Textiles

● A craft at Handsel

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Four rooms, one studio

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OUR APPROACH

How we teach it.

Our textile room grows its own colour. We weave, stitch and dye with plants from the studio garden, and we care as much about where a fibre comes from as what it becomes.

IN THE ROOM

Four-shaft table looms, frame looms, an indigo vat that has been alive since 2019 and a dye garden of madder, weld and woad.

Made in this room.

A few pieces from recent classes. Yours will look different, which is rather the point.

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Striped wall hanging

Wool, Frame Loom Weaving

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Striped wall hanging

Wool, Frame Loom Weaving

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Plant-dyed skeins

Wool, Natural Dyeing

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Plant-dyed skeins

Wool, Natural Dyeing

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Botanical hoop

Linen and silk, Natural Dyeing

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Botanical hoop

Linen and silk, Natural Dyeing

I look at onion skins completely differently now. My sample book is my favourite thing.

Margaret E., Natural Dyeing

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Taught by someone
who still makes.

Every class in this craft is led by the same tutor, so you get to know each other and your work gets better, week by week.

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● Your tutor

Textiles

Ada Okafor

Dyer and weaver

Grows half of the dye garden herself.

Teaching since 2014

At Handsel, Bristol

Four rooms

Curious about another craft?

Four rooms under one roof. Plenty of our students move benches after their first class.

Four rooms

Curious about another craft?

Four rooms under one roof. Plenty of our students move benches after their first class.

Visit

18 Kiln Yard

Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY

Hours

Mon–Fri 9:00–21:00
Sat–Sun 10:00–18:00

Come and make something.

New dates, open studio evenings and the odd kiln opening. One email a month, never more.

Come and make something.

New dates, open studio evenings and the odd kiln opening. One email a month, never more.

Handsel

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