What's On

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection including work in stone, wood, glass, ceramics and textiles.

Chinese Knotting is a traditional art and handcraft, using different knots and designs to create a variety of decorative objects and artefacts.

A series of nine individual workshops for people working with textiles.

Students on this course will be shown how to make a simple garment from scratch which will then form the basis for exploring a wide range of embellishment techniques.

Govanhill Baths Community Trust’s Rags to Riches presents the new Spring Program of creative re-use and up-cycling short courses.

Summer sewing and patternmaking for beginners, intermediate and advanced.

This class is a designed to teach beginners everything they need to know about sewing via 3 full day classes. Lunch is included in the price!

Learn to felt using the wet felting technique - perfect for beginners.

Three day introductory workshop on design, warping, loom-set-up and weaving on a 4 shaft table loom to weave your own tweed inspired by the landscape.

Once again Heriot-Watt University's Scottish Borders Campus is setting free another class of highly trained textile graduates ready to make their mark.

Carnaby Market Fair is an eclectic mix of vintage fashion and homewares, cool crafts and all things that are collectable.

Create your very own felt pebble paperweight around a real stone pebble.

Experience the wonders of hand screen printing and create your own unique bag, tea towel or cushion cover.

Three day introductory workshop on design, warping, loom-set-up and weaving on a 4 shaft table loom to weave your own tweed inspired by the landscape.

Create a range of felt beads in different colours, sizes, shapes and styles.

Three day introductory workshop on design, warping, loom-set-up and weaving on a 4 shaft table loom to weave your own tweed inspired by the landscape.

A nine-day open studios event in Central Scotland.

During this 2 day workshop Amy Neville will teach you how to dye with both cold water and natural dyes.

Three day introductory workshop on design, warping, loom-set-up and weaving on a 4 shaft table loom to weave your own tweed inspired by the landscape.

An introduction to the world of natural dyes.

A day out for the clothaholic doesn’t get much better than World Textile Day where you can admire, study, touch and buy fantastic fabrics sourced by genuine world textile experts on their travels around the world.

Create your own custom made pattern and construct a made to measure corset using traditional or modern materials.

Summer School exploring the creative art of tapestry weaving.

Discover the relaxing and fascinating skill of handspinning using a spinning wheel in a two part set of one day workshops designed for complete beginners.

Four day introductory workshop on design, warping, loom-set-up and weaving on a 4 shaft table loom to weave your own tweed inspired by the landscape.

The 20th year of Allanbank’s Open Studios event offers a chance to see work from leading quilt artist, Pauline Burbridge, together with works by Charlie Poulsen and Olivia Lemenech Gill.

4 day Summer School learning how to work with laser cutting on a variety of materials, including paper, card, acrylic, wood and fabric.

Come and try your hand at this great traditional skill and learn some modern techniques.

A new Craft & Food Fair in Edinburgh, run by the Eric Liddell Centre.

This is a week for immersing yourself in the colours, contours and textures of the west highland landscape, translating them through the medium of textile embroidery.

In the course of five days, you will cut, join, applique and quilt to your heart's content. The best results come with allowing your original plan to develop as the making progresses, so don't arrive with too fixed an idea of how your quilt should look.

Working with woven textiles, paper, metal, felt, plastic and ephemera of all kinds.

During this 2 day workshop Tracy will show you techniques including silk shading, canvas work slips and surface embroidery using a design based on a floral Jacobean design.

Beautiful arts, craft and foods in the stunning venue of Drum Castle, by Banchory.

A couching and needle weaving workshop with Toni Hanley using a variety of threads to produce evocative landscapes.

Sheena Norquay will assist you to use a variety of white and cream fabrics to create mini- compositions with squares.

A new Craft & Food Fair in Edinburgh, run by the Eric Liddell Centre.