Bath Preservation Trust is running a programme of creative classes and workshops for adults across its museums. The workshops, all of which are led by local artists and facilitators, are designed to encourage learning and engagement with people in and around the city.
The workshops will take place at No.1 Royal Crescent and can be booked directly through the museum’s website: https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/whats-on/. Concessions are available.
Priced competitively, the workshops will include all materials and resources to make attending as accessible as possible.
Ellie Giles, Learning and Engagement Officer at Bath Preservation Trust, said, “Our children’s learning and engagement programme is well-established, with active outreach and school trips all year round. We feel that adult learning and development is also very important, and we hope that this new programme is inspiring people to try something new and perhaps discover a new passion.”
Patrizia Ribul, Director of Museums at Bath Preservation Trust, added, “We are really enjoying working with local artists and using the spaces in our museums as a hub to foster creative learning. Loneliness and isolation in adults is extremely common, something which only seems to have increased during the pandemic, and workshops such as these can be a great way to meet like-minded people and make new friends.
“As a Bath-based charity it was important to us to work with local experts and we are really pleased to have connected with some of the city’s most talented artists. We are striving to make these workshops as accessible as possible in line with our organisational objectives around inclusion, and welcome access requests and comments to the email address email hidden; JavaScript is required.”
The next event in the programme is:
Creative Visible Mending Workshop
30 August @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
£45 per person
Believe it or not, the end of August is the perfect time to dig out our woollens while there is time to enjoy sprucing them up for the winter months to come.
Open to all abilities, this relaxed workshop will cover a range of visible mending techniques for knitted materials:
- darning
- reverse darning
- applique
- Swiss darning
If there is have enough time, the workshop will also look at how decorative stitches can be turned to practical use with chain, blanket (honeycomb) and seed stitches.
With expert guidance and enthusiastic support, add new charm to your existing belongings and give them a whole new lease of life.
Duration of workshop: 2 hours
What’s included?
- Mending materials – sewing notions and threads (feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you prefer)
- Tea and coffee will be available
- A test swatch to practise on (or bring your damaged woollens to dive straight in!)
- Concession price available (Seniors 65+, Student, NHS, Blue Light)
Suitable for 16 years old and above.
Note: The workshop space is accessible via lift. If you have any access needs please let us know so we can support you in any way possible.
About the artist:
Founder of Bath’s new Love Makers Craft Cafe, Anna has been making and mending for as long as she can remember. She drew copiously, learning about saws and soldering irons at her father’s knee; then was a fine art and ceramics scholar before life aboard her first houseboat cemented her passion for creating, repairing and making do.
“Visible mending builds on the idea of functional repair to extend the life of a broken object while enabling us to explore our creativity and ingenuity,” said Anna. “Now more than ever, it’s important to love what we have anew – and by learning this satisfying process of repairing our belongings, we can.”