Workshops at Handmade Nottingham
Workshops at Handmade Nottingham
Get creative at Handmade Nottingham with our range of workshops.
Make and Fable
Beginners Weaving Workshop
Saturday 20th April / 1-4pm / £38pp
Create a textured wall hanging in this beginners weaving workshop!
You will learn how to warp up a loom, create plain weave, rya knots, soumak weave, fringing, tufting, work with wool roving and attach your finished weaving onto a wooden dowel for hanging.
Choose from a wide selection of colourful wools, yarns, fibres and cords to make a fun, textured weaving.
No previous weaving experience required.
Hallo Ceramics
Candle Holder Pair Workshop
Sunday 21st April / 12-2.30pm / £42pp
In this session, Heather, the founder of HALLO Ceramics, will be guiding you through how to create your very own pair of Candle Holders starting from just a ball of clay. These can either be fit for tea lights or dinner candles. The workshop will start with a demonstration with detailed explanations of each step, then you will proceed to create your very own pair!
Using the specialist tools and glazes available, you will bring your candle holder's alive by adding extra details and colour with underglazes.
This is your time and space to indulge into your creative side and learn a few skills and make a few friends along the way. This session will be a small and intimate collection of like-minded people. No previous pottery experience is required, all of your tools and materials are provided. Heather will be on hand throughout to assist you through your make. After the session, your pots will then be taken home and professionally fired and glazed in Heather's kiln and then returned back to you to cherish forever.
Yasmin Cousins
Spooky Sips! Half Way To Halloween Workshop
Saturday 4th May / 11.30am - 1.30pm / £30pp
Do you crave cobwebs and costumes year-round? Does the thought of chilling autumn nights send shivers of delight down your spine?
Early May means we're half way to spooky season, so join us for a hauntingly fun Halfway to Halloween Workshop!
In this workshop, you'll unleash your inner ghoul and transform a plain summer drinking glass into a hauntingly beautiful piece of spooky art. There will be a selection of frightfully fun vinyl designs – think ghosts, bats, pumpkins, and more – to decorate your glass with.
You'll also have your very own mini coffin hanging decoration to adorn with devilish designs.
Yasmin will provide all of the tools and tips to guide you through applying decals that last. And of course, she'll be on hand to help and guide throughout
Sap Plants
Terrarium Workshop
Saturday 11th May / 11am - 12.30pm / £50pp
In this workshop you will be provided with everything you need to make your own bottled garden:
- Glass bottle & Cork.
- A selection of terrarium friendly plants.
- An illustrated care card.
The workshop will begin with a step by step demonstration from Chan, who will explain each step thoroughly.
After the demonstration you will then build your own terrarium at your own pace, Chan will be available for assistance and advice throughout.
Please note that due to participants working at different speeds, some people may finish before others.
Chan invites you to stick around and ask any plant care questions you might have, it's a nice oppurtunity to get to know other plant enthusiasts and share tips and tricks.
Get Lit Books
Get Lit Book Club - Penance
Sunday 12th May / 1pm- 3pm / £10pp
In May Get Lit Book Club will be reading Eliza Clark's 'Penance'
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them?
It’s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being
published for the first time.
That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec Z.
Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the ‘definitive account’ of the murder – and what led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves, the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
The only question is: how much of it is true?
Ticket price includes snacks & drinks.
Hallo Ceramics
Lidded Pot Workshop
Saturday 18th May / 12-2pm / £39
In this session, Heather, the owner of HALLO Ceramics, will be guiding you through how to create your very own 'Lidded Pot' starting from just a ball of clay. The workshop will start with a demonstration with detailed explanations of each step, then you will proceed to create your very own pot! Using the specialist tools and glazes available, you will bring your pot alive by adding extra details and using the available colours to adorn your pot with patterns and shapes.
No previous pottery experience is required, all of your tools and materials are provided, and Heather will be on hand throughout to assist you through your make. After the session, your pots will then be taken home and professionally fired and glazed in Heather's kiln and then returned back to you to cherish forever.
Lee Mattocks
Leather Saddle Bag Workshop
Saturday 25th May/ 10.30am-1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm / £65pp
Learn how to make your own leather accessories with award winning textile and leather designer Lee Mattocks. Lee also teaches fashion design and specialist skills at Nottingham Trent University so you will be in good hands throughout the workshop and receive lots of advice and support.
