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Textiles
What we do in Textiles sessions
Within the textiles sessions members work with an experienced Textile artist. These sessions offer the members a chance to develop their skills through felt making and silk painting as well as embroidery.
Start members don’t have to have any experience of working in this field and the art work produced is always of a very high standard.
Recyle fabric to make a folksy wall hanging
From a heap of unpromising looking old clothing and material remnants, the textile taster group created striking looking folksy hangings.
An old wire hanger was turned into a metal hoop. People then tore strips of material (about 15cm by 2) and knotted them onto the hoop, combining a mix of colours and materials. The tearing part was fun and satisfying! After a tea break we sewed little hearts out of the same materials and filled them with lavender-infused stuffing, finishing off to create an unusual, attractive and scented hanging for the wall, window or even front door.
If you’d like to transform a piece of worn out clothing into a beautiful folksy hanging, you can download illustrated step-by-step instructions here.
