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  Day ClassesThe day classes are held in our Studio, at 4 Wheelers Yard, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, UK. Situated on the first floor, it has good natural light. Unless stated otherwise, classes will run from 10.00 to 4.00, with plenty of time for shopping in the showroom! Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. We now have a lady call at about 10am Mon-Fri, with delicious hand-made sandwiches along with drinks, cakes, sweets and fruit. Alternatively bring your own lunch or purchase it locally in the pubs and bakers' just a minute's walk away. All materials are included in the cost of the class, except where stated. We must point out that even though the workshop is on the first floor, the loo is on the ground floor. We have a display of information about the classes, with samples and photos, on the Ground Floor of the Studio - if you are visiting do make sure you have a look. If you have any queries about the classes please email us on For further details of these courses, refer to the Rainbow Silks website at www.rainbowsilks.co.uk Silk Painting 1 Jill Kennedy 1 Jun 2009 (Mon) £40.00 Silk Painting 2 Jill Kennedy 2 Jun 2009 (Tue) £40.00 Silk Painting 3 Jill Kennedy 3 Jun 2009 (Wed) £40.00 Silk Painting 4 Jill Kennedy 4 Jun 2009 (Thu) £40.00 Raring to Rust Marilyn Pipe 9 Jun 2009 (Tue) £35.00 Rust - Taking it Further Marilyn Pipe 10 Jun 2009 (Wed) £35.00 More Burning Issues Margaret Beal 12 Jun 2009 (Fri) £35.00 More Images in Batik Rosi Robinson 13 Jun 2009 (Sat) £40.00 Silk Painting on Seductive Sheers Mary Day 22 Jun 2009 (Mon) £40.00 Flowers in Ribbon Embroidery Marilyn Pipe 30 Jun 2009 (Tue) £35.00 Introduction to Machine Embroidery Marilyn Pipe 6 Jul 2009 (Mon) £35.00 Machine Embroidery 2 Marilyn Pipe 7 Jul 2009 (Tue) £35.00 Hard but Easy - Making Hardback Books (2 days) Frances Pickering 10 - 11 Sep 2009 (Thu - Fri) £80.00 Shibori on Velvet Lee Creswell 12 Sep 2009 (Sat) £49.00 6 Felted landscapes (2 days) Gilda Baron 26 - 27 Nov 2009 (Thu - Fri) £80.00 Rainbow Silks (WOW), 6 Wheelers Yard, High Street, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 0AL, UK. Email . See our website at www.rainbowsilks.co.uk |
  Siân Martin is a visiting lecturer on the textile degree courses at Somerset College of Art and a tutor for the adult City and Guilds Stitched Textile Course and a stitched textiles Masterclass at Urchfont Manor College, Wiltshire, UK. She has a number of workshop topics from which your group can select. Take a look at the suggestions below. In addition, Siân offers illustrated lectures where she shows fresh and exciting images. She is an inspiring speaker, whether at small Branch meetings, at regional, national or international events.
THE STRIKING CONTRASTS OF BLACK AND WHITE A new look at Black Work - A One or Two Day Workshop > Use bonding and transfoils. > Embellish with stitching - all in glorious combinations of black and white. > Each student will make small stitched squares, which will contribute to a larger communal piece for your Guild or Group. Choose your own image maybe a local landmark or building that is special to your Branch.
REMOVE and REPLACE A fresh look at Drawn Thread Work - A One or Two Day Workshop > Add colour! > Pull threads to rearrange the colour pattern to make interesting colour mixtures and a loopy surface. > Draw out threads from the weave and replace them back into the fabric in different patterns. > Withdraw threads and replace with interesting yarns, ribbons and strips of paper.
Discover the exciting technique of SHIBORI A One or Two Day Workshop > Create dramatic and permanent relief shapes in fabric using the simple Japanese method of steaming setting. > Tie and bind the fabric into different formations before being steamed for 10 minutes to set the shapes. The ties and stitches are then removed to reveal the exciting results.
COLOURFUL WRAPPING
A One or Two-Day Workshop > Learn how to 'dip-dye' silk fabric to produce multi-coloured fabrics in Siân's individual way. > Wrap, twist and bind around shapes to create richly decorated surfaces. Create embroidered wrapped embellishments that could form gorgeous jewellery forms, interior decoration trimmings or small sculptural shapes. > Discover the use of magnets.
Courses are tutored by Siân Martin Wind Whistle Cottage, 12 Park Lane, Cannington, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 2LU, UK tel. 01278 652089, email , web site www.distantstitch.co.uk. |
 Ledbury Artplace has been brought about by combining the creative talents of the textile artist Angie Hughes and the artist/illustrator Jeanette McCulloch in April of 2005.
