Fashion and textiles bring together creativity, craftsmanship and practical skills, allowing you to turn ideas into wearable and functional pieces. From learning how garments are constructed to exploring surface design and textile techniques, these courses offer a hands-on way to understand how fabrics, patterns and textures work together.
Across our fashion and textile courses, you can explore clothes making, dressmaking, pattern cutting, patchwork and quilting, knitting, textile printing and more, alongside more specialist areas such as lingerie and bra-making, darning, visible mending or Japanese Temari ball making. Whether you’re interested in creating everyday garments, developing technical sewing skills, or experimenting with fabric design, these courses cover both traditional methods and contemporary approaches to textiles.
Our fashion and textiles classes are welcoming and beginner-friendly, with opportunities to build skills at your own pace. You’ll gain practical knowledge that can support personal projects, creative expression or further study, while developing confidence in working with fabric, tools and techniques used in fashion and textile design.
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Learn the terminology, tools and technique of flat pattern cutting, and draft of a standard industry pattern block adjusted to your own measurements
Learn how to draft patterns that eliminate fabric waste through intentional pattern planning and layout, based on a design
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Learn basic mending skills, while exploring the artistic potential of repair.
Create your own festive stocking from handmade felt and embellish it with embroidery.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
A 6 week knitting course for beginners covering simple techniques, while exploring colour and texture.
Learn Patchwork and Quilting through making samples and completing personal projects including both hand and machine stitching.
Explore the ancient art of indigo dyeing in this immersive natural dye workshop. You’ll learn how to create and maintain a fructose-based indigo vat, master tie-dye and shibori techniques, and experiment with eco-friendly fixatives. Perfect for anyone interested in sustainable textiles and plant-based colour.
Test the accuracy of your personal pattern block by constructing a calico trial, fitting it on your body, and adjusting the block for a second trial.
This course is for learners who are interested Clothesmaking and constructing garments from a commercial pattern.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
An Introduction to drafting a structured corset bodice with shaping, fit and construction.
Learn basic mending skills, while exploring the artistic potential of repair.
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Learn basic Japanese sashiko techniques to add both strength and beauty to repaired pieces.
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Explore combining embroidery with felting to create exciting colour and textural effects.
Spend a day getting to know the sewing machine and how to use it more effectively. Perfect to people who have a sewing machine but not confident in using it.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
This course is for learners who are interested Clothesmaking and constructing garments from a commercial pattern.
A 6 week knitting course for beginners covering simple techniques, while exploring colour and texture.
Learn Patchwork and Quilting through making samples and completing personal projects including both hand and machine stitching.
Explore the ancient art of indigo dyeing in this immersive natural dye workshop. You’ll learn how to create and maintain a fructose-based indigo vat, master tie-dye and shibori techniques, and experiment with eco-friendly fixatives. Perfect for anyone interested in sustainable textiles and plant-based colour.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
Bring your own design and translate it into a working pattern by adapting your fitted base block, testing it in calico, and refining it through toiles.
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Learn how to draft patterns that eliminate fabric waste through intentional pattern planning and layout, based on a design
Learn basic Japanese sashiko techniques to add both strength and beauty to repaired pieces.
Learn how to analyse fit issues with your commercial sewing patterns and correct them to your body type
Learn how to draft patterns that eliminate fabric waste through intentional pattern planning and layout, based on a design
Spend a day getting to know the sewing machine and how to use it more effectively. Perfect to people who have a sewing machine but not confident in using it.
This course is for learners who are interested Clothesmaking and constructing garments from a commercial pattern.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
Spend a day getting to know the sewing machine and how to use it more effectively. Perfect to people who have a sewing machine but not confident in using it.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.