It is always advisable to check with the event website or organisers before visiting any of the exhibitions / events listed here.
Note: Events are ordered by their end dates.
Textiles Today? Three Generations of Artist Weavers takes a wide-ranging view of contemporary weaving, exploring experimental, thoughtful and unexpected responses to warp and weft. It brings together modern approaches to the fine-art tradition of high-warp tapestry, including work by Edinburgh-based Jo Barker and from the Estate of Mary Farmer.
The exhibition is anchored by the exceptional career of Ann Sutton, the UK’s most senior textile designer and recent recipient of the Worshipful Company of Weavers’ Lifetime Achievement Medal. Her practice moves between industrial design and radical art installations, as demonstrated by her 2022 solo exhibition at the New Art Centre, Roche Court. We will show a recent wall piece alongside newly archived design samples and early artworks.
Venue: Fen Ditton Gallery, 23 High Street, Fen Ditton, Cambridge CB5 8ST
New work by eight contemporary artists combined with historic textiles from the Whitworth’s collection, tracing connections, the passing on of skills and how the results change with time.
Venue: The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ERAn international showcase of contemporary fibre and textile art.
Call for submissions opening on 1 December 2025 and closing on 17 January 2026.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, CanadaA range of workshops and other learning opportunities throughout the year. See website for further details.
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Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ETWeekend workshops, residential courses and more advanced programmes tailored to the needs of beginners and those with more experience seeking to develop their practice.
https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/
Website: https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/See website for further details.
Venue: National Conference Centre, Coventry Road, Solihull, B92 0EJGairloch Museum are delighted to be welcoming in “Forgotten Fleece Tales” as their final exhibition for 2026.
The exhibition is open Wednesdays to Saturdays and features a curated collection of works made using “waste” or “unwanted” organic Scottish fleece, and by-products of industrial fleece processing. The theme of “forgotten” fleece will bind the pieces together in the form of a unique piece of short fiction written for each creation by folklorist and writer Alicia Anne Adams.
Venue: Gairloch Museum, Gairloch, Ross-shire, IV21 2BHAngie Parker will lead a one-day cushion weaving workshop at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. £185
Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP
Devon Weavers Workshop offers a choice of three new 6-day weaving workshops in 2027 for beginners, spread over two weekends each at a cost of £350. They will cover all the stages in getting started, from warp winding, on to loom dressing and then weaving.
10 – 12 & 15 – 17 January 2027, or
9 – 11 & 16 – 18 April 2027, or
10 – 12 & 16 – 18 July 2027
Venue: Unit 8 & 9 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DYThe 2027 Summer School of the Association of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers will be held from August 15 – 22 at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
Venue: Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6JS