Diary

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.

Current events

Until 02 Dec 2023

Bernat Klein: Influence & Inspiration

Showcasing new ideas developed by contemporary practitioners whose work builds upon Klein’s legacy in design, visual arts, and architecture, presented together with original examples of his design and artistic practice.

Free

Time: 10.00 – 17.00

Venue: V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ
Website: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson
Until 06 Dec 2023

Learn to weave beginners’ course

From dressing a table loom to weaving in six evenings.

Tutor: Jessica Becker

Cost: £195

Venue: 22 Sanquhar Terrace, Forres, IV36 1DH, Moray, Scotland
Website: https://studioweef.com/
Until 15 Dec 2023

Intermediate weaving course

The course will take you through the weaving process from designing and making a warp to dressing the dobby loom and weaving a final project piece.

Tutor: Agnis Smallwood

Times:10am – 1pm for six Fridays from 10th November.

Cost: £295

Venue: Sunny Bank Mills, 83-85 Town St, Farsley, Pudsey, LS28 5UJ
Website: https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/calendar/category/courses-and-workshops/
Until 17 Dec 2023

World of Threads Festival

An exhibition of local, national & international contemporary fibre art.

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Website: http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/
Until 20 Dec 2023

Igshaan Adams – Primêre Wentelbaan

Igshaan Adams was born in 1982, in Cape Town, South Africa. His cross-disciplinary practice combines weaving, sculpture, performance and installation to explore ideas of personal and political history, race, religion and sexuality.
Venue: Thomas Dane Gallery, 3 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1
Website: https://website-artlogicwebsite0087.artlogic.net/viewing-room/51-igshaan-adams-primere-wentelbaan/
Until 07 Jan 2024

Woven / Unwoven

A major new exhibition of artworks by Laura Thomas that represents a distillation of all of Laura’s areas of interest in working with thread, making both woven and non-woven works.

Venue: Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB
Website: http://ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
Until 07 Jan 2024

Laura Thomas – Woven / Unwoven

‘Thread is a powerful metaphor, a material laden with symbolism and a basis for a craft language understood the world over’.
An exhibition representing a distillation of Laura Thomas’ areas of interest in working with thread, making both woven and unwoven works.

Open: Tues–Sun 10am–5.30pm

Free

Venue: Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB
Website: http://ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/whats-on/gallery-1-2-3/
Until 14 Jan 2024

Tartan

A radical new look at one of the world’s best-known textiles.  Tartan celebrates the global story of a unique pattern, and how the rules of the grid have inspired creativity from the everyday to the sublime.

Open daily except Tuesday, 10.00 – 17.00

Advance booking is recommended.

Venue: V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ
Website: http://https://vam.ac.uk/dundee/exhibitions/tartan
Until 01 Feb 2024

Theo Moorman Trust Biennial Grants

The deadline for applications for grants from the Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers is February 1st 2024. Applicants need to have at least two and a half years experience after completing higher education, and live and work in the UK. Full criteria and details of how to apply: www.theomoormantrust.org.uk

Website: https://www.theomoormantrust.org.uk/how-to-apply
Until 04 Feb 2024

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

Textile designer, weaver, and color authority Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) helped shape American tastes in areas from interiors and transportation to industrial design, fashion, and film. This exhibition, including textiles, textile samples, fashion, furniture, documents, and photographs, reveals the scope of her achievements and adds a new thread to the story of mid-century modernism.

Venue: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st St, New York.
Website: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/dorothy-liebes/
Until 24 Feb 2024

Lineages: curated by Greta Bertram & Chloe Akera

No maker stands in isolation: skills are learned, and skills are passed on; traditions are inherited, and transmitted to future generations. Makers respond to what has gone before, to the world around them, and to the future. Lineages will explore some of the threads which run through the Crafts Study Centre’s collections, connecting makers and their practices, past and present.

The exhibition to end February focusses on Textiles and Wood.

Venue: Crafts Study Centre Falkner Road Farnham, Surrey GU9
Website: https://www.csc.uca.ac.uk/programme/lineages
Until 01 Mar 2024

Heallreaf 5: call for entries

Heallreaf 5, the international biennial exhibition of tapestry weaving, will take place in four venues in 2024 – 2025:

29 June 2024 – 29 August 2024   Weston Park, Shropshire
10 – 22 September 2024   Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester (tbc)
November – December 2024  The Morley Gallery, London (tbc)
8 January 2025 –  6 March 2025   Farfield Mill, Cumbria.