Angie took over the sole running of Ledbury Artplace in September 2006. Jeanette is a now Community Arts Coordinator, professional illustrator and textile artist but still offers creative courses at Artplace. Ledbury Artplace is a recently renovated 18th century building, comprising of purpose built art studios and workshop, in a courtyard setting. With facilities for teaching a variety of drawing, painting, textile and craft subjects, the programme of workshops is sure to offer something of interest for creative people. The library, shops, restaurants and inexpensive car parking are within a minutes walk away. The town is also served by an excellent railway and bus service. Angie's ambition for Ledbury Artplace is to be able to offer the greatest range of classes, asking the very best artists and craftspeople to teach.  Courses
Sat 6th June
Felted Jewellery with Marietta Learn how to make funky felt beads, necklaces, bracelets, brooches and felt flowers in brightly coloured wools. Book early as this colourful workshop is very popular. Materials Extra. Course Fee £48 Sat 13th – Sun 14th June Celtic Connections with Angie I devised this workshop to experiment with mixed media techniques, gesso, acrylics, texture pastes, image transfer and machine embroidery. Some of the techniques I later used in my book 'Stitch Cloth Paper and Paint'. Course Fee £90 Mon June 15th Luscious Lutradur in 3D with Kim Thittichai A whole day to create new edges and surfaces with various weights of Lutradur, painted Bondaweb, foils and Heavy Pelmet Vilene Plus. This workshop would be suitable for students interested in developing boxes, book covers and vessels. Tues 16th – Wed 17th June Bejewelled Bags with Angie Yes it's back with bells on! These charming little bags are constructed with black velvet, foiling techniques and machine embroidery. All topped off with lovely hand made tassels. Course Fee £90 Sat 27th June Layer Cake with Jeanette McCulloch Using pre-prepared printed tissue combined with t-shirt transfer paper, layered images and graphic collage ephemera, this workshop looks at contemporary scrapbooking techniques and materials combined to make a mounted image. A really good fun workshop for all abilities. Course fee £48 Mon 29th – Tues 30th June Exploring Velvet with Angie Angie's most popular workshop. Taking inspiration from plant forms Begin with a piece of white cotton velvet, use dye-na-flow fabric paints to colour the surface, develop pattern with discharge techniques, add foils and silk fabrics. Finish off with organza and machine embroidery. Course Fee £90 Sat 4th July Art Felt with Marietta Fabulous fine layers of many colours and textures. You will make fabulous fine layers of many coloured Merino wool combined with jewel coloured organza, and hand-dyed silk fibres. Then the felt will be ready for hand and machine embroidery. I went to Marietta's studio to see the samples she was working on and they are really creative gorgeous surfaces. Felters and embroiderers will love this workshop. Materials extra. Course Fee £48 Tues 7th July Silk paper Explorations with Helen Crawford Angie exhibits with Helen as part of the Rubicon group of textile artists. Helen’s creativity with silk fibres is legendary. Learn how to collage with silk fibres to create images inspired by nature. Course Fee £48 Fri 10th July – Sun 12th July Play on Bird Words with Angie *new* Angie has taken inspiration from text and poetry to make her art work for some years, this new workshop looks at quotations and sayings inspired by birds to create collaged and stitched images to frame up. Experiment with printed words, image transfer, embossing and machine embroidery. Part of Poetry Festival Week. Course Fee £135 Sat 18th July Vanishing Worlds with Angie Using natural forms as inspiration try the new sticky front ‘Aquabond’ to lay out your threads and fabrics, machine embroider then dissolve. The result is a delicate filigree to collage with other fabrics and stitch to make a lovely textural surface. Course Fee £48 Mon 20th – Fri 24th July Summer School – Cultural Cloth I did this summer school in the first year of Ledbury Artplace, now entering its 5th year of existence I'm reviving this colourful week of dye and print. We will look at dyeing techniques and pattern from India and Africa, starch resist, tie dye and block printing with a difference, finally cooking up an indigo dye vat to get the resonant deepest blue dyed fabrics for you to take home and use in your patchwork or stitched art works. Price includes dyes and printing inks you will need to provide fabrics. Course Fee £240 (limited to 6 places) Tues 25th – Wed 26th Aug Textural Book wraps with Angie Last years book wrap challenge at Artplace was a great success attracting lots of visitors, come and have a go at making one yourself. Make a new fabric from strips of calico, lace scrim anything you like really to weave the base fabric for the wrap. Embellish with Lots of printing and Machine embroidery. Learn about cord wrapping and making tyvek beads and other closures. You can find an article about these wraps in Quilting Art magazine Oct/Nov 2007 Course Fee £90 Sat 5th Sept Shimmering Landscapes with Angie *new* Back to black cotton velvet again, I've developed this workshop to show you how to use transfoils with bondaweb, Mistyfuse, Fuse FX, Hotspots and Supermend. Taking simple land or seascapes as a theme I will show you how to use these glues to make a twinkling surface for stitch. Course Fee ££48 Sat 12th – Sun 20th Sept H.Art week Open Studio, Adhesion Exhibition. Dyeing and embroidery demos artwork and materials sale(check the website for more details) Sat 26th Sept JUST FELT with Marietta Alker Marietta has been re-thinking her felt and how wonderful a medium it is without embellishment. This workshop will show you how to work with natural coloured wools to make flat felt for a cushion, chair seat cover or similar. Let the tactile quality of the wool speak for itself. Course Fee £48 Mon 28th Sept Tantalising Textile Books with Angie While delving into a pile of creative book publications I found this project by Jan Bode Smiley. I've added my own style to these little tag books. Techniques and materials include calico, Timtex, stamping, image transfer, and hand and machine embroidery. Great fun for all abilities. Materials available for small fee. Course Fee £48 Facilities available: In the Studio
If you are interested in enrolling on one of our courses, please send a cheque for the correct amount, payable to Ledbury Artplace. Remember to include your name, address, telephone number and email address if you have one. Alternatively, you can pay be credit card over the telephone. Book early to avoid disappointment. To ensure a place, please pay the full amount. A materials list will be sent to you on receipt of payment. There may be an additional cost for materials depending on the type of workshop. If the workshop has to be cancelled, you will receive a refund. Sorry but no refunds can be given if you withdraw within two weeks prior to the workshop. Due to popular demand, the workshops are booking up early so, if it is getting close to the date if your preferred workshop, please give us a ring to check availability.
Ledbury Artplace, 5a Worcester Road, Ledbury Herefordshire, HR8 1PL tel. 01531 633100, email www.ledburyartplace.com
STOP PRESS Have a look at Angie's new book (see below). It is reviewed in this issue of Workshop on the Web.  |
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