Fashion and textiles courses
Part-time, evening and weekend fashion, sewing and textile courses at London City Lit: dressmaking classes at all levelsFashion courses in London continue to rocket in popularity - including good old fashioned sewing classes! We offer a range of part-time fashion, sewing and textile courses at various levels, including daytime, evening and weekend courses. Sewing and dressmaking classes continue to attract a lot of interest and range from complete beginner (including how to use a sewing machine!) to advanced clothesmaking and customisation. Our textile courses are also extremely popular, with a new studio opening in September 2011 for you to enjoy - with everything from textile design, knitting, crochet, stitch and fabric printing. Here's what some of our students said about their fashion and textiles courses:
"We met for 3 sundays and it was intensive. But the course was worth it, as we learnt to make a skirt from a pattern and I really wanted to learn how to make something from scratch. The tutor was amazing."
To find our more about our fashion and textile courses, contact us on 020 7492700 or email visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
- An introduction to fabric printing
- Beginners skills for clothes making
- Clothes making intensive 1
- Clothes making intensive 2
- Clothes making intensive 3
- Colour onto cloth
- Costume design
- Creative stitched textiles
- Crochet for beginners
- Crochet for improvers
- Drawing with stitch
- Experimental hand knitting
- Experimental hand stitch
- Fashion drawing
- Fashioning fabrics: collars, cuffs, corsages and cameos
- Fashioning fabrics: personality pockets and pouches
- Fashioning fabrics: ruffles, flounces, pleats and tucks
- Faux chenille: cut pile appliqué textiles
- Felt jewellery
- Felt jewellery taster
- Felt-making for beginners
- Felt-making: hand-felted Nuno cloth
- Felt: developing techniques and ideas
- General sewing to survive - an introduction
- Hand knitting for beginners
- Hand knitting for improvers
- Introduction to clothes making
- Introduction to sewing
- Introduction to using a commercial sewing pattern
- Lacy knitting
- Learn machine skills and sew a tote bag
- Manipulated textiles using heat setting techniques
- Mixed media textiles: transform, change, disintegrate
- Pattern cutting for beginners - a pencil skirt
- Pattern making and block printing
- Starting with creative design - an introduction (textiles)
- Stitch, colour, collage
- Stitched networks - exploring line and space
- Structural crochet: working with 3D forms
- Surface pattern: design and decoration (textiles)
- Taster course in crochet
- Textile portraits
- Textiles: approaches to drawing, sketchbooks and design development
- Textiles: basics for beginners
- Textiles: colouring and dyeing fibres, fabrics and papers
- Textiles: images on cloth
- Textiles: inspired connections
- Textiles: recycle, reuse, retell
- Textiles: super sketchers
- The clothes making course 1: day
- The clothes making course 1: eve
- The clothes making course 2: day
- The clothes making course 2: eve
- The clothes making course 3: day
- The clothes making course 3: eve
- The fashion course: illustration and presentation
- The fashion course: introducing design principles
- The textile course 1: day - colour and pattern
- The textile course 1: day - mixed media
- The textile course 1: day - structure and surface
- The textile course 1: evening - colour and pattern
- The textile course 1: evenings - mixed media
- The textile course 1: evenings - structure and surface
- The textile course 2: intermediate and advanced practice
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Visual arts
Tel: 020 7492 2700
Please email us for advice or call us during these times:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays - 9.00 -12.00 & 15:00-18:00
Thursdays - 9.00-12.00
Saturdays - 14.00-17.00
To enrol on a course, call 020 7831 7831.
Featured course
VX120 - Textiles: recycle, reuse, retell Sunday; 06/05/12 - 13/05/12; 10:30 - 16:30 Recycle your old favourite fabrics into a small experimental quilt; exploring the idea that textile carries many memories and secrets
Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!