Beautiful Silks Workshops - at the Faculty of Advanced Textile Knowledge and Wisdom.

Special Offer for 2010: If you have completed 5 of Beautiful Silks workshops over the past 12 months, we invite you to enroll in one workshop and pay half of the workshop tuition fee. Also attendance at our workshops entitles you to become a member of our open studio...knit wits, felt belters and stitchers and bitches!

Spaces available Grampians Texture for batik, devore, felting and dyeing Febuary 20th onwards 2010

2010 workshops: We start 2010 with Jacinta Leishman Jacinta's special dyework. February 7th doors open at 9.00 am for a 9.30 start Jacinta's assistant will be Kelly Goodwin Workshop booking code JL01

And the following week an inimitable teacher with a creative approach to teach you successful feltmaking in a most delightful way:

- Wendy Bailye

..........with various subjects on this theme of the HOME over 4 exciting days -

Taking Felt into the Home as Object, wearables, hangings, flowers and more!

Wendy Bailye : Taking felt into the home as object: February12-15th:

Wall Art (large) Friday 12th February Workshop booking code WB01

Vessels Saturday 13th FebruaryWorkshop booking code WB02

Nuno Wrap Sunday 14th February Workshop booking code WB03

Fabulous Floral Extravaganza Monday 15th February Workshop booking code WB04

Felting for Beginners Phyllis Hoffman Felting for Beginners - Saturday 6th March- Learn the basic steps and take home your first finished felt work.

Workshop booking code PH01

Wandering in fields and forests. India Flint in New Zealand ... (accommodation can be included, your arrival evening of the 6th.) March 7-11 2010.

contact: workshops@beautifulsilks.com to apply for a booking: Workshop booking code IF01

In Pursuit of Art Cloth: Deconstructed and Polychromatic Screen Printing

Marie Therese Wishniowski March 20th & 21st 2010- Saturday & Sunday

Workshop booking code MTW01

Devore velvet - Cut velvet and Satin designs Marion Hera-Gorr and Saskia Baur Schmid Saturday April 3rd

(4 hour workshop 1-4pm) Workshop booking code MHG01

Zany Felt Beanies - Make a Hat for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival - with Marion Dawson's one day workshop. Saturday 10th April

Workshop booking code MD01

Vessels of Wisdom Philomena Hali -Degumming silk, making sculptural silk - silk vessles with Silk strippings, kozo bark and silk tops. Silk as structural sculpture material. Saturday & Sunday 22nd & 23rd May 2 days

Workshop booking code Hali01

Felting for absolute beginners tutor Phyllis Hoffman. Saturday 12th June

Workshop booking code PH02

3D Felt Scarves tutor Marion Dawson Saturday 19th June and Sunday 20th June

Workshop booking code MD02

Sculptured Felt Hats and Other Frivolities Liz Evans Saturday & Sunday July 10th & 11th 2 day workshop: (some feltmaking experience essential)

Workshop booking code LE01

Twist & Shape - Dimensional Shibori: Patricia Black, Melbourne 3 day workshop: 17,18 19 July 2010 (Saturday Sunday & Monday)

Adelaide 3 day workshop - code PB02 July 9th, 10th, 11th (Friday Saturday Sunday) Bookings through Beautiful Silks. Please make the CODE PB02 clear when you book.

Limited number of spaces, with the 'poet in cloth'.

Taking bookings now. Workshop booking code PB01

Stitching the Furture - Fiona Wright Women’s Stitching Tales ~ Story Cloths Friday to Sunday 15th, 16th & 17th October 2010

Lynne Johnson Yarning and Knitting.

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.

Jacinta Leishman More Funny Little Unexpected.

Rae Cummings Cross structure book binding.

email workshops@beautifulsilks.com to register your interest.

To enrol online click here.

Workshops past:

2008 and 2009 past workshops at Beautiful Silks.

Phylis Hoffman Nuno Felt: Rae Cummings Secret Belgian Binding: Jacinta Leishman with Funny, Little, Unexpected:India Flint presented 3 seperate themes - eco print, waste to wealth the embellished recycled textile and embedded textiles. Philomena Hali - Cotton Cloque, Tannic and rust staining. Jacinta Leishman Creative dyeing.

Jude Skeers Knitted hats - Jude Skeers Elizabeth Zimmerman knitted jacket - one day workshop. Liz Evans Fabulous Handmade Felt Hats with Finishes and Fripperies.Els van Baarle -wax resist batik Aukje Boonstra Plant dyeing with reinvention. Speed dyeing with Marion Hera-Gorr Rae Cummings and Kelly Goodwin

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!

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?