Workshops

In this exciting two-day workshop, you will make handmade paper from recycled materials. You will use environmentally-friendly materials without using any chemical additives or animal products to make your paper. You will incorporate herbs, tea, sand, seaweed, shells, plants and flowers into your work and use natural vegetable and flower dyes to complete your paper. You can produce many different items including greeting cards, invitations, notebook covers, one-off pieces etc. This workshop will allow you to develop your creative side and continue to create handmade paper in your own home. All materials are provided.

This is a one-day, experimental workshop, introducing three different techniques applied in silk fibre papermaking and using a variety of pure and raw silk fibres (cocoon stripping, hand dyed silk tops, throwsters waste fibres, silk threads, bamboo fibres etc.) and fabric dyes. Participants will create colourful, textured, decorative, fabric-like papers, suitable for textile art and college works, stitching, embroidery and sculptural projects.