During this 2 hour workshop you will make 1 saddle bag. You will learn about innovative pattern cutting and how to fold and attach all the leather fittings and fixtures such as buckles, rivets and studs. You don't need any previous experience for this workshop which is easy-intermediate level.
Karen Miele Art
Beginners Lino Print Workshop
Saturday 1st June / 10:30 - 13:30 / £38pp plus booking fee
Spend the morning getting inky! and learn how to design, carve and print your own designs using the lino cut technique.
In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn:
How to create a design perfect for lino print
How to transfer your drawing onto lino
How to carve a lino block, and use different techniques to create interesting patterns
How to mix inks to create your own colours
How to print your designs
How to sign and edition your prints
Suitable for beginners
Price £38 (plus booking fee) - includes tea and biscuits!
Hallo Ceramics
Portrait Pot Workshop
Saturday 22nd June / 12-2pm/ £39pp
In this session, Heather, the owner of HALLO Ceramics, will be guiding you through how to create your very own 'Portrait Pot' starting from just a ball of clay. The workshop will start with a demonstration with detailed explanations of each step, then you will proceed to create your very own pot! Using the specialist tools and glazes available, you will bring your pot alive by adding extra details and using the available colours to adorn your pot.
No previous pottery experience is required, all of your tools and materials are provided and Heather will be on hand throughout to assist you through your make. After the session, your pots will then be taken home and professionally fired and glazed in Heather's kiln and then returned back to you to cherish forever.
Hallo Ceramics
Snack Bowl Workshop
Sunday 23rd June / 12-2pm/ £39pp
In this session, Heather, the owner of HALLO Ceramics, will be guiding you through how to create your very own 'Snack bowl' starting from just a ball of clay. The workshop will start with a demonstration with detailed explanations of each step, then you will proceed to create your very own bowl! Using the specialist tools and glazes available, you will bring your bowl alive by adding extra details and using the available colours to adorn your bowls with patterns and shapes.
No previous pottery experience is required, all of your tools and materials are provided and Heather will be on hand throughout to assist you through your make. After the session, your plates will then be taken home and professionally fired and glazed in Heather's kiln and then returned back to you to cherish forever.
Karen Miele
Beginners Lino Print Workshop
Saturday 6th July / 10:30 - 13:30 / £38pp plus booking fee
Spend the morning getting inky! and learn how to design, carve and print your own designs using the lino cut technique.
In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn:
How to create a design perfect for lino print
How to transfer your drawing onto lino
How to carve a lino block, and use different techniques to create interesting patterns
How to mix inks to create your own colours
How to print your designs
How to sign and edition your prints
Suitable for beginners
Price £38 (plus booking fee) - includes tea and biscuits!
Get Lit Books
Get Lit Book Club - The Cloisters
Sunday 14th July / 1pm- 3pm / £10pp
The Cloisters by Katy Hays...Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art.
Drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, Ann happy to indulge some of their more outlandish theories, including the museum's curator who is fixated on tarot and the real possibility of predicting the future.
But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition.And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide who she trusts.
Ticket price includes snacks & drinks.
Lee Mattocks
Leather Bucket Bag Workshop
Saturday 27th July / 10.30am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm / £65pp
Using only hand skills and simple tools you will create your own top quality genuine leather bag in only 2.5 hours. you can choose from a range of available colours in each workshop or mix and match to create a 1 of a kind bag and statement piece.
The new bucket bag is handcrafted with a studded 'factory free' seam design in responsibly sourced leather from the Netherlands. The thick and study leather is designed to be robust, built to last and has a protective finish so you can remove any marks. The bags are finished with Italian chrome hardware throughout and it’s sourced from Italy.
Get Lit Books
Get Lit Book Club - Private Rites
Sunday 13th October / 1pm- 3pm / £10pp
Private Rites by Julia Armfield...
The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice.
Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.
As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Soon it becomes clear that others have also taken an interest in both his estate and in them, and that perhaps their inheritance may not be theirs alone.
Ticket price includes snacks & drinks.
