Garden Obelisk Workshop at Thorngrove Garden Centre in Gillingham
By Green Spiral Willow
Make an impressive 6ft-tall garden obelisk from willow, you can choose from different natural willow colours to make your obelisk truly individual. Cake and hot drink provided, please bring your own lunch. We will be working outside so please dress for the weather.
Polish Asymmetric Basket Workshop at Thorngrove Garden Centre in Gillingham
By Green Spiral Willow
Make this unusual Polish basket using English willow. You will be able to choose your own combination of willows making your basket truly individual. During the day you will learn several key weaving techniques and find out how the willow is grown, harvested and processed The course is suitable for beginners or improvers. Refreshments included. Please bring your own lunch.
Willow lunch bag/handbag Workshop at Thorngrove Garden Centre in Gillingham
By Green Spiral Willow
Make this beautiful sunhat from English rush. Rush is soft on your hands to work with and has a multitude of different shades of green, brown and yellow making your hat very individual. During the day you will learn how the rush is grown, harvested and processed. No experience necessary, refreshments provided please bring your own lunch.
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Show all 78Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving - A Beginners Guide
By Elka
'An Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving' is a self-paced online course which will teach you everything you need to know to get set up and weaving from the comfort of your home. The course will guide you through materials and equipment, how to set up your loom for weaving, basic weaving techniques including techniques for creating texture, finishing and trouble shooting. On enrolment you gain lifetime access to the course.
Frame Loom Weaving - A Comprehensive Guide to Becoming a Weaver
By Elka
'Frame Loom Weaving - A Comprehensive Guide to Becoming a Weaver' is a self-paced online course which will teach you everything you need to know to become a confident weaver from the comfort of your home. The course will guide you through materials and equipment, how to set up your loom for weaving, ten different weaving techniques and all their variations including rya knots, soumak, pile weave, pick & pick, weaving circles and many more, finishing and trouble shooting. On enrolment you gain lifetime access to the course and our Facebook support group, exclusively for students enrolled on the course, where you can seek advice in a supportive, creative environment.
Paper Weaving & Yarn Wrapping Workshop
By Lark & Bower
Learn how to make beautiful paper woven greetings cards, with Sarah Ward via Zoom
Weaving the Threads: Braided narrative, memoir and poetry
By Rachel Godfrey
“Weaving the threads” is a twelve-week course which gives participants the opportunity to develop a coherent body of work through a range of expressive creative writing activities. For some, this might mean developing a memoir, for others it might be a collection of poems, or an extended piece of fiction. Participants may also choose to treat the course as a series of one-off sessions.
Have you always been intrigued by dreamcatchers and want to learn the art of weaving your own, or do you know someone who loves them and want to gift them one? This ancient art is has gone through a lot of morphism and yet the old techniques are still here as always. Learn to weave a traditional dreamcatcher.