The deadline for entries is 1 March 2024.  For further details see website.

Website: https://www.heallreaf.com/
Until 03 Mar 2024

The Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit

This exhibition explores printed propaganda textiles over more than two centuries, from the French Revolution to Brexit.

Times: Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00.

Venue: Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Website: https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitions/andy-warhol-the-textiles
Until 17 Mar 2024

Flight

An exhibition of tapestry and woven cloth exploring our relationship with butterflies and moths. A collaboration between weavers from Darlington Weaving Rooms and Northern members of the British Tapestry Group.

Venue: Preston Park Museum, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3RH
Website: https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/
Until 31 Mar 2024

Beguiling Beni: Safflower Red in Japanese Fashion

A display revealing the many uses of the Japanese dye ‘beni’, made from safflower petals, including textiles and ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Admission: Free

Venue: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
Website: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/beguiling-beni-safflower-red-in-japanese-fashion
Until 07 Apr 2024

Material Power
 – Palestinian Embroidery

The ancient practice of embroidery, called tatreez in Arabic, is the most important cultural material of Palestine. Material Power charts the evolution of embroidery in Palestine over the past century , including work by contemporary artists.

Venue: The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Website: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcomingexhibitions/materialpower/
Until 07 Apr 2024

Is it alive?

‘Is it alive?’ features textile installations that come to life thanks to technology including ‘I am Storm’,  the result of research into self-supporting woven structures using metal threads on a computer-controlled Jaquard loom.

Venue: Textiel Museum, Goirkestraat 96, 5046 GN Tilburg, Netherlands
Website: https://textielmuseum.nl/en/tentoonstellingen/is-it-alive/
Until 14 Apr 2024

Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles

Hilary Bourne (1909 – 2004) and Barbara Allen (1903 – 1972) were two of the most significant UK textile designers of the modernist period, designing and making fabrics for sectors including fashion, intereiors, film and aviation.

Venue: Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft, Lodge Hill Lane, Ditchling, East Sussex, BN6 8SP
Website: https://www.ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk/
Until 02 Jul 2024

Print: A Passion for Pattern

The Macclesfield Silk Museums have a unique collection of textiles, pattern books and items associated with creating print for fabrics, especially on silk. This new exhibition presents many of these items together for the first time to show how textiles were designed and to explore historic methods including block printing.

Venue: Macclesfield
Website: http://macclesfieldmuseums.co.uk/people-print-and-pattern
Until 17 Jul 2024

The Loom Shed Natural Dye Study Group

Four online study group sessions (20th September 2023, 24th January, 24th. April and 17th July 2024) meeting seasonally to explore weld, madder, Saxon blue and overdyeing.

Led by Jane Deane.

Time: 7.30pm – 9pm.

Cost: £126.

Website: https://theloomshed.com/
Until 14 Aug 2024

Weave your own rug/wall hanging: James Donald

An opportunity to weave your own rug or wall hanging on a pre-warped 8 shaft Finnish-made Toika floor loom, with support from James Donald.

Times: Tuesdays and/or Thursday evenings, 6pm – 9pm.

Cost: initial 4 week block £120 (thereafter £25 per session as required).

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
Until 16 Sep 2024

Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto

The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today.

Closing date not yet published.

Check website for booking details and closing date.

Venue: V&A Kensington, London
Website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/gabrielle-chanel-fashion-manifesto
Until 30 Sep 2024

Freedom: International Weaving group

The International Weaving group presents its second virtual exhibition with highly personal responses with the theme ‘Freedom’, featuring work by weavers from Sweden, UK, Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands.

A guided tour can be found here:  https://www.artsteps.com/view/63b6cc430049f1b7328b7dd5

Website: http://www.weven.eu
Until 17 Oct 2024

Bees: International Weaving Group

A call for entries for the 3rd on-line exhibition of the International Weaving Group, on the theme of Bees, that will open in April 2024.

Broad interpretations welcomed.  For more information contact exhibition@weefnetwerk.nl.

