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Experience the joy of making with West Dean’s series of craft taster sessions. From bookbinding, to automata, leatherwork and more, you can try something new and Make Your Mark.

As part of London Craft Week West Dean: London will also play host to Craft Here, Craft Now. An interactive exhibition of objects crafted by emerging makers, that shares the hidden stories behind their making. Through images, showreels and live demonstrations, the hours of painstaking skill needed to make a piece of fine furniture, carve a viol body from solid timber or transform sheet metal into a beautiful timepiece, deploying often under threat crafts, is brought into stark reality.  

Alongside this, the interactive ‘West Dean: Craft Here, Craft Now’ exhibition presents a collection of crafted objects and shares the hidden stories behind their making. Find out more at westdean.ac.uk.

West Dean: London Craft Taster Sessions

Thursday 15th May 10:30 – 13:00, 14:00 – 16:30 – Pamphlet Bookbinding Workshop

Friday 16th May 10:30 – 13:00, 14:00-16:30  – Mini Patchwork Collage

Saturday 17th May 10:30 – 13:00, 14:00 – 16:30 – Automata Making Workshop: Tinned Automata

Sunday 18th May 10:30 – 13:00, 14:00 – 16:30 – Experience Leather Working

London Craft Week Short Courses

Monday 12th May 10:30 – 17:15 –  Art Textiles: Stitch with Found Objects

Thursday 15th May 10:15 – 17:15 – Couture Micro-Beading Embroidery: An Introduction

Friday 16th May 10:30 – 17:15 – Introduction to Bookbinding

Saturday 17th May 10:30 – 17:15 – Weaving on a Backstrap Loom

Sunday 18th May 10:30 – 17:15 – Introduction to Tapestry Weaving