Wednesday Courses

Upholstery
Learn skills that will show you how to renovate a much-loved piece of furniture or how you can transform a second hand stool or chair into a useful, attractive household item. Learn about wood, it’s care and finishes, understand why it is necessary to use upholstery fabrics and how to handle the correct tools.

Pattern Cutting
For those who would like to learn the skills to make a pattern that can be used time and time again to make clothes for yourself that fit as they should. A good pattern is the basis of all good garment construction. You will learn how to make your own block patterns and how to adapt them for a skirt, trousers and tops for yourself. Further study will involve creating more detailed designs, for example shirts and jackets.

Garment Construction
Skills to enable you to take your sewing that one step further to achieve a professional finish to your garments. You will be able to make clothes to fit yourself, and learn how to make a skirt, trousers, top and how to set sleeves, pockets and much more.

Textile Art Craft & Design
We aim to bring out the artist in you with this creative and experimental course. Explore a number of textile processes such as paper and felt making, printing and dyeing, embroidery, knit, weave and ragrug to produce exciting textiles. Design work will be developed through simple drawing and ideas will be developed into final outcomes for clothing and accessories appropriate to different cultures or interiors and pieces of textile art. This course will provide a basis for further study in art and design.

Develop your IT Skills
This course is for complete beginners as well as for those who would like to develop their IT skills for personal or professional use. You will be able to learn the skills that interest you at your own pace. The course will include word processing, database, spreadsheets, email and Internet and multimedia applications.

Lingerie
Learn to create beautiful lingerie to suit your own size and style. A course which teaches you the very special techniques needed to handle the sometimes tricky fabrics which are often used when making underwear, stretch bodies, nightwear, even sportswear or swimwear.

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