Name: Mixed Media Textiles - Wall Hanging - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning
Start: 2025-01-18T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-01T12:30:00+00:00
Location: West Bridgford Library

Mixed Media Textiles - Wall Hanging - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning

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About this Event
Key details

Date: 18 January - 1 February 2025
Sessions: Saturdays: 9:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions: 3
Venue: West Bridgford Library, Nottingham
For ages: 19+
Group size: 5 - 12
Cost: FREE - £14

About this course

Create a mixed media textile wall hanging using fabric manipulation, weaving, macrame and stitching.

Explore a range of fabric manipulation and textile techniques to create a textured wall hanging. You will learn how to combine different textiles crafts together to create a creative, textured piece of art.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Learn how to begin a hanging using a wooden dowel and macrame cord
Learn how to use macrame and weaving to add structure
Create a manipulated fabric panel using stitching
Use weaving to add texture and shape
How to attach fabric panels to a hanging
Increase creative confidence by creating your own unique design independently

Resources required:

-Fabric offcuts; these can be from sewing projects, old clothes or offcuts from fabric shops

-Wooden dowel, approx 30-50cm long, this can either be pre-cut from a craft shop or cut from a longer length from a DIY shop. You can also use a small branch or rod made other materials

-Macrame cord or string

-Selection of yarn, wool or cords

-Selections of sewing thread and embroidery threads

-Sewing needle and embroidery needle

-Scissors

Supplies can be purchased from:

The Range
Boyes
Local fabric shops and market stalls
Hobbycraft
Amazon

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: