From Textile To Metal: A closer look at Folk Art with Julia Griffiths Jones & Selvedge Magazine
Saturday 8-15 August 2020
Over the course of the week Julia Griffiths Jones will share her knowledge and enthusiasm for textiles from Eastern Europe where she studied the local folk art and culture. She’ll introduce you to new ways of interpreting a number of textile processes including weaving and embroidery as well as historical techniques for metalworking learned in Slovakia.
During the course, Julia will demonstrate how to manipulate steel and aluminium wire using simple hand tools. You’ll learn to shape metalwork into delicate and original pieces and to weave, stitch and embroider folk art motifs within your metal framework.
Denise Lambert will visit during the week to lead a day of dyeing with woad, the blue dye popular in the Toulouse area during medieval times.You can bring items such as thread and yarn to dye and incorporate in your work if you choose. You’ll also have the opportunity to buy garments and items from Fabienne, a dealer in vintage textiles who will visit us during the week.
Julia will also teach drawing as a way to expand upon your personal interests in the textiles and at the end of the course, there will be a day spent learning to make an accordion-folded book which will contain all of the drawings you have made during the course.
On Sunday morning we will visit the atmospheric food and craft market in the medieval town of St Antonin Noble Val which was used as the backdrop to the films “Charlotte Grey” and “The Hundred Foot Journey”.
Essential information
Single or double occupancy luxury and standard rooms available From €2150-€3300 per participant, €1500 non-participant Non-refundable deposit on bookingFirst instalment of 30% due on 1 November 2019
Full balance due 1 May 2020 Minimum 8 participants. Maximum 12 participants Workshop held in English Included 7 nights full board, (one dinner out at guests' cost). 4.5 days full-time tuition. All workshop materials. Trips to local markets Excluded Airfares to France. Airport transfers available at extra cost
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Chris F, Germany
Julia Griffiths Jones
During her studies at The Royal College of Art, Julia travelled to Slovakia to study folk art and culture. Inspired and influenced by the textiles created by women alongside domestic duties she translates textile techniques such as embroidery, stitching, weaving into wire and metal form changing its original nature and function, but retaining its meaning. Juliagriffithsjones.co.uk
Denise lambert
Denise Lambert is a regular at Chateau Dumas, Denise has been dyeing with woad (Isatis Tinctoria) since 1994 and has made the study its remarkable dyeing properties her life's work. Working with a farming cooperative who manages the crops, her company produces woad pigment, makes paints, decorative accessories, artworks and dyes clothes for the fashion industry.
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