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 the essentials of flat pattern cutting such as laying a block on paper and making pattern adaptions to realise your designs.
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.
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.
Learn basic Japanese sashiko techniques to add both strength and beauty to repaired pieces.
Learn basic mending skills, while exploring the artistic potential of repair.
Create your own festive stocking from handmade felt and embellish it with embroidery.
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.
This course is for learners who are interested Clothesmaking and constructing garments from a commercial pattern.
Learn basic mending skills, while exploring the artistic potential of repair.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
Learn the essentials of flat pattern cutting such as laying a block on paper and making pattern adaptions to realise your designs.
Explore combining embroidery with felting to create exciting colour and textural effects.
This course is for learners who are interested Clothesmaking and constructing garments from a commercial pattern.
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.
A 6 week knitting course for beginners covering simple techniques, while exploring colour and texture.
Learn to lay and cut your fabric along with a range of sewing techniques to construct a simple garment of your choice.
Learn Patchwork and Quilting through making samples and completing personal projects including both hand and machine stitching.
On this course you will be introduced to the fundamental of pattern cutting, with the view to designing and making your own top.
Learn basic Japanese sashiko techniques to add both strength and beauty to repaired pieces.
Learn the component's needed to make a t shirt and with no waste
Beginners - Patchwork Tote Bag Workshop. You will learn how to piece together squares and construct them into a stylish tote bag.
Over two full days, participants will begin by naturally dyeing their fabric using botanical dye techniques before moving into garment construction.
Learn the relaxing craft of macramé knotting and create a decorative handmade textile piece.
Learn basic mending skills, while exploring the artistic potential of repair.
Learn basic Japanese sashiko techniques to add both strength and beauty to repaired pieces.
Advanced - Learn to make a Lone Star Block Design. If you are familiar with the basics of quilting then this course will help you develop your skills and learn how to construct a lone star block design.
Discover the creative technique of draping fabric directly on the dress stand to develop garment shapes and silhouettes.
Explore the elegant craft of painting on silk to create unique decorative textile designs.
Spend a day getting to know the sewing machine and how to use it more effectively. Perfect for people who have a sewing machine but are not confident in using it.