Even when there’s no big festival happening, there’s often lots of textile events happening across Kirklees.

Calling call Kirkburton colour gardens! Come along and swap your natural dye plant seeds and meet others planning their dye gardens!

Kirkburton, Huddersfield

Learn how to create paper stencils that can be used with indigo pigment paste to create prints on fabric and paper.

Batley

Join us for a natural dye plant and seed swap as part of our Growing Colour Together project.

Huddersfield

We’re planning a community catwalk to celebrate fashion and identity! Join this free, family friendly workshop to create your own accessories to wear on the catwalk.

Dewsbury

Join artist Charlie Hill for a textile workshop on Hapa Zome and Green Prescribing as part of the Growing Colour Together Project.

Kirkburton, Huddersfield

Communities from across Kirklees will STRUT their stuff on the catwalk celebrating identity through fashion. Plus pop-up skate park, live music & creative activities.

Dewsbury
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Meltham: Mission to Mend

Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.

Meltham
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Night on the Knit 3

The third Night on the Knit - journeys in the world of knit

Huddersfield
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Embroider a Few Words

Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.

Huddersfield
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Embroider a Few Words

Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.

Huddersfield

Join textile artists Elnaz Yazdani and Iqra Rafiq to learn a range of South Asian embroidery techniques for applying small flat mirrors to fabrics.

Huddersfield
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Mirfield: Mission to Mend

Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.

Mirfield

Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.

Heckmondwike

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.

Huddersfield
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Roving Lands

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.

Dewsbury

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.

Huddersfield

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.

Huddersfield

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.

Huddersfield
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Golcar: Mission to Mend

Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.

Golcar, Huddersfield

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!

Huddersfield
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Patterns from India

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.

Huddersfield

Join us for our Growing Colour Together Symposium. We have presentations from artists, designers and researchers exploring Natural Dyes.

Huddersfield

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.

Huddersfield
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Holmfirth: Mission to Mend

Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.

Holmfirth
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Dye Garden Tour

Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees

Thurstonland
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Dye Garden Tour

Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees

Thurstonland
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Dye Garden Tour

Join local artist Isobel Denton @abitmoreink for a tour of her natural dye garden in Kirklees

Thurstonland