WEEK 2 - August 8 - 12
Natural Dyeing – Kate Horner
A five-day workshop creating a wide range of colours. You will dye small packages and 2 over-dyed shibori scarves. You will provide materials for dyeing.
Day 1 – Preparation
Mordanting materials and preparation of dye products. Tying scarves.
Day 2 – Dyeing Yellows
Day 3 – Dyeing reds
Day 4 – Dyeing neutrals
Day 5 – Indigo dye vat
Please prepare 100 packages weighing 10gms each. Plant and animal (including silk) materials will need to be mordanted separately, but can be recombined later.
Each dye pot will use 5 packages for a first dip and 5 for a second. Four out of these 5 packages will be treated with different modifiers to create a range.
Introduction to Hand Embroidery – Angie Burt
This 5-day course will introduce you to a wealth of traditional techniques, explaining about tools and materials. Enjoy the beauty of using an array of stitches to develop samples from your designs. These will develop into creating a simple picture that you can sit back and enjoy.
Introduction to Machine Embroidery – Angie Burt
Get to know your machine and the potential within it in this 5-day course. You will explore the simple possibilities of straight and zigzag stitch, playing with colour, thread and materials. Once the simple options have been explored and your confidence is developed, you will go on to drop the dog feed and be introduced to the joys of free machine embroidery. As skill develops you will use it in a range of exercises to develop your designs and explore a wide range of materials. Your samples will build into a reference library you will draw on in your future work
These courses can be entered for a City & Guilds qualification.
ArtyBirdCarnforth
School for Art and Textiles
Summer School
£250 tuition + £35 materials and equipment
Contact Alison
01524 874890
Lyne Riggs Estate, Lancaster Road,
Carnforth, Lancashire, LA5 9EA
Week 1 – August 1 – 5
Basics of Felt Making – Kate Ryan
A 5-day course introducing the three main felt making techniques: fibre painting, nuno and 3d felt using a resist.
You will make a picture using fibre painting and half felt techniques. Please bring a photograph or sketchbook with you as inspiration.
You will rainbow dye a length of sheer fabric and use fibre to create a nuno scarf.
You will lay out fibres around a resist to create a vessel around a wine bottle.
All materials and equipment will be provided, though we may need you to drink a bottle of wine in preparation for the last day. Please select your wine with a flat-bottomed bottle!
Design for Craft – Kate Horner
Every year makers with strong craft-skills who have limited design knowledge, wanting to know more, approach me. They recognise that developing design skills helps increase your voice in your personal work. In this 5-day workshop you will explore each of the five key design elements.
Day 1 – Colour. Create a colour-mixing library. This is based on colour theory and can be applied in craft media.
Day 2 – Shape. Looking at composition with consideration of the subject, background and frame. You will apply colour through accurate colour mixing. You will go on to explore collage using painted papers.
Day 3 – Line. This is an introduction to drawing in a variety of media, tonal and colour.
Day 4 – Texture. Looking at surfaces within the background, mid-ground and foreground of an image.
Day 5 – Form. Moving into 3-D.
Meet the Makers – August 6th 10.00am – 2.00pm
This is an open day at our centre where you can come in and see the work of our students and meet some of the makers.
This will be part of the Carnforth Arts Festival.