, add more layers of colour, add a domed layer to the first pieces and discuss the use of gel resin in rings.
Clare John has been making jewellery since graduating in 1976 from Middlesex Polytechnic and has been teaching and demonstrating resin for six years.
"I love adding vibrant colour to jewellery and resin is now so easy and safe to use - it has changed so much since I first used it. There are fantastic new special effect resins which can create wonderful pieces. Every time I teach a workshop, I'm thrilled with the work that participants create." Clare John
Cost: £75 (£67.50 concessions & Friends of Farfield) + materials (approx. £8)
KEY INFORMATION
Duration Workshops run 10.30am to 4.30pm - and you can usually gain access to set up from 10am.
Location Workshops are held in our dedicated Education Room on Level 2, or in the Bainside Studio on Level 4.
Lunch You can buy a delicious lunch made on the premises using local produce in Weavers Café (with viewing window into the Weaving Room). Alternatively, you can bring a packed lunch to eat in the workshop room (we would ask you not to eat your packed lunch in the Café, please).
Drinks Fresh coffee and tea is available for you to make throughout the day in the kitchen adjacent to your workshop space.
Accommodation If you are staying over, there are many delightful B&Bs and guest houses in Sedbergh and the surrounding area - contact Sedbergh Tourist Information Centre online or call 015396 20125.
How to book Please call 015396 21958 to reserve your place and request a booking form and information, or email us here, stating clearly which workshop you are interested in. Your place on the workshop will be confirmed on receipt of your completed booking form and payment.
