Doesn't take much to tear us into pieces
Thematic Embroidery Courses
Doesn't take much to tear us into pieces
Bits and Pieces and
Recycling
A new course with bits and pieces from the new book "Creative Recycling in Embroidery" out in October 2006.
After a discussion on how we can relate to recycling in textile and embroidery production we will spend days on the following:
1. Cheats paper, cheats silk paper and cheats felt technques and simple paper making. Creation of a plate for collagraphy printing for manipulating paper or printing on paper or textile surfaces (this will continue over the next few days - to allow for drying)
Artist visit to artists who use recycling and unusual materials in their work
2. Working on and with plastics. Burning, weaving, incorporating into rich embroidered surfaces. Plastic as a support for embroidery.
3. Working with metal surfaces, stitching into cans and tomato paste tubes, manipulation, patchwork, inclusion into embroidered surfaces.
Visit to local "Brocante" specialising in textiles and lace, but also old books, magazines etc.
4. Project with existing embroidery, you will be asked to bring along something of your own that hasn't worked, and/or a piece of embroidery from another era or country that you are prepared to work into. Thoughts and ideas from the group will help us to build up a relationship with these pieces and guide us as to a new use - or we'll chop them up and put them back together!!!!
5. Vanishing fabrics and recyling textiles using different vanihing fabrics. Incorporating old lace into new textile surfaces. pritning from the Collagraphy plates creaed during the week.
You will be taking home a multitude of samples and lots of new techniques that you will have learned to incorporate into textile and embroidery surfaces.
price: 800€ full board in own room, 750€ if sharing with a friend or partner. 330€ non-embroiderer sharing room. Most materials included, you will be asked to bring along a few things for this course.
Dates: 4th -10th May 2008
Times: Sunday afternoon/early evening arrival for evening meal, Monday morning start. Course from 9.30 to 5.00 every day. Saturday morning departure after breakfast. The studio may be open all hours for students wishing to work longer hours.
Paper for Textile Art
A new course all about paper in relation to embroidered ot textile lead surfaces.
1. Preparation of collagraphy plates for manipulating paper or printing on paper or fabric. Production of "cheat's paper". 'Silk paper' and incorporating objects.
2. Preparation of material for paper making (organic material and used paper) and paper making.
3. Three dimensions and relief in paper - use of papier maché, paper strips, paper moulding
4. Use of paper for stitching - distruction, reconstruction, surface or application, colouring methods. Choice of papers and possible supports.
5. Collagraphy for manipulating paper surface, printing on paper and printing on textiles. Stitching with the results.
price: 800€ full board in own room, 750€ if sharing with a friend or partner. 330€ non-embroiderer sharing room.
Dates: 18th - 24th May 2008
Times: Sunday afternoon/early evening arrival for evening meal, Monday morning start. Course from 9.30 to 5.00 every day. Saturday morning departure after breakfast. The studio may be open all hours for students wishing to work longer hours.
A Museum Workbook
The careful study and drawing of existing textile surfaces can be a great starting point for new creative embroidery and surfaces. Inspiring surface construction and decoration by hand or machine, applique and distruction and distressing of other surfaces by different methods.
This course aims to look at study drawing and information collecting in museums, particularly of textile collections. Photography in diificult conditions will also be covered. In the studio we will look at how to relate to the information collected by hand and machine and using different techniques of distressing and colouring surfaces, as well as surface creation in relation to laces and edges.
The course will include two periods of museum visits. The first day will be very much about drawing and collecting in the museums concerned, followed by a day and a half of work from this workbook. A new museum trip will be programmed to 'try again' once areas of interest have been defined and new details or ideas need to be looked at. Different museums will be programmed at different times during the course.
price: 820€ full board in own room, 770€ if sharing with a friend or partner. 330€ non-embroiderer sharing room.
Dates: 21st - 27th September 2008
Times: Sunday afternoon/early evening arrival for evening meal, Monday morning start. Course from 9.30 to 5.00 every day. Saturday morning departure after breakfast. The studio may be open all hours for students wishing to work longer hours.
Flights in November do exist, notably Stansted/La Rochelle, but flight times and details are published after the summer season.
Windows and Doors.
An exploration with paint, stitch, papers and fabric, looking at this popular theme and ways to interpret it. Working from photographs taken from a marvelous collection of windows and doors from a walk around Luçon on our first morning, we will work from the photographs with sampling. By the end of the week you will have produced an original embroidery based on a local door or window using techniques with fibres, silk paper and hand or machine stitching.
price: 780€ full board in own room, 730€ if sharing with a friend or partner. 330€ non-embroiderer sharing room. Materials included.
Dates: 30th March to 5th April 2008
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