Workshops

Elegant Geometry: From Basketry to Sculpture

Venue: Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
Date: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st March 2010
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Course Fee: £185 Friends of SIT £165 includes all materials and tea/coffee

Tickets available only through S I T office

A 2 Day Master Class With Dail Behennah & Mary Butcher.
Following her recent residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mary Butcher joins forces with Dail Behennah to bring you this opportunity to explore and create using willow and mixed materials.
The triangle is an adaptable form which can be multiplied in many ways to make complex structures in variety.
Taking the triangle and using a range of materials and techniques, Mary and Dail will draw on their diverse skills and experience. to present a fascinating and memorable Master Class.

Book early as places are limited.

PLEASE VISIT OUR ONLINE SHOP OR CONTACT THE OFFICE TO PURCHASE TICKETS.

This workshop is part of the ‘In the Making’ series of educational exhibitions.
‘In the Making’ can be found in the foyer of the Museum in the Park, Stratford Park Stroud www.museuminthepark.org.uk 01453 763394

IN STITCHES with LOUISE WATSON

Venue: Stroud Subscription rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE
Date: Saturday March 20 2010
Time: 10 am – 1.30 pm
Tickets: £25.00 available through the Tourist Information Centre Box Office on 01453 760960

Make a small brooch inspired by Anglo Saxon jewellery. Using simple embroidery techniques, you will master applying beads and sequins.
The workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced embroiderers.
Louise is an experienced textile artist and a member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.
Please bring needles, beads, threads and scissors. Other materials will be provided.

‘Fragments’ workshop with Gizella K Warburton

Venue: SIT Studio, Stroud GL5 1QG
Date: Sunday 2nd May 2010
Time: 9.30 am – 5 pm
Tickets: £45.00

 ‘Be inspired and enjoy a tactile journey of discovery experimenting with surface, colour, line and composition through collage and stitch. This workshop day will offer possibilities for all levels and will include the opportunity to explore personal creativity and be mentored by a practising artist. Bring along your own ideas, materials and images that inspire you, and an open mind…’

Please bring your own lunch and materials and images that inspire you.
Tickets: £45.00
Available online

Part of the annual Textile Festival

Tactile drawing with Dionne Swift

Venue: SIT Studio, Stroud GL5 1QG
Date: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May 2010
Time: 10am – 4pm
Course Fee: £95.00 for 2 day workshop


Following the success of NEW GROUNDS: solo touring exhibition, Dionne shares ideas to initiate stimulating textile surfaces for a plethora of applications.
Experimental mark making provides the energy for this inspirational workshop.  Some textile students shy away from drawing, fear not- it’s made accessible and enjoyable in an encouraging and friendly environment!
Transform your paper work into highly tactile compositions; exploring thread, stitch, cloth, layering etc.. Progress your ideas and techniques simultaneously.  Ideal for those wishing to embark on new areas of development &/or generating sketch book ideas – you’ll have practical exercises to keep you constantly moving forward PLUS the opportunity for individual discussion & tuition. 
Please bring with you inspirational objects to work from [not photographs] and a broad range of mark making tools: pencils, marker pens, felt tips, brushes, foam pads, sponges, sticks: the collecting of these is the beginning of the workshop!  Your choices will all be different – it makes it exciting...
This course is aimed at an intermediate level.
A contribution of £5 per person is requested to cover materials.
Bring a sewing machine, suitable for free embroidery &/or embellisher [in good working order – NB. you must know how to use your machine!!] 
Course Fee: £95.00 for 2 day workshop

Part of the annual Textile Festival

Knitting Group

Venue: Prema Art Centre, Uley  01453 860703
1st Thursdays of the month.
3rd September; 1st October; 5th  November; 3rd  December
8 pm
Fee: £2.00 a session. Refreshments available
If you enjoy knitting and a chat with likeminded people this is the group for you. Share hints, ideas, and relax. You can be a beginner or have been knitting for years. All welcome.

Kimono Kimono Exhibition

Venue: Stroud College in Gloucestershire, Stratford Park Road, Stroud GL5 4AH
11th – 25th July 2009
10 am – 4 pm Monday - Saturday

There is parking available at the College

KIMONO KIMONO is an extensive exhibition that illustrates the development of the kimono over the last one hundred years.
From work wear of cotton and hemp,dyed with indigo,to formal and ceremonial
costume using shibori,weaving and sumptuous embroidery on exquisite silks.It traces the changing fashions and tastes over this period that stretches from the Meiji era to the Showa period and the start of the Heisei era.
It is a rare opportunity to see so many and varied examples of the art of the kimono.This vast array together with selected accessories forms part of an extensive private collection,most of which has never been on public display.It is a collection put together over a number of years by Phil Porter.
 
Phil Porter.
Lecturer,practitioner in the fields of fashion,textiles and theatre design,collector and enthusiast.Phil specialises in the Far East,and holds large collections of Japanese,Chinese and Asian textiles .A lecturer in fashion he devotes his time to the research and collecting of textiles from the Far East.
He has lectured and worked in both Europe and Asia.
 
Lecture : The Kimono a Vanishing Art.
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 pm
£4.50 and £3.50 concessions
A fascinating insight into the history and traditions of the Kimono.How it was made,it's meaning and it's fast disappearing position in modern society.The talk is sumptuously illustrated with many examples from his extensive private collection,spanning the last one hundred years.Phil Porter gives us a glimpse into the fast vanishing world of the Kimono. A rare opportunity to see and understand this incredible Japanese Artform through this unique personal collection.
For details on this fascinating exhibition and to book onto the lecture please contact Stroud International Textiles on 01453 808076