CRAFTS
FULLY BOOKED: RUSKIN LACE
A Lake District speciality since 1884, using Needlepoint Lace techniques for drawn thread and cut linen work with geometric designs. Suitable for both beginner and experienced. If required, a starter pack (£12) is purchasable from the Tutor. Karen Quickfall (Lancashire www.highamhall.com/karen-quickfall) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190
FULLY BOOKED: WHITEWORK EMBROIDERY
White-on-white embroidery. Sample different types and techniques of Whitework or work on your piece. Angie Burt (Lancashire www.highamhall.com/angie-burt) Residential: £365 Non-residential: £255
FULLY BOOKED: STUMPWORK
Coloured silks and metallic threads on heavy silk show insects, fruit, small animals and flowers in Elizabethan stumpwork. A modern piece may be any raised design, inspired by a book, picture or photograph using any fabric and thread you'd like for texture. Jane Matthews (Yorkshire www.highamhall.com/jane-matthews) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190 CANVAS WITH A TWIST followsJane
FULLY BOOKED: CANVAS WITH A TWIST: THREAD, BEAD AND PAINT
Choose a photo from a selection which will be printed onto an A4 piece of canvas. The excitement is seeing how the image develops as you embellish some areas with stitches in various threads and beads and highlight with metallic paint. Jane Matthews (Yorkshire www.highamhall.com/jane-matthews) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190 STUMPWORK precedes
ENAMELLING LONG WEEKEND
Work on copper, silver, or steel. Make enamelled jewellery, small tiles, or panels. Skills include: enamel application, kiln use, control and safety, foils, stencils, sgraffito and other techniques as desired. Absolute beginners welcome. Materials purchasable from Tutor (£5-£20 dependent upon project). Tilly Wilkinson (Wirral www.highamhall.com/tilly-wilkinson) Residential: £475 Non-residential: £340
FULLY BOOKED: ELIZABETHAN STYLE EMBROIDERY
This course will introduce you to the beautiful art of Elizabethan Style embroidery. We will create a small-scale design in a hoop using stitches that were commonly used during and appropriate to this period. Suitable for all levels of embroidery knowledge. Helen McCook (Staffordshire www.highamhall.com/helen-mccook) Residential: £365 Non-residential: £255 (Materials kit purchasable c£50 from
FULLY BOOKED: EXQUISITE EMBROIDERY: UNFINISHED OBJECTS (UFOs) AND MOUNTING
This workshop is to help anyone with a part-worked embroidery project that they are stuck on, aren't sure how to progress, or have simply lost their mojo! You can also learn how to mount an embroidery. Helen McCook (Staffordshire www.highamhall.com/helen-mccook) Residential: £365 Non-residential: £255 (Materials kit purchasable from Tutor) Follows Helen's Elizabethan course.
LACE AS YOU LIKE IT (INCLUDING TANTALISING TORCHON) PT1
*TWIN COURSE* Discover handmade bobbin lace, work on your UFOs and pick Jan's brain. She will also bring patterns from her Tantalising Torchon collection, exploring some more unusual aspects of this neglected lace. Total beginner through to advanced - all welcome! Jan Gardiner (Somerset www.highamhall.com/jan-gardiner) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190 (Basic materials purchasable from Tutor
LACE AS YOU LIKE IT (INCLUDING TANTALISING TORCHON) PT2
*TWIN COURSE* Discover handmade bobbin lace, work on your UFO's and pick Jan's brain. She will also bring patterns from her Tantalising Torchon collection, exploring some more unusual aspects of this neglected lace. Total beginner through to advanced all welcome! Jan Gardiner (Somerset www.highamhall.com/jan-gardiner) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190 (Basic materials purchasable from Tutor c£5-£10.)Jan
FULLY BOOKED: GET WEAVING!
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomExplore the use of colour and texture. Dress a loom. Understand how to read pattern draft. Suitable for both absolute beginners and developing weavers. Jan Beadle (Cumbria highamhall.com/jan-beadle) Residential: £365 Non-residential: £255 (Yarns £15 purchasable from Tutor)