Beautiful Silks Faculty of Advanced Textile Knowledge and Wisdom.

August 2009 Workshops

Wendy Bailye - three wonderful felting workshops!

Sat 22nd August - Wendy Bailye - Day 1: Fabulous Felt Flowers

Sun 23rd August - Wendy Bailye - Day 2: Make your own designer bag

Mon 24th August - Wendy Bailye - Day 3: Textured Tribal Wrap

Enrol in one, two or three days... Enrol in all 3 days and recieve a discount.

Rae Cummings

Sun 3oth August - Rae Cummings - Cellulose Dyeing - Details soon

contact: workshops@beautifulsilks.com for more info

September 2009 Workshops

Sat 5th & Sun 6th Sep Els van Baarle - Silk and Wax Resist Dyeing International textile artist. Places are filling up fast... ENROL NOW

Sat 12th & Sun 13th Phyllis Hoffman - Felt and Nuno Felting... Learn from a teacher who provides a good structure to complete a project on each day of this two day weekend nuno-felt workshop. Suitable for beginners or more experienced students.

1/2 day Workshops... Dates to be announced soon:

Penny O'Neill Flowers in the field - crochet warmth and soft embellishment 1/2 day workshop

Heather Horrocks Vamp Re-Vamp - gothic crochet. 1/2 day workshop

Heather Horrocks Darn this, Patch That - crochet as creative cover up. 1/2 day workshop

Heather Horrocks Get Hooked Up and Happy - Crochet for Beginners 1/2 day workshop

Register your interest:

Lorraine O'Brien Knit Foxy sox, cute and cuddly feet made with your own hands.

Rae Cummings Cellulose Dyeing

Aukje Boonstra Freeform Re-Invention - re-create, re-stitch, re-colour with natural dyes

Jacinta Leishman More Funny Little Unexpected.

2010 workshops :

Llawenyth Power-Davies Play with nuno felt. 

Lynne Johnson yarning and knitting. Mix different yarns to produce different effects... in 2010

email info@beautifulsilks.com to register your interest.

(Download our workshops calendar: click here. This is in excel form. )

Tuesday nights 6-9 pm June-July-August.

Textile business workshops with our Business development partner, Jon Yaakov Gorr.

More planned workshops - please indicate your interest...

2008 and 2009 past workshops at Beautiful Silks.

October 5th 2008 Phylis Hoffman Nuno Felt

October 19th 2008 Rae Cummings Secret Belgian Binding

November 22nd 2008 Penny O'Neill Calm and Presence Presents.

November 15th and 16th 2008 Jacinta Leishman with Funny, Little, Unexpected

March 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th 2009 India Flint presented 3 seperate themes - eco print, waste to wealth the embellished recycled textile and embedded textiles. All workshops filledvery quicky, but we are taking wait lists for upcoming India Flint classes in 2010.

18th April 2009 Saturday Jacinta Leishman Creative dyeing.

19th April Sunday 2009 Jacinta Leishman Complex cloth and surface embellishment - foiling, guilding, stamping and much more....

Thurs 2nd July Thursday 2009 Jude Skeers Knitted hats - beret, pill box, beanie or tam.

Fri 3rd July Friday 2009 Jude Skeers Elizabeth Zimmerman knitted jacket - one day workshop.

Tues 7th & Wed 8th July 2009 Tuesday & Wednesday Liz Evans Fabulous Handmade Felt Hats with Finishes and Fripperies.

Why do a workshop?

Words of Wisdom from Marion Gorr, Managing Partner, Beautiful Silks

1.  If you have a passion, you don't have the luxury of leaving the job, you have to make it work for you.
2. Confidence only comes with a bit of experience. A workshop situation that is supportive and encourages risk and experimentation is the best way to set the basis for ongoing growth and courage.
3. My mother, pictured here, is Eileen Hutchins from Hastings New Zealand. I watched my mother work at custom making dyeing and designing for many years. I often thought she could have had an easier life if she had instilled a few boundaries and systems. So I have had to do that in my life, and see it works, if I can help others, by my experience, I will. Here's a picture of Mother - at 86, she has just retired from dressmaking, and is happy just gardening and pottering around home. Success is not always how much you earn but what you are doing.
4. 

PS MUM says, I still know best!

Specialty workshops can be designed to suit customer demand.

Upcoming Workshops!

Cut and fit workshops

Students learn how to adapt patterns to make them fit themselves, how to alter garments and reconstruct garments.

The garment workshops which we are holding soon on Tuesday nights, over a period of a few weeks,

• use of shape on the human form
• design and cutting of patterns
• cutting to fit
• constructing undyed garment
• dyeing constructed garments

Interested? contact: info@beautifulsilks.com

Policies for our workshops:

Workshops are booked on a first come first served basis.
 
Once the booking has been paid, if you wish to withdraw, for whatever reason, we ask that you replace yourself as we do not refund on less than 30 days prior to the workshop.  Any cancellation incurs an admin fee of $30.00.  If we have a wait list we can help you make a replacement under some circumstances if we have at least 7 days notice.  This service incurs a further $30.00 admin fee.  In the case of not being able to attend on less than 30 days notice, however compelling the reason, we cannot refund. In these cases please find a replacement for yourself to avoid charges.

Registration of Interest
Interested in attending a workshop, or wish to find out more? 
Please email us and we will get right back to you.