Events

Silk Day with Angela Pawlyn Morning: have a go at making "paper" from silk cocoon strippings using the natural gum in the silk. Afternoon: short talk on "Silk Variations" using handling packs, covering difference between reeled and spun...

A History of Witney Blankets talk with Keith Crawford A talk on the processes, the history and the people of this famous local industry. Keith Crawford is a descendant of the Early blanket-making family, and worked for the...

Have-a-go Day: Needle Felting with Catharine Smith and Caroline Goss. We will be showing you how to use a special kind of needle to felt a 3D sheep face onto a base which can be used to decorate a...

Festive Christmas meeting! Don't forget to bring in your entries for the Chair's Challenge!

'Threads of the Indus' - a talk by Seher Mirza. The creative process and the experience of making is personal to each of us; it generates meaning in different ways. This hybrid research project and social business initiative...

Talk by Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft & Design.

Workshop 'An introduction to Dyeing' with Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft & Design. Suitable for beginner to expert, the workshop begins with making sample cards to develop skills in immersion dyeing, hue/saturation and colour blending. All participants will take...

AGM  Plus Show of Work and afternoon tea.

Nalebinding talk plus have-a-go day, with Pauline Shelley. Pauline will give a short talk explaining what Nalebinding is and its history. She will explain how she discovered Nalebinding, and what it is that attracted her to it. Participants...

UK Traditional Sheep Breeds: a brief history and their fleeces. In May we have Shaun Smith of Harcourt Rare Breeds coming to talk to us all about 'UK Traditional Sheep Breeds: a brief history and their fleeces.' Shaun...