MASTER CLASS WORKSHOPS 2008

Bookings open 1st March

WORKSHOPS

Friday 27 June 2008

10.15-12.30 Textiles for Children - Wool textile projects
for parents and teachers £25
Ruth Hicken & Lyn Lister, Textiles through time

12.30-1.30 Inkle Loom Weaving £10
Veronica Burningham

1.30-3.45 Rug Hooking, from start to finish £25
Sarah Ladd, Canada

Saturday 28 June 2008

10.15-12.30 The big Bash - waulking the tweed in the
Scottish Highlands £25
Songs and cultural traditions - learn to sing
Gaelic working songs
Gaelic Waulking Song Group

12.30-1.30 'Spinning with Hand Spindles' £10
Carol & Pete Leonard

1.30-3.45 Knitting without a Pattern £25
Di Gilpin

LECTURES

All Lectures £3

Friday 27 June 2008

10.30-11.30 Worsted; the remarkable story of cloth
Eugene Nicholson, Bradford Industrial Museum

12.30-1.30 From Fiddle Strings to Fishing Gear
- traditional Norwegian uses of a sheep's carcass
Amy Lightfoot, Norway

2.30-3.30 Short tailed sheep among Finno-Urgic tribes
(Northern Scandinavia, Estonia and Russia)
Annika Michelson, Finland

Saturday 28 June 2008

10.30-11.30 Rambouillet Merinos, the French national flock
Christine Lang, France

12.30-1.30 An Experiment in Creativity: half a century of tapestry
weaving at the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art centre, Egypt
Hilary Weir, OBE

2.30-3.30 Dyes and Dyeing, past and present
Shirley Simpson