As part of the Growing Colour Together project the WOVEN team have put together a series of talks,...
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As part of the Growing Colour Together project the WOVEN team have put together a series of talks,...
Learn how to create a solar dyed silk scarf using natural dyes and tie dye techniques including shibori inspired tying techniques.
Batley
Exhibition of books, photographs and dye samples exploring the textile heritage of Kirklees.
Huddersfield
Join artist Charlie Hill for a textile workshop on Hapa Zome and Green Prescribing as part of the Growing Colour Together Project.
Kirkburton, Huddersfield
Join us at one of our free community workshops in Golcar, where a skilled workshop practitioner will be...
Longwood, Huddersfield
An exhibition that shows, from the Victorians until now, how you can make do and mend to help the environment.
Huddersfield
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.
Huddersfield
North of England Premiere at Hebden Bridge Picture House
Come and help us make a dye garden in Dewsbury town centre before the WOVEN 2023 festival starts!
A display of natural dyeing on fabric, fleece and yarn
Skelmanthorpe
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.
Hanging display of a knitted and crocheted 2D representation of the village.
Flockton
We have been growing colour around, and yarn bombing the front of the Community Centre.
Lindley, Huddersfield
Friends and family will yarn bomb the Manchester Road area of Linthwaite, the Christmas tree area on Hoyle...
Hill Tree Park is a park home community of 200 people over 50 in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield We...
Huddersfield
Outlane Crafters will be yarnbombing the planters, with a flower arch, outside Outlane Community Project on New Hay...
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.
Dalton
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.
Holmfirth
An exhibition of locally made woven goods
Slaithwaite
An exhibition of quilts and textile pieces using recycled materials and traditional processes.
Holmfirth
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
An exhibition incorporating the stories of natural and synthetic dyestuffs in Huddersfield.
Huddersfield
Come and join us to learn the basics of using leaves, plant life, and even your kitchen waste to create fabulous dyed fabrics.
Huddersfield
Join us to make a Macramé hanger of colourful chord or recycled tee-shirt materials and a hand-built ceramic pot over two workshops
Slaithwaite
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.
Unique opportunity to visit a modern working textile mill
Huddersfield
Your chance to come and see where the Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection is stored and glimpse a few of its treasures.
Slaithwaite
An afternoon in the garden, honouring the deep roots of textile heritage and local growing spaces in our area
Huddersfield
A talk that paints a picture of textile heritage through the lens of the industrial revolution, with Professor Abigail Harrison Moore and Nicola Redmore.
Huddersfield
Teachers working in Kirklees are invited to a 1 hour tour of OXFAM’s Northern Logistics Centre in Batley
Batley
Create your own plant hanger from eco friendly cords!
Huddersfield
Yarn bomb installations in Slaithwaite featuring many kinds of woolly hats
An exhibition of quilts at Huddersfield Art Gallery in the Piazza Shopping Centre, and at the Bagshaw Museum, Batley.
Huddersfield
An exhibition of quilts at Huddersfield Art Gallery in the Piazza Shopping Centre, and at the Bagshaw Museum, Batley.
Batley
An exhibition of festival headdresses and other artworks celebrating natural dyes.
Huddersfield
Graduate Showcase for students from the School of Arts and Humanities.
Huddersfield
Drop in event for children and families weaving a fabric seabed complete with watery sounds
Huddersfield
Bring your own project or help us make blankets and scarves for charity. Everyone welcome.
Flockton
Join volunteers from the Threads of Survival quilt project to make your own quilt square, to add to the quilt.
Huddersfield
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Meltham
Open Day at our regular monthly meeting
Kirkheaton
See how woven fabrics are manufactured with a tour of the warping and weaving departments.
Holmfirth
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.
Holmfirth
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"
Huddersfield
The third Night on the Knit - journeys in the world of knit
Huddersfield
A social sewing group. Bring along any hand stitch project (mending, embroidery, knitting, crochet, patchwork, etc) and make and chat alongside others.
Holmfirth
Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.
Huddersfield
Learn how to use different punch needle tools, materials and make a start on your own punch needle artwork.
Huddersfield
Join the ‘Give a Few Words’ team & textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles to stitch a few uplifting words and spread some cheer.
Huddersfield
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.
Huddersfield
Learn how to use different punch needle tools, materials and make a start on your own punch needle artwork.
Huddersfield
Explore Huddersfield's textile mill heritage as inspiration, as you learn to work with discarded materials in the creation of your own woven cloth.
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
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Mirfield
Make your own festival headdress, with materials included and tutors to guide you.
Huddersfield
Mission to Mend roadshows celebrate the importance of creative hand sewing for textile repair and the difference it can make in local communities.
Heckmondwike
Our celebration of making brings you a boutique marketplace of beautiful things from some of the finest makers in the county and beyond.
Slaithwaite
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
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
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
Huddersfield
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
Breathe some new life into an old t-shirt at this workshop, using screen printing and block printing techniques.
Huddersfield
Have you always wanted to learn how to draw with your machine? This is the workshop for you.
Huddersfield
Make your own festival headdress, with materials included and tutors to guide you.
Huddersfield
Using fabrics, nature (leaves, lace and fabric wood-blocks) to create patterns and textures, we will be creating porcelain buttons and trinket bowl.
Slaithwaite
A celebration of natural dye, gardens and the contribution made by the communities of Kirkburton Parish. Textiles, music and connection.
