Weaving Courses

"I had a fantastic 4 days with you and learnt so much. The best birthday gift I could give myself! You are such an inspirational teacher - it all comes from the heart. I just learnt so much, even things I was sure I would never get my head around like reading a design on a piece of fabric and understanding how to make the draft for it! Your patience, encouragement and confidence in my ability to achieve what I wanted to do on the 4 shaft has just got me so fired up it's hard to keep a lid on the ideas in my head I now want to weave. Maybe it's a good job time is the lacking factor at the moment!!
Not only did I have such fun weaving and challenging my brain but the luxury of staying in your wonderful old house with great company -what more could a girl want! I have already recommended you to friends but I will definitely be back for more" Barbara Wolter Spring 2011

"Thank you so much for my 2 day weaving course. It was wonderful to have your expert tuition! I am thrilled to have learned so much and I'm keen to learn more now." Carmel McCourt

"Thank you so much for the trouble you took to explain everything in simple terms and for making the learning process so much fun. I really learned so much over the three days and now feel much more confident about all aspects of weaving. My little sample was very much admired and I do feel that I can get much more out of my loom than I ever expected too. Oh and the Staffordshire oat cakes were very good!" Penny Leonard

"My week with you was everything I had hoped for and more. Thanks to your encouragement and calm guidance I have managed to brush up on the basics of weaving and now have the confidence to develop this further, and the possibilities seem endless! Thank you so much." Sonja Aldengard

"I would recommended this course, which can be 1 week or 2 weeks, for anybody who feels they need to learn more about intermediate to advanced weaving. For those who don’t know exactly where they should go next, Stacey’s tailor-made approach allows one to explore different structures. For those who do know, she is extremely knowledgeable in multi-shaft structures, Jacquard weaving and texture weaving." Florence Harmelin

Interested in jacquard weaving? An intensive 2 week course for advanced weavers may be just the thing.

"I thoroughly enjoyed my workshop with you, it was a dream come true! It...gave me a huge understanding as it was done in the olden age...Your workshop gave me a good grounding, and whatever loom I might acquire in the future, it will be of great benefit to me." Agnes Hauptli

Learn how to weave in easy stages, choose your own patterns, your colour and yarn choices, and take home your weaving. More information

Specially designed for complete beginners to weaving, you are gently taken on a journey of discovery, designing, warping and weaving your very first piece of fabric. WARNING: Weaving can become addictive!!

Price includes 2 full days and 2 half-days teaching, 3 nights B&B, and lunches. Also all yarns used (except silk and cashmere) are included. £425

Alternatively, you can come for a 3 day course (Friday to Sunday starting Friday 10am)	*£390*
Non-residential	£320 including lunch

Brush up on your weaving skills and learn invaluable hints n tips to keep you weaving easily. More information

If you are coming back to weaving after a break, if you want to brush up on design skills, revise your warping methods, learn a new technique or acquire some useful hints to improve your weaving skill, you will enjoy this course. On your own portable loom, or on one of mine, you can try out new things, hone your knowledge and increase your weaving expertise!

Price includes 2 full days and 2 half-days teaching, 3 nights B&B and lunches. Also all yarns used (except silk and cashmere) are included. £425

Alternatively, you can come for a 3 day course (Friday to Monday starting Friday 10am)	*£390*
Non-residential	£320 including lunch

If you want to develop skills discovered on the Taster Break, or as a more experienced weaver you want to learn new techniques, you can have a week or two specially tailored to your individual requirements. More information

1 or 2 week courses give you thorough grounding in your topic(s) and many useful insights, hints n tips to improve your weaving skill. You can focus on a specific topic, a family of weaves, or learn how to advance to 8 shafts and more. It's entirely up to you!

For 1 Week Price includes 5 days teaching, 6 nights B&B (Sun-Sat) and lunches. Yarns are charged extra at cost.

For 5 days, 6 nights course £735

Non-residential

£575 including lunch

For 2 weeks Price includes 10 days teaching, 13 nights B&B, and lunches. Yarns are charged extra at cost.

For 10 days, 13 nights course £1505

Non-residential

£1,150 including lunch

Not for the faint-hearted and suitable for advanced weavers with a thorough understanding of weave structure, this intensive course gives you a grounding of how jacquard looms work and the design skills involved... More information

You learn the basics of jacquard weaving, how the loom works, designing on computer, card cutting and lacing, and weaving on 4 different sample looms. It's helpful if you have familiarity with a computer design programme such as CorelDraw/CorelPaint, or Adobe Photoshop. You can also visit the wonderful Macclesfield Silk Museum, to see a variety of jacquard looms.

Price includes 11 days teaching, 13 nights B&B and lunches. Yarns are charged extra at cost.

£1,610


Non-residential	£1310 including lunch

Main Studio: 4 shaft Ashford table loom (with pedal attachment), 8 shaft Ashford table loom, 24 shaft AVL Compu-Dobby I floor loom, yarn store, ancilliary equipment, library of design books, weaving books, wet room for dyeing and finishing, 2 laptop computers with Fiberworks-PCW and WeavePoint 6.4 software for designing, ArahWeave, Photoshop and Corel suites for jacquard designing, samples collection.

Stables Workshop: 4 sample hand-jacquard looms with different set ups, bobbin winder, ancilliary equipment, yarns. Cutting and lacing equipment for jacquard looms.