Entry deadline 29 November 2023.

Until 31 Dec 2024

Evening weave classes with James Donald

This course offers one-to-one tuition, with access to an extensive range of specialist textile literature. All materials and equipment are provided, and the class is suitable for both beginners and those with previous weave experience.

Contact James Donald for availability.

Times: Tuesday or Thursday evenings, 6pm – 9pm.

Cost: £330 (11 classes).

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
Until 31 Dec 2024

KUMIHIMO: Japanese Silk Braiding virtual exhibition

An online tour of the recent exhibition at Japan House, London, exploring the Japanese art of kumihimo, an intricate, decorative braided cord.

Venue: Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
Website: http://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/2023/kumihimo-japanese-silk-braiding-by-domyo/
Until 31 Dec 2024

Design for Weave – Laura Thomas

A self-directed online course created by designer/weaver Laura Thomas.  Suitable for those with existing weaving knowledge who want to build their design understanding and confidence.

Cost: £125

Venue: https://www.laurathomas.co.uk/designforweave
Until 15 Nov 2025

Haptic & Hue- podcast

A series of podcasts exploring the way in which cloth speaks to us and the impact it has on our lives.

https://hapticandhue.com/

Website: http://hapticandhue.com/

Future events

01 Dec 2023

Beneath the Surface: Bernat Klein

A symposium draws on speakers from a range of backgrounds backgrounds to illuminate Bernat Klein’s practice spanning design, art and architecture, and his enduring influence today.

Cost: £12 (concessions £6)

Time: 10.00 – 16.30

Venue: V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ
Website: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson
01 - 02 Dec 2023

Wiltshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers – Christmas Craft Fair

A Christmas sale of members’ hand crafted work.

Venue: St Mary's School Buildings, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire BA 14 6EU
Website: https://www.wiltshireguildswd.org
06 Dec 2023

Nearly Wild Weaving – Tapestry Together 30

An ongoing series of interactive online sessions providing an opportunity to explore an aspect tapestry weaving: Shape and Line in Tapestry

Facilitated by Irene Evison and Anna Wetherell of Nearly Wild Weaving.

Time: either 2.30pm or 7pm UK time.

See website for further info and to to book a place.

Venue: Online
Website: https://nearlywildweaving.wordpress.com/
10 Dec 2023

Winter Patterns tapestry weaving workshop with Anna Wetherell

With Winter settling in, come and explore the patterns and textures in trees, sky and water and create a small woven tapestry inspired by the landscape around the Mill.  Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Tutor:  Anna Weatherell

Time: 10am – 4pm.

Cost: £60 plus £5 to be paid to the tutor.

Venue: Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW
Website: https://www.farfieldmill.org/whats-on/workshops/
10 Dec 2023

Winter Patterns Tapestry Weaving

Explore the patterns and textures in trees, sky and water and create a small woven tapestry inspired by the winter landscape around the Mill.

Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Tutor: Anna Wetherell

Cost: £60 plus £5 to be paid to the tutor

Venue: Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5LW
Website: http://www.farfieldmill.org/whats-on/workshops/
13 Dec 2023

Nearly Wild Weaving – Troubleshooting Tapestry 7

An ongoing series of interactive online sessions providing an opportunity to discuss any issues we are coming across in our tapestry weaving with the aim of helping each other find solutions for practical weaving problems.

Facilitated by Irene Evison and Anna Wetherell of Nearly Wild Weaving.

Time:  7pm UK time.

See website for further info and to to book a place.

Venue: Online
Website: https://nearlywildweaving.wordpress.com/
23 Dec 2023

Weave together – adults

This workshop has been designed for you and a friend to work together on a small project such as a cushion cover. You will be sharing a loom throughout the workshop and working collaboratively.

Tutor: Agnis Smallwood

Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: £95 plus booking fee
 

Venue: Twisting Gallery Studios, 83-85 Town Street, Farsley, LS28 5UJ
Website: http://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk
13 - 14 Jan 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
19 Jan 2024

Waltham Abbey Wool Show

See website for details.

Website: https://www.walthamabbeywoolshow.co.uk/
19 - 21 Jan 2024

Krokbragd for Rugs and Upholstery

Learn to warp up and weave this weft-faced Scandinavian technique.

