Hands-on! Bring chair, stool, ottoman, headboard... build up from scratch or just re-cover, tackle interior paddings with traditional or modern techniques. Simon will make prior contact to advise on materials. Simon Ireland (N. Cumbria www.highamhall.com/simon-ireland) Residential: £242 Non-residential: £172 (Materials from Tutor)

Employed for centuries to honour our most important events, Metal Thread renders beautiful results with a variety of textures. Be introduced step by step to couching, passing, rococo, over stretched pearl purl threads, plunge and tie back ends, trellis stitch, beads, sequins, looped chips and burden stitch with metal thread. Goldworker newbies welcome. Helen McCook (Royal School of Needlework ww.highamhall.com/helen-mccook) Residential: £340 Non-residential: £239 (Materials kit purchasable from Tutor) Helen's STUMPWORK follows.

Be introduced step by step to this charming art with an original design created by Helen, inspired by C17th Century pieces depicting the allegorical sense of smell. Learn to create 3D hands, faces and body forms, applied fabric and needlelace slips, supporting surface stitch embellishments. Stumpwork newbies welcome. Helen McCook (Royal School of Needlework www.highamhall.com/helen-mccook) Residential: £340 Non-residential: £239 (Materials kit to purchase from Tutor) Helen's GOLDWORK precedes.

Invented in the mid-1980s by a Belgian bookbinder, you could say it was a Western version of the traditional Japanese stab binding techniques. The binder wanted a book that would open flat but with the appearance of the stab sewing. Also known as a 'crisscross binding'. Perhaps the secret is that nobody is certain who invented it. Our first day will be printing the covering paper using a Dendtritic mono print technique. All you will need is good hand skills…

Silver Clay can be hand-crafted and fired to make fine hallmarkable silver jewellery. Make three stunning professionally-styled pieces. Those with good experience may work on their own projects. Tracey Spurgin (East Yorkshire www.highamhall.com/tracey-spurgin) Residential: £340 Non-residential: £239 (Materials purchasable from Tutor c£65 subject to silver prices)

*NEW* Learn how to carve into sandstone, slate, limestone: make cuts, deep, steep, curved, straight and shallow, finished surfaces rough chiselled to honed. Working from outline drawings, discover the techniques needed to make an image rise out of a stone surface. All materials and equipment provided. NEW TUTOR: Ros Bryant (Orkney www.highamhall.com/ros-bryant) Residential: £242 Non-residential: £172 (STONE LETTER CUTTING follows)

Embracing the qualities of pixelated images, tapestries will be woven using a grid of squares and a simplified palette of solid colours. Suitable both for beginners and those with some experience. Louise Martin (Orkney www.highamhall.com/louise-martin) Residential: £242 Non-residential: £172 (ANIMALS follows)

A wonderful workshop to try out new ideas and techniques. Weavers have woven images of animals for hundreds of years and this workshop will look at traditional and contemporary tastes. Suitable both for beginners and those with some experience. Louise Martin (Orkney www.highamhall.com/louise-martin)