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London Craft Week 2024: Waterloo Centre

Explore interactive craft workshops led by well-known artists and makers at our historic Waterloo Centre for adult education. Walk in the footsteps of Edward Bawden, Bridget Riley, Maggi Habmling, Denzil Forrester and Oli Epp as you try textiles, jewellery, ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking and fashion.

By linking art and practical skills, people can make a living doing what they love. But it’s also about the people you meet along your journey. Come and join us for London Craft Week 2024 and find your call.

Read on below for a list of all the workshops we will be running. Click the pink ‘Book Now’ button to the left of the screen to choose the workshops of your choice. All workshops are 拢20.00 per person and some workshops may have additional material fees.

Workshops

Monday 13 May:Ceramics

10:00 – 1:00 Decorating China with Transfers: An opportunity to create your own unique, hand-decorated piece of China using ceramic transfers. You will explore design ideas with exciting visual resources provided by your tutor.  A piece of fine white glazed china is provided which we kiln-fire to make the transfers professional and permanent, ready for you to collect a week later by arrangement.

2:00 – 5:00 Decorating China with Transfers: An opportunity to create your own unique, hand-decorated piece of China using ceramic transfers. You will explore design ideas with exciting visual resources provided by your tutor.  A piece of fine white glazed china is provided which we kiln-fire to make the transfers professional and permanent, ready for you to collect a week later by arrangement.

Tuesday 14 May: Textiles

10:00 – 1:00pm Start Stitching: Textile Trapunto Sampler Workshop (with Debby Brown): Learn all the foundation embroidery stitches and take away an attractive and unique 鈥渢rapunto鈥 stuffed sampler to continue at home. These techniques can be used to embellish and refashion clothing or as unusual mending methods.

2:00 – 5:00pm Off Loom Weaving & Wrapping Taster Workshop (with Justine Randall): Textile weaving meets sculpture. Create forms with a mixture of off loom techniques, using raffia, wire and materials of your choice to weave, wrap and twist any variety of 3D shapes in a free and imaginative way.

Friday 17 May: Japanese Calligraphy and Card Making

11:00 – 1:00pm Calligraphy (with Hisano Luttman): Join us for London Craft Week work here at Waterloo Centre.  Here you will have the opportunity to learn a few words in Japanese and to unleash your creative juices. Hisano Luttman is a Japanese language tutor at 快播成人网. She is also an artist and the daughter of a鈥痗alligraphy鈥痬aster. Having developed her skills in this craft over the years, she now not only teaches Japanese language, but also Japanese鈥痗alligraphy.

1:30 – 3:00pm Japanese Card Making (with Hisano Luttman): If you are interested in Japanese and would like to make your own cards for or for any festive occasion, join us for this Japanese card-making workshop? You will have the opportunity to learn a few words in Japanese and to unleash your creative juices. Hisano Luttman is a languages tutor at 快播成人网. She is also an artist and the daughter of a calligraphy master. Having developed her skills in this craft over the years, she now not only teaches Japanese language, but also Japanese calligraphy.

Saturday 18 May: Calligraphy

11:00 – 1:00pm CalligraphyMaking your Own Letters (with Ivo Grantins): Learn the use of calligraphy tools and techniques in letter design through the centuries. The workshop aims at illuminating the principles behind various historical letter forms and gives you an opportunity to try out calligraphy. You will try your hand in some scripts with a number of historical tools (quill, square cut or pointed pen).

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Saturday 18 May: Textiles

11:00 – 1:00pm Costume Workshop 鈥 Neck Ruff: (with Sharon Steed): There are as many ways to construct neck ruffs as there are people who have constructed them. You will learn the construction techniques of ruffs and how they worn and how to wear them yourself.

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11:00 – 1:00pm Fashion Workshop 鈥 Pattern Puzzles: All patterns are puzzles, but these are a particular puzzler. We explore some of the simplest shapes and see what can be made from them that you can actually wear.