Tutor: Angie Parker

Cost: £315

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
20 - 21 Jan 2024

Introduction to tapestry weaving

An introduction to the basic skills involved in creating a woven tapestry, from warping up a simple frame loom to exploring flat woven techniques, creating shapes, lines and playing with colour.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

Time: 10am- 4pm

Cost: £215

Venue: Studio 114, WASPS Studio, Patriothall, Edinburgh, EH3 5AY
Website: https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/introduction-to-tapestry-weaving-2nd-3rd-september-2023/
03 - 04 Feb 2024

Indigo Dyeing and Weaving

A workshop accompanying the current exhibition ‘Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles’.

The first day will involve indigo dyeing which will then be woven on the second day of the workshop, on a frame loom.

Tutor: Poppy Fuller Abbott (whose work appears in the exhibition).

Cost: £180

Venue: Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, Lodge Hill Lane, Ditchling, East Sussex, BN6 8SP
Website: http://www.ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk/event/museum-dye-garden-tours/
04 - 07 Feb 2024

Get weaving!

Explore the use of colour and texture, how to dress a loom, and how to read pattern draft. Suitable for both absolute beginners and
developing weavers.

Tutor: Jan Beadle

Cost: Residential £365 , non-residential £255. Yarns £15 purchasable from tutor.

Venue: Higham Hall College, Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 9SH
Website: https://highamhall.com/course/get-weaving/
10 - 11 Feb 2024

Online Passementerie Masterclass

Taught live through Zoom with a small group of students. Using simple equipment and materials, you will create 4 different hand woven passementerie designs in the form of a sampler.

Tutor: Elizabeth Ashdown

Cost: £160.00

Time: 4:00pm – 7:15 pm UK time

Venue: Online
Website: https://elizabethashdown.co.uk
10 - 11 Feb 2024

Tapestry texture

Explore a range of techniques to create surface and texture in tapestry weaving.  Suitable for beginners and developing weavers.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

Time: 10am – 4pm

Cost: £215

Venue: WASPS, Studio 114, Patriothall, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY
Website: https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/
10 - 11 Feb 2024

Textiles East Fair

Time: 10:30am – 5pm

Venue: The Burgess Hall, One Leisure, Westwood Rd, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6WU
Website: https://textileseastfair.wordpress.com/
10 - 11 Feb 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
16 Feb 2024

Weave a cushion workshop

Weave a cushion panel on a 50cm wide four shaft table loom.  No sewing required.

Tutor: Angie Parker

Cost: £80 (plus £3.95 booking fee)

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Venue: Creative Space, 56-58 North St., Bristol Southville, Bristol BS3 1HJ
Website: http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/workshops/
17 Feb 2024

Weave a cushion workshop

Weave a cushion panel on a 50cm wide four shaft table loom.  No sewing required.

Tutor: Angie Parker

Cost: £80 (plus £3.95 booking fee)

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Venue: Creative Space, 56-58 North St., Bristol Southville, Bristol BS3 1HJ
Website: http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/workshops/
18 - 23 Feb 2024

Introduction to tapestry weaving

A residential tapestry weaving holiday (4 days tuition). For more information and booking see Gartmore House website.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/

Venue: Gartmore Estate, Stirling, FK8 3RS
Website: http://www.gartmorehouse.com/craft-courses/tapestry-weaving-classes-near-me-uk/
24 Feb 2024

Winter workshop – Indigo Dyeing

Spend the day dyeing an indigo scarf
 using stitched Shibori techniques
.

Tutors: Jeanette and Ellie Orrell.

Cost: £79

Venue: Oriel Davies Gallery, The Park, Newtown, Powys, UK, SY16 2NZ
Website: https://orieldavies.org/whats-on
24 Feb 2024

Weaving Voices – Innovation and Adaptation in the Textile Industry

A talk by Alison Wibner exploring samples from the Sunny Bank Mills archive dating between 1942-1945, including examples of experimentation with ground-breaking wool fibre blends incorporating man-made fibres. Following the talk there will be an opportunity to visit the rest of the Archive.

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Cost  £5 plus booking fee.

