Fashion & Textile Museum Adult Craft Workshops
Learn to knit or Decorate Ceramics at FTM Masterclasses
Nov 4, 2009
London's Fashion and Textile Museum is currently hosting a fascinating exhibition of the work of two outstanding British designers, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin.
During the 1960s Foale and Tuffin were two of the most well-known trend setters in British design. The exhibition looks at how these two designers influenced sixties fashions.
To complement the exhibition the Fashion and Textile Museum is offering a programme of talks, workshops and masterclasses. Visitors will be able to meet the artists and work with them, and other designer/teachers, to create their own hand-knitted items or decorated ceramics.
Fashion and Textile Museum – Workshops
Knit Your Own Handbag
During this two-day workshop participants will turn to the Foale and Tuffin exhibition to seek inspiration. They will explore various designs and techniques for making hand-knitted handbags using simple stitches under the guidance of teacher and designer Anne Saunders.
- Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th November 2009. 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. £100 including materials.
Perfect Purses
Create a new purse for yourself, or as a special gift. Participants on this one-day workshop will design and create a framed purse. Attendees are welcome to take along fabrics, beads, sequins and embroidery threads that they would like to utilise.
- Saturday 14th November 2009. 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. £50 including materials.
Festive Fascinators – Hand-Crafted Headwear
Those who remember the wartime motto 'Make Do and Mend' will find this one-day workshop fascinating.
Milliner Mary Jane Baxter will help participants create personalised designer headwear using a pre-made base together with odds and ends, recycled bits and pieces, vintage buttons, feathers, beads and anything else they can find.
- Saturday 21st November 2009. 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. £50 including materials and entrance to the exhibition.
Embroidery Workshops
Naomi Ryder, a leading textile designer and illustrator, will share her expertise with participants on this one-day workshop.
Course members will learn how to personalise clothing and other items using both hand and machine embroidery techniques.
- Saturday 16th January 2010. 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. £50 including materials.
Ceramics Masterclass
In the 1960s Sally Tuffin was renowned for her innovative fashion designs. She has since branched out into ceramics, designing for Poole Pottery, Moorcroft and Dennis Chinaworks, the business she set up with her husband Richard Dennis.
On this one-day masterclass Sally, and her team of artists, will help participants decorate a vase. Finished items will be sent to course members after firing in the kilns at Dennis Chinaworks.
- Thursday 21st January 2010. 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. £125 including materials.
Marion Foale – Knitting Masterclass
Marion Foale is renowned for her fashionable knitwear and during this session she will tell her story from her early partnership with Sally Tuffin to the three-dimensional tailored knitwear she produces today.
- Friday 29th January 2010 , 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. £12 / £9 concessions. Price includes a glass of wine.
The Wool Pack – Knitting Club
This is a six-week knitting club for people with little or no knitting experience. Basic techniques and simple stitches will be taught and club members will be encouraged to take part in a class project so that each member will have a finished item at the end of six weeks.
Materials – club members must provide their own yarns and needles for project work during weeks two to six. Basic materials will be supplied for week one only.
- Wednesday evenings, 28th October – 2nd December 2009. 6.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. £110.
Advance booking is essential for all courses as places are limited.
Free tours and more activities for adults and children are outlined in Fashion and Textile Museum – Free Tours
http://specialartgalleryexhibits.suite101.com/article.cfm/fashion_and_textile_museum_free_tours
The exhibition Foale and Tuffin – Made in England, will be on show until 24th February 2010. Further information about the exhibition and related events can be obtained from the Fashion and Textile Museum.
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