Short courses
All individuals/companys/colleges are currently used by or have been recommended to us, but we cannot personally guarantee quality of product or of service.
Company name and contact details |
Course type |
Details |
| Ali Holloway
www.aliholloway.wordpress.com/weaving-classes/ |
One to one shaft weaving classes in Stoke Newington for beginners as well as for those with more experience. | The weaving classes are tailored to the students individual needs, including one-off taster lesson or book in for a series of lessons. Days and times are flexible so anyone interested should get in touch to arrange a class to suit. Prices: contact Ali Holloway |
| The Handweavers Studio 140 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 7NS. Tel: 020 7272 1891 Fax: 020 7272 7545 www.handweavers.co.uk |
Spinning, shaft weaving courses and workshops. Also offer a 2 year part time diploma | Also sells yarn, equipment and loom accessories |
| Belinda Rose
website: www.belindarose.co.uk/ |
Teaching weaving at all levels, beginner through jacquard in the studio near Aberdeen, with students coming from around and out-with the UK.
Weekly classes, , bespoke individual and group tuition, and also each year 4-day mixed ability workshops
4-day workshops for TC2 jacquard weavers. Bespoke workshops are flexible and designed around the students.
Distance learning over the internet, particularly for designing for jacquard using Photoshop.
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Freeweaver Saori Studio,
Craft Central,
397-411 Westferry Road
London E14 3AE
Tel: 07854113330
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Hand weaving sessions on Japanese Saori floor looms for groups and individuals. Workshops, garment making courses, weave-alongs and a variety of weaving technique lessons such as Railreed weaving, Saori warp design, yarn dyeing, khadi cotton spinning and more. 1:1 tuition for special projects is also available.
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Freeweaver is the home of Saori Weaving in London and is a fully registered Saori studio. We sell Saori looms, yarns, books, a range of ethical hand made yarns and charkha’s. |
| Lisio Foundation www.fondazionelisio.org |
Offers research and courses particularly in jacquard. Old and new loom and weaving techniques | Florence, Italy. Also manufacture traditional and contemporary woven fabrics |
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The London Loom
Hackney Downs Studios
17 Amhurst Terrace\
E82BT London
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Offers
beginner freestyle weaving workshops to children and adults at any skill level. They are about creative satisfaction, community and fun.
They also host ‘Late Nights’ evenings with guest hosts where you can learn a variety of different crafts.
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Can offer individual or group tuition
Also stock a variety of weaving accessories and looms hand made in England |
| Sam Goates Contact: info@weareonecreative.com |
Weaving workshops | Workshops in wool and tweed. Scotland |
| GlobalYell Contact: kirsty@globalyell.org |
Weaving Workshops and Shetland Tours | See brochure link for full details. Island of Yell. Scotland |
| The Loom Room Contact: Stacey Harvey-Brown stacey@theloomroom.co.uk www.theloomroom.co.uk |
Jacquard and shaft weaving – Various Lengths of courses (see website) | Based in France. Other workshops for textiles: colour, texture, design, dyeing, felting, pictorial textiles workshops (see website) |
| Janet Phillips Woven Textile Designer and teacher Butterfly Cottage, 37 Castle Street, Nether Stowey Somerset. TA5 1LN 01278 732266
Contact: janetphillips@clara.co.uk |
4 day Weaving Courses are held in Janet’s studio in Somerset in weaving, spinning, dyeing and weave design. All levels are welcome from beginner to experienced weaver.
The two year Master Class in Weave Design is for weavers who wish to develop the skills to design original and innovative fabrics. This involves eight, five days studio sessions in Somerset, every three month, followed by design briefs to complete at home
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Somerset |
| Textile Centre of Excellence TCoE, | The Centre offers quality assured, flexible training at all levels from pre-entry traineeships to foundation degree equivalent programmes. The Centre is a recognised BS EN ISO 9001: 2008 organisation, holds the ‘Matrix’ standard for Information, Advance and Guidance (IAG) and has secured the Creative Skillset Industry Tick for industry relevant training and skills provision. | |
The Threshing Barn Unit 10, Reeth Dales Centre, Silver Street, Reeth, Richmond, DL11 6SPwww.threshingbarn.com |
Weaving, designing, spinning dyeing and felting courses. Craft equipment and supplies | |
| Margo Selby www.margoselby.com/contact/ |
Shaft weaving classes | Other workshops. Whitstable. |
| Riita Sinkkonen Davies www.riittaweaving.wordpress.com/courses/ |
Weaving workshops | Pembrokeshire |
| Melanie Venes www.twill-knot.co.uk |
Shaft loom weaving | Norfolk |
| Martin Weatherhead Email: martin@snail-trail.co.uk www.snail-trail.co.uk |
Residential weaving & dyeing courses | Pembrokeshire |
| The Montreal Weaving Centre www.textiles-mtl.com |
Offers diplomas and short courses in dobby and jacquard | Canada |
| Selvedge Magazine www.selvedge.org/collections/craft-projects |
Short craft courses | |
| Weaversbazaar Lin Squires 0780 160 7286 | A selection of one day courses in tapestry | A selection of one day courses primarily in Tapestry Weaving but also tapestry finishing, three dimensional techniques, tapestry and macrame combined. Taught by specialist tutors in our own workshop facility with small class sizes. Equipment and materials are generally provided.
Details For details see https://www.weaversbazaar.com/courses/ |
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Weftfaced Workshop
Contact: Caron Penney
Tel: +44 (0)1243 814878
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Runs workshops. High warp looms, high quality worsted wool, cotton, linen and silk | Tapestries woven to commission, tapestries for sale.
Short courses online: 23rd Jan 2021 Colour blending and Hatching see website for details. Courses going forward see the website |
| West Dean College www.westdean.org.uk |
Short courses on various aspects of textiles, excellent reputation for tapestry weaving | South Downs |
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