Venue: Sunny Bank Mills Archive, Water Lane, Farsley, LS28 5UJ
Website: https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk
23 - 25 Feb 2024

Unravel

For urther details and tickets see website.

Venue: Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR
Website: https://farnhammaltings.com/artists-and-makers/craft/festivals/unravel
23 - 25 Feb 2024

Unravel

See website for futher information.

Venue: Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7QR
Website: https://farnhammaltings.com/artists-and-makers/craft/festivals/unravel
17 Oct 2023 - 25 Feb 2024

Water’s Edge

An exhibition by Ros Hornbuckle, who spins and dyes the yarns she weaves with.

Venue: Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey LL77 7TQ
Website: https://www.orielmon.org/
10 - 25 Feb 2024

Devon Weavers Workshop Beginners’ course

A six-day beginners’ course.

Dates: 10th- 11th, 17th-18th and 24th-25th February 2024.

Cost: £350

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
02 - 03 Mar 2024

A line in weave

How to weave a variety of marks and lines, from clean sharp edges to soft broken lines. Suitable for beginners and developing weavers.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

Time: 10am – 4pm

Cost: £215

Venue: WASPS, Studio 114, Patriothall, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY
Website: https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/
09 - 10 Mar 2024

Spinners’ Intermediate

A two-day workshop for intermediate spinners.

Cost: £95.

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
09 - 10 Mar 2024

East Anglia Yarn Festival

See website for further information.

Venue: The Norfolk Showground Arena, NR5 0TT
Website: http://www.eastangliayarnfestival.com
08 - 10 Mar 2024

Dornoch Fibre Fest

Classes for all levels of experience, yarn sales and more. See website for further information.

Venue: Dornoch, Sutherland
Website: http://www.fibrefest.org.uk/
15 Mar 2024

Weave a cushion workshop

Weave a cushion panel on a 50cm wide four shaft table loom.  No sewing required.

Tutor: Angie Parker

Cost: £80 (plus £3.95 booking fee)

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Venue: Creative Space, 56-58 North St., Bristol Southville, Bristol BS3 1HJ
Website: http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/workshops/
16 Mar 2024

Weave a cushion workshop

Weave a cushion panel on a 50cm wide four shaft table loom.  No sewing required.

Tutor: Angie Parker

Cost: £80 (plus £3.95 booking fee)

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Venue: Creative Space, 56-58 North St., Bristol Southville, Bristol BS3 1HJ
Website: http://www.angieparkertextiles.com/workshops/
13 Jan 2024 - 17 Mar 2024

Crossing the warp – thread by thread

This exhibition, by six handweavers who studied at the Handweavers Studio and Gallery in London, celebrates hand weaving as a complement to the power looms at Whitchurch Silk Mill.

This exhibition is included in the cost of entry.

Venue: Whitchurch Silk Mill, 28 Winchester Street, Whitchurch, RG28 7A
Website: http://whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk
15 - 17 Mar 2024

Weaving with Colour Theory 

A three-day workshop led by Margo Selby.

Cost: £340.

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
15 - 17 Mar 2024

Colour Theory in Weaving

A workshop designed to develop thinking about colour in the context of weaving.

Tutor: Margo Selby

Cost: £330

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
17 - 22 Mar 2024

Introduction to tapestry weaving

A residential tapestry weaving holiday (4 days tuition). For more information and booking see Gartmore House website.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/

Venue: Gartmore Estate, Stirling, FK8 3RS
Website: http://www.gartmorehouse.com/craft-courses/tapestry-weaving-classes-near-me-uk/
23 Mar 2024

The Scottish Wool Producers’ Showcase

The Scottish Wool Producers’ Showcase shines a spotlight on yarns with a distinctly Scottish origin and their makers.

Time: 11am – 4pm

Cost: £9

Venue: Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth, PH2 0TH
Website: https://thescottishyarnfestival.com/
23 - 24 Mar 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
21 - 24 Mar 2024

The Stitch Festival

Venue: The Business Design Centre, London, N1 0QH
Website: https://www.thestitchfestival.co.uk/
29 Mar 2024

Fernhill Farm – Good Friday Fleece Sale

A range of whole and part fleeces, sample boxes etc. from a variety of breeds (including lustre fleeces) plus shearing demonstrations.

