Using examples of work by Julia and a selection of their own inspirational photographs as a starting point, students will experiment with a diverse range of fabric manipulation techniques. These will include wrapping and binding, entrapment and hand couching to create colourful, textural, mixed media pieces inspired by close-up details seen in landscapes and coastal areas. We will work with mixed natural fabrics to create structural fabric forms which can then be combined and hand stitched onto backing fabrics to begin a more resolved composition or remain as a series of separate samples.

No previous experience is needed

Student Materials list

Resource packs of pre-dyed mixed fabrics will be available to buy at the event for £12, these are entirely optional. Otherwise students can bring fabrics and threads in their chosen colour palette- recycling and re-purposing found fabrics, off cuts, yarns and threads is very much encouraged.

Eg- distressed/worn/torn fabrics, cut up old clothes, bedsheets, tea towels, scraps of string/twine/yarns, tangled left-overs

All participants will need

• 2-3 reels of sewing machine threads to suit their chosen colour palette

• hand sewing needles

• scissors

• 2-3 small pieces of finer fabric (silk, muslin, scrim, ramie, organdie, thin linen etc)

• a selection of small pieces of different fabrics (see suggestions above)

• a small piece of wadding/old cushion stuffing

Social media Links

Website- http://www.juliawright.co.uk

Facebook- Julia Wright Jewellery & Textiles

Instagram- @julia_._wright

This is a two day workshop