NEW! The Fabric of Life: Mixed-Media Tapestry Weaving
Starts 4 Jun 2025 | 3 weeks | Full Day
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Tutor - Sara Easby
Wednesdays, 10am-3pm | 3 weeks
Starts Wednesday 4 June 2025
Inspired by the RWA's Soft Power exhibition, draw on your own memories, experiences and imagination to create a deeply personal and meaningful mixed-media textile piece. In the studio, on week 1, explore words, images and mark-making to create hand-painted fabrics and textile compatible papers to then tear into strips to be used as yarn, embracing the processes of deconstruction and regeneration.
During weeks 2 and 3, combine your hand-made yarns with recycled materials and other fabric yarns, as you learn various tapestry techniques, such as twinning, knotting and basic weaving. The process will result in a small abstract tapestry weaving, containing and concealed within it your personal story – the fabric of your life.
Please bring along a personal object to the first session to use as a starting point to inspire drawing and painting on fabric and papers. We recommend bringing your own fabric scissors to the sessions.
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