Time: 9am – 4pm

Venue: Fernhill Farm Cheddar Road, Compton Martin, Bristol, BS40 6LD
Website: https://www.fernhill-farm.co.uk/fernhill-farm-events/GOOD%20FRIDAY%20FLEECE%20SALE
10 Feb 2024 - 07 Apr 2024

Laura Thomas- Woven/Unwoven

Makers Guild Wales hosts this exhibition of woven textiles by one of its members.

For further information and updates on artist’s talks and weave workshops see website.

Woven/Unwoven is a Ruthin Craft Centre-initiated exhibition.

Venue: Craft in the Bay, The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff  CF10 4QH
Website: https://www.makersguildinwales.org.uk/exhibitions.html
06 - 07 Apr 2024

Spring into Wool

See website for further information.

Venue: The Grammar School at Leeds, Alwoodley Gates, Harrogate Road, Leeds LS17 8GS
Website: http://www.springintowool.co.uk/
13 - 14 Apr 2024

Online Passementerie Masterclass

Taught live through Zoom with a small group of students. Using simple equipment and materials, you will create 4 different hand woven passementerie designs in the form of a sampler.

Tutor: Elizabeth Ashdown

Cost: £160.00

Time: 4:00pm – 7:15 pm UK time

Venue: Online
Website: https://elizabethashdown.co.uk
20 - 21 Apr 2024

Double Cloth on a pointed draft 

A two-day workshop led by Laura Thomas.

Cost: £225.

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
20 - 21 Apr 2024

Double Cloth on a Pointed Draft

For weavers already confident in designing and weaving double cloth structures on a block draft, an opportunity to learn how to weave motifs on a double cloth pointed draft and how to design your own double cloth motifs.

Tutor: Laura Thomas

Cost: £225

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
27 - 28 Apr 2024

Wonderwool Wales

See website for further information.

Times: Saturday 10am – 5:30pm, Sunday 10am – 4:30pm.

Venue: Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys
Website: http://www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk/
27 - 28 Apr 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
23 Apr 2024 - 11 May 2024

The Braid Society

A touring exhibition of members’ work to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Braid Society. 

For further information go to www.braidsociety.com.

Venue: Newtown Textile Museum, 5-7 Commercial Street, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2BL
Website: https://www.liveborders.org.uk/culture/museums/our-museums/borders-textile-towerhouse/
11 - 13 May 2024

Supplementary Warps & Sashiko

Techniques to achieve woven fabrics that look as though they have been stitched, visually referencing Japanese sashiko embroidery.

Tutor: James Donald

Cost: £330

Venue: Devon Weavers Workshop, 8 Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DY
Website: http://www.devonweaversworkshop.org
18 May 2024

Cheshire Guild Friendship Day

Including a talk by Ann Martin, former spinner/weaver at Quarry Bank Mill, suppliers’ stalls and exhibition of work. Open to all members of AGWSD Guilds from 10 am to 3.30pm.  Entry free – bring a dish for a shared meal. Contact: cheshireguildwsd@gmail.com.

Venue: Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane WA6 7QN
13 - 19 May 2024

London Craft Week

Celebrating creativity, the festival brings together over 750 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world.

For details of exhibitors and venues ee the website.

Venue: Various
Website: http://www.londoncraftweek.com
18 - 19 May 2024

Buxton Wool Gathering

See website for further information.
 

Venue: Buxton Pavilion Gardens, St. John’s Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BE
Website: http://buxtonwool.co.uk/
25 - 26 May 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Times: 9.15am – 4pm

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
08 - 09 Jun 2024

The Wool Monty

Check the website for details.

Venue: Magna, Magna Way, Templeborough, S60 1FD
Website: http://thewoolmonty.co.uk/
22 - 23 Jun 2024

Cumbrian Wool Gathering

See website for further info.

Venue: J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe, LA7 7FP
Website: http://cumbrianwoolgathering.co.uk
22 - 23 Jun 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Times: 9.15am – 4pm

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
23 - 28 Jun 2024

Introduction to tapestry weaving

A residential tapestry weaving holiday (4 days tuition). For more information and booking see Gartmore House website.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/

Venue: Gartmore Estate, Stirling, FK8 3RS
Website: http://www.gartmorehouse.com/craft-courses/tapestry-weaving-classes-near-me-uk/
22 Jun 2024 - 13 Jul 2024

The Braid Society

A touring exhibition of members’ work to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Braid Society. 