Kirkburton, Huddersfield
Join Grow To School and textile artist Kayleigh Davis (ocre) for this exciting Flower Forensics workshop.
Huddersfield
Join artist Kathy Shepherd to try your hand at this traditional textile technique of Hookie Rug-making.
Huddersfield
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.
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.
Huddersfield
Join us to enjoy live music in the Punjabi tradition and film screenings about life in the Kirklees textile industries.
Huddersfield
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.
Meltham, Holmfirth
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
Join local textile artist Kayleigh Davis on a foraging walk for natural dye plants.
A two hour practical workshop at Greenhead College to introduce natural dyeing, with dyes made from kitchen scraps or cuttings from your garden.
Huddersfield
Join us for our monthly craft group (knit and natter) in our yarn bombed gardens.
Dalton
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.
Mirfield
A two hour practical workshop at Greenhead College to introduce natural dyeing, with dyes made from kitchen scraps or cuttings from your garden.
Huddersfield
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
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
This talk examines the presence of fur on the Shakespearean stage as a signifier that stretches across the lines of species, class, and race.
Huddersfield
Join us with your old loved clothes for this unique step-by-step workshop for beginners in visible mending, embrace the patch!
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
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
Clothes swap and sewing workshop in Huddersfield at the Thread Republic Textiles Hub.
Huddersfield
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 craft tutor and maker Kim Searle for a relaxed and informative workshop learning Rag Rug techniques with a modern twist!
Huddersfield
Guided factory tour (limited to 10 people) of a woollen yarn spinner making stock supported and custom weaving and knitting yarns
Lockwood, Huddersfield
Join Cathie Sivinska McCartan from the MA in Creative Pattern Cutting course at the University of Huddersfield to learn how to give your used clothes a new lease of life.
Huddersfield
Local textile artists Dionne Swift and Nicola Perren will talk about their artist practice and their experiences of quilting communities.
Huddersfield
What better way to have some you time and learn something new. Once you've learnt the basics you'll be hooked
Huddersfield
Hear textile artists Richard McVetis, David Morrish and Andi Walker discussing their experiences and artistic practices.
Huddersfield
Discover patchwork and quilting as we make quilts that will be given to young people as they leave the care of the Local Authority and begin independent living.
Meltham
An exhibition of banners made from silk and other textiles to celebrate the Christian Calendar
Huddersfield
Family friendly, outdoor, drop in workshop to explore plant printing in a beautiful community garden setting
Families are invited to the University of Huddersfield for tours, talks and demonstrations celebrating education, training and careers in textile manufacturing, science, innovation and design.
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
Have you enjoyed taking part in the WOVEN 2023 Growing Colour Together project? If so we would love...
Kirkburton, Huddersfield
Have you enjoyed taking part in the WOVEN 2023 Growing Colour Together project? We would love to hear...
Huddersfield
Have you enjoyed taking part in the WOVEN 2023 Growing Colour Together project? We would love to hear...
Dewsbury
Learn about the art of rust printing using a range of wires and found objects to create interesting...
Batley
Home school/education workshops, looking at how natural inks and stains can be used creatively to learn about art, science and history.
Dewsbury
Join us over the next twelve months on a journey into understanding Woad as a natural dye, ink and plant.
Batley
Come along to Birkby and Fartown Library on the 28th of November for a create and chat session as we rip up the WOVEN programme and remake it for 2025! It's time to ask what the future of WOVEN looks like. Come along and let us know..
Huddersfield
Huddersfield Stitch Social & WOVEN Consultation at the Hub, which will be an opportunity to share your thoughts about WOVEN in Kirklees and what you'd like to see from the festival in the future.
Huddersfield
WOVEN and Thread Republic will be at the Dewsbury Lights switch on and Xmas Market to help you make Xmas tree decorations come along and say hello!
Dewsbury
Join us upstairs at Holmfirth Library for a demonstration of heritage textile skills and an opportunity to get hands on with the techniques.
Holmfirth
Working together WOVEN and Thread Republic invite you to a makers mingle, an opportunity to meet other makers, share business ideas and challenges, find out what, how and where other makers in Kirklees are working. We also ask that you take some time to talk about what you need from WOVEN in the future.
Huddersfield
WOVEN and Kirklees Year of Music teams invite you to a screening of STRUT, a short film and exhibition celebrating creativity in Dewsbury
Dewsbury
WOVEN started its festival journey in 2019 with a series of open planning sessions so that people could tell us what they wanted from he festival. in 2023 / 2024 its time to ask again, what does the future of WOVEN look like! come along and let us know!
Dewsbury
Drop in at any time to visit the FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY EXHIBITION! The exhibition celebrates the people of Kirklees...
Dewsbury
FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY EXHIBITION Community Event THIS EVENT WILL BE AN ACTIVE SPACE FOR MAKING. Full of fun workshops...
Dewsbury
FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY EXHIBITION Visit the Exhibition and Drop-in with the WOVEN Team The exhibition celebrates the people of...
Dewsbury
WOVEN is looking to the future and how our schools stakeholders can help to shape it. We need to know what WOVEN can do to support you!
Gomersal
A workshop where you can make scrap fabric mache bowls and boxes.
Huddersfield
This online discussion brings together artists, academic researchers and community organisations to explore the potentials and futures of...
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