What’s On
Our artists have a vibrant schedule of events throughout the year.
Cambridge Art Makers
Cambridge Art Makers Screen Printing Course
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, Lintonseries of 5 morning sessions of Screen Printing
Learn to Knit Socks course with Ginette Heard
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonLearn how to knit socks through knitting miniature socks. In this course Ginette will teach you the art of knitting socks in the round through a miniature pattern. Once you've mastered the miniature you can start knitting in life size! This course will include knitting in the round on circular needles or double pointed, and …
Woodland Haberdashery and Jewellery with Fay Jones
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonAn ideal workshop to get confident with wood and hand tools. In the morning we’ll all work on the same projects of shaping a wooden pendant and making a hair stick or crochet hook. In the afternoon the workshop will be more freestyle enabling you to make whatever you’d like – buttons, weaving shuttle, wooden …
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Handspinning course with Fay Jones
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonAn ideal workshop for those looking to have their first forays into hand spinning. YÂÂou will use be able to use both a traditional drop spindle and a spinning wheel to have a go at spinning your own yarn. We’ll be using a range of wool fibres including from a conservation flock in Bury St …
Natural Dyeing | Shades of Yellow course with Fay Jones
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonYellow producers are the most abundant and diverse group of dye plants, giving strong and reliable colours through a variety of means such as bark, leaves and flowers. Spanning warm golds to cool custards, touching nuclear dayglo greens to burnished brasses, it is a group with tone for everyone. We’ll take a closer look at …
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Introduction to Table Loom Weaving course with Jeremy Uden
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonJoin hand-weaver Jeremy Uden for a day-long taste of cloth weaving. You will learn the basics of weaving on a four-shaft table loom, which will be prepared and ready to use. You will draw out the structures on graph paper before weaving them on the loom, giving you a real insight into how weaving actually …
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Linocut for Textiles course with Lydia Finney
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonThis is a lovely introduction to both lino cutting, a printmaking process, and creating your own textiles! On this course Lydia will talk through the basic techniques, how the materials work and what you need (including where to get it) to complete the course and carry on linocutting and printing fabric at home. Her mission …
Glass Painting course with Jill Fordham
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonJoin Jill and learn about how stained glass windows have been decorated with special paints for centuries, and how these techniques are also applied in a contemporary way today. Learn how to mix up your own glass paints and have a go at traditional and contemporary glass painting techniques yourself. After experimenting, produce your own …
Beginners Silver Jewellery | Make a Ring course with Rebecca Ilett
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonRebecca will help you design and make a ring in a day! Create your own unique jewellery, make a bespoke piece to gift to someone special or to wear yourself. This course provides the opportunity to explore the basics in jewellery and silversmithing techniques. The well equipped studio enables students to learn a wide range …
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Wild by Design | Wild Weaving course with Fay Jones
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonUsing a simple weaving frame and a wide variety of materials, come and spend a relaxing day creating a wonderful piece of free style weaving. Long, short, wide or thin; choose to focus on colour, texture or a different theme – you decide! There will be a wide variety of commercial, hand spun and hand …
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Silver Charm Casting course with Rebecca Ilett
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonThis course will give you the opportunity to explore delft clay casting and cuttlefish casting. Rebecca will take you through the process of developing and designing ideas, making moulds and casting objects in silver. You will file and finish the cast pieces and can add a loop for it to be a charm.
Rag Rugging with Fay Jones
Cambridge Art Makers 6 Lintech Ct, LintonRag rugs are a great way to use up old textiles and turn them into something beautiful and useful for your home. Join us and enjoy a relaxed day making traditional ‘proddy’ style rag rugs (strips of fabric poked and knotted through a base fabric, in our case hessian). We will have lots of material …