For further information go to www.braidsociety.com.

Venue: Borders Textile Towerhouse, 1 Tower Knowe, Hawick TD9 9BZ
Website: https://www.liveborders.org.uk/culture/museums/our-museums/borders-textile-towerhouse/
12 - 14 Jul 2024

AGWSD National Conference 2024 – The Riches of Wool

The conference will celebrate the riches of wool, from historical practices through to current and future possibilities, commencing with dinner on Friday 12 July and closing after lunch on Sunday 14 July. Bursaries are available for this event. See website for full programme.

Venue: Bicton College, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton EX9 7BY
Website: https://www.wsd.org.uk/news-events/conference/
20 - 21 Jul 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Times: 9.15am – 4pm

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
25 Jul 2024

Weave Taster Day – Playing with Structure

Looms will be set up with three different weave structures allowing participants to weave three distinctive cloths. For beginners and refreshers.
Tutor: Ali Sharman
Cost: £75 plus £5 materials
Venue: Hare Hill Barn, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NZ
Website: https://www.harehillbarn.co.uk/courses
30 Aug 2024 - 01 Sep 2024

Set up and Weave on a Table Loom

Learn the fundamentals of setting up a four-shaft table loom to be able to weave independently. For beginners and refreshers.

Tutor: Ali Sharman.

Cost: £210 plus £5 materials.

Venue: Hare Hill Barn, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NZ
Website: https://www.harehillbarn.co.uk/courses
25 Jan 2024 - 06 Sep 2024

Tapestry: Introduction to studio practice

Introduction to Studio Practice offers students the opportunity to build their creative and technical skills in tapestry weaving, aimed at those who have completed a beginners course and are looking to extend their practice.

The study programme runs from January to September 2024 and requires commitment to 5 x 2-day workshops plus guided and self-directed study through a series of projects.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

Cost: £995

Venue: Studio 114, WASPS Studio, Patriothall, EH3 5AY
Website: http://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/
07 - 08 Sep 2024

The Scottish Yarn Festival

Featuring independent yarn dyers, producers of single origin wool, tutors and lecturers.

Venue: Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth, PH2 0TH
Website: https://thescottishyarnfestival.com/
15 - 20 Sep 2024

Introduction to tapestry weaving

A residential tapestry weaving holiday (4 days tuition). For more information and booking see Gartmore House website.

Tutor: Fiona Hutchison

https://www.fionahutchison.co.uk/workshops/

Venue: Gartmore Estate, Stirling, FK8 3RS
Website: http://www.gartmorehouse.com/craft-courses/tapestry-weaving-classes-near-me-uk/
21 - 22 Sep 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Times: 9.15am – 4pm

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
26 - 27 Oct 2024

James Donald: Weekend weave workshop

During the weekend weave class you will receive targeted and concentrated tuition, with access to a range of specialist textile literature, samples and notes, with the purpose of you leaving with a firmer grasp of how cloth is woven.

Tutor: James Donald

Times: 9.15am – 4pm

Cost: £275

Venue: Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6ET
Website: http://www.pickone.co.uk
24 Nov 2024

Weaving taster session

Spend an afternoon weaving on a traditional dobby handloom, in a small group with plenty of individual support.

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm

Cost: £35

Venue: Twisting Gallery Studios, 83-85 Town Street, Farsley, LS28 5UJ, West Yorkshire
Website: http://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/calendar/category/courses-and-workshops/
18 Sep 2024 - 22 Dec 2024

Telling a Yarn: Remember, React, Re-tell

A celebration of the rich heritage of the woollen industry of Cumbria and the Yorkshire by the Threadmill Textile Artists group.

Venue: Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, LA10 5LW
Website: http://www.farfieldmill.org/whats-on/exhibitions/
15 - 21 Jun 2025

Braids 2025 – Rockin’ Braids and Bands

The 6th International Braiding Conference will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, with workshops, talks and other activities. 

See website for further information. 

Website: https://amksoc.org/uncategorized/braids-2025/