Creating Coloured Cloth at Kirklees Local Studies Library
Exhibition of books, photographs and dye samples exploring the textile heritage of Kirklees.
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Exhibition of books, photographs and dye samples exploring the textile heritage of Kirklees.
An exhibition that shows, from the Victorians until now, how you can make do and mend to help the environment.
An exhibition of knitted blankets by artist Laura Fisher, to look at and wrap around yourselves. Designs are based on artefacts from Holocaust Centre North's Archive.
Come and help us make a dye garden in Dewsbury town centre before the WOVEN 2023 festival starts!
Hill Tree Park is a park home community of 200 people over 50 in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield We...
Friends and family will yarn bomb the Manchester Road area of Linthwaite, the Christmas tree area on Hoyle...
An exhibition paying homage to and developing the history of art in textiles, from the mythical weaving of Penelope, through the Bayeux tapestry to the fabulous tapestries decorating medieval halls.
We have been growing colour around, and yarn bombing the front of the Community Centre.
Outlane Crafters will be yarnbombing the planters, with a flower arch, outside Outlane Community Project on New Hay...
An exhibition of four female textile artists – Dionne Swift, Kath Shepherd, Allison James, & Jill Hayfield – displaying pieces for sale, including wall art, contemporary embroidery, quilts, scarves, and bags.
An exhibition of quilts and textile pieces using recycled materials and traditional processes.
An exhibition incorporating the stories of natural and synthetic dyestuffs in Huddersfield.
An eco printing workshop, where you can learn to transfer colour from flowers and leaves onto fabrics, and an opportunity to explore and enjoy the Kirkwood gardens.
Communities from across Kirklees will STRUT their stuff on the catwalk celebrating identity through fashion. Plus pop-up skate park, live music & creative activities.
Come and join us to learn the basics of using leaves, plant life, and even your kitchen waste to create fabulous dyed fabrics.
Join us to make a Macramé hanger of colourful chord or recycled tee-shirt materials and a hand-built ceramic pot over two workshops
Come and join S2R Support to Recovery and artists from the Growing Colour Together project on our Cemetery Road Allotment to find out more about our friendly and welcoming allotment group, growing plants for natural dyes, at Birkby in Huddersfield.
Your chance to come and see where the Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection is stored and glimpse a few of its treasures.
An afternoon in the garden, honouring the deep roots of textile heritage and local growing spaces in our area
A talk that paints a picture of textile heritage through the lens of the industrial revolution, with Professor Abigail Harrison Moore and Nicola Redmore.
Teachers working in Kirklees are invited to a 1 hour tour of OXFAM’s Northern Logistics Centre in Batley
An exhibition of quilts at Huddersfield Art Gallery in the Piazza Shopping Centre, and at the Bagshaw Museum, Batley.
An exhibition of quilts at Huddersfield Art Gallery in the Piazza Shopping Centre, and at the Bagshaw Museum, Batley.
Graduate Showcase for students from the School of Arts and Humanities.
An exhibition of festival headdresses and other artworks celebrating natural dyes.
Drop in event for children and families weaving a fabric seabed complete with watery sounds
Bring your own project or help us make blankets and scarves for charity. Everyone welcome.
Join volunteers from the Threads of Survival quilt project to make your own quilt square, to add to the quilt.
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
See how woven fabrics are manufactured with a tour of the warping and weaving departments.
See how woven fabrics are manufactured with a tour of the warping, weaving and mending departments, and have a go at mending fabric in our workshop.
Hear how the Women's Cooperative Guild helped reconciliation between Britons and Germans in the aftermath of WW2 - and stay around afterwards to "knit & natter"
A social sewing group. Bring along any hand stitch project (mending, embroidery, knitting, crochet, patchwork, etc) and make and chat alongside others.
Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.
Learn how to use different punch needle tools, materials and make a start on your own punch needle artwork.
Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.
Learn how to use different punch needle tools, materials and make a start on your own punch needle artwork.
Bring along your extra plants and do a swap for something you may not have. And have a look around the colour garden we’ve been developing through the Growing Colour Together project.
Explore Huddersfield's textile mill heritage as inspiration, as you learn to work with discarded materials in the creation of your own woven cloth.
Join textile artists Elnaz Yazdani and Iqra Rafiq to learn a range of South Asian embroidery techniques for applying small flat mirrors to fabrics.
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Make your own festival headdress, with materials included and tutors to guide you.
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Our celebration of making brings you a boutique marketplace of beautiful things from some of the finest makers in the county and beyond.
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
Bring all the family to have a go at being creative with textiles inspired by Quilted: Community, Creativity and Care, an exhibition that celebrates quilts, sewing and community.
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
We are delighted to share with you our collaborative textile installation, Roving Lands, which will be taking over Crow Nest park Wildflower Garden for one day only.
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
Have you always wanted to learn how to draw with your machine? This is the workshop for you.
Make your own festival headdress, with materials included and tutors to guide you.
A celebration of natural dye, gardens and the contribution made by the communities of Kirkburton Parish. Textiles, music and connection.
Join Grow To School and textile artist Kayleigh Davis (ocre) for this exciting Flower Forensics workshop.
Join artist Kathy Shepherd to try your hand at this traditional textile technique of Hookie Rug-making.
Join us for a public talk by Professor Bertrand Taithe on the history of Hudfam’s remarkable founder Elisabeth Wilson, pioneer of fair trade in Huddersfield.
Join Uthra Rajgopal, Independent Curator, Avalon Fotheringham, Curator of South Asian Textiles at the V&A, and archive staff from Huddersfield’s Heritage Quay to discuss the Textile Fabrics of India Archive held at the University of Huddersfield.
Join us to enjoy live music in the Punjabi tradition and film screenings about life in the Kirklees textile industries.
Meet - virtually - the artisans and traders behind the hand-dyed fabrics, recycled glass beads and fair trade baskets that we source directly all across Africa.
Come along and learn how to bundle dye using natural pigments from the Birkby and Fartown Library dye Garden. Use flowers to create colour on textiles, meet others and learn how to work with textiles.
A two hour practical workshop at Greenhead College to introduce natural dyeing, with dyes made from kitchen scraps or cuttings from your garden.
Join local textile artist Kayleigh Davis on a foraging walk for natural dye plants.
Join us for our monthly craft group (knit and natter) in our yarn bombed gardens.
Explore a range of colours using vegetable and plant dyes such as turmeric, madder, onion skins and logwood on this one day natural dyeing workshop.
A two hour practical workshop at Greenhead College to introduce natural dyeing, with dyes made from kitchen scraps or cuttings from your garden.
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Every child has the right to be creative and explore their textile talent. Join artist Kim Searle from Darn It Workshops in this textile based workshop exploring repair, embellishment and getting creative with textiles!
This creative workshop will explore the Textile Fabrics of India Archive held at the University of Huddersfield offering you the opportunity to create your own response to these wonderful patterns.
This talk examines the presence of fur on the Shakespearean stage as a signifier that stretches across the lines of species, class, and race.
Join us with your old loved clothes for this unique step-by-step workshop for beginners in visible mending, embrace the patch!
Join us for our Growing Colour Together Symposium. We have presentations from artists, designers and researchers exploring Natural Dyes.
A drop in day where every child and adult gets to learn new textile skills. Led by artist Kim Searle, there will be a variety of creative techniques to get you started.
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees
Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees
Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees
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