Fibre arts: textiles and basketry courses
A wonderul array of creative courses - from ancient crafts, such as rush basketry, to the latest craze for knitting. Basketry courses include those for the complete beginner, where you can use a range of materials from willow and rush to soft textiles and recycled materials, to courses that lead to a City & Guilds qualification. In our textiles courses you can enjoy embroidery, knitting, beading and many more. Creative, relaxing and practical all in one go!
- A taster course in basketry
- Accessories: design and make your own handbag
- Basketry workshop
- Basketry: 'imbenge' technique using telephone wire
- Basketry: City & Guilds 7922, part 1 year 2
- Basketry: City & Guilds 7923, part 2 year 1
- Basketry: get netted
- Basketry: line, strip, form
- Colour onto cloth
- Contemporary willow basketry
- Creative stitched textiles
- Crochet for beginners
- Drawing with stitch
- Felt jewellery
- Felt jewellery taster
- Felt making: progressing ideas
- Felt-making for beginners
- Feltmaking: hand-felted Nuno cloth
- Hand knitting
- Hand knitting for beginners
- Hand knitting for improvers
- Introduction to plaiting: pattern and form
- Make baskets, bags and containers from recycled materials
- Open weave baskets and structures
- Rush basketry
- Rush into basketry
- Soft textile basketry
- Structural techniques for sculpture: working with natural materials
- Structures and surfaces with paper, fabric and stitch
- Surface pattern: design and decoration
- Textiles: colouring and dyeing fibres, fabrics and papers
- Textiles: exploring surfaces through paper and stitch
- Textiles: free appliqué still life
- Textiles: markmaking, collage and design ideas
- The textile course 1: day
- The textile course 1: evenings
- The textile course 2: advanced practice
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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!