5 day Passementerie Masterclass in London

Join me in September 2025 for the ultimate Passementerie workshop at Hand & Lock in London — five inspiring days of hands-on creativity where we’ll reimagine traditional, endangered techniques for contemporary applications. Whether you're into interiors, fashion, accessories or art, you’ll create your own beautifully crafted passementerie while learning rare & endangered craft skills.

A bright and beautiful selection of hand woven passementerie - just a snippet of the designs I bring with me to use as inspiration for our classes.

Held at Hand & Lock’s bright and comfortable workshop space in central London, you will spend 5 glorious days learning how to make your own handmade passementerie.

During the 5 days of tuition, I will lead a series of hands-on workshops covering a range of diverse and exciting hand passementerie skills and techniques including; weaving passementerie using a frame loom, cord spinning, tassel making, rosette making and covered drop making. Further techniques include: covering wooden moulds with yarn (satin shading), ruff making, collar making, joining moulds and tassel skirt making, amongst other skills. You will be working with a range of specialist passementerie materials and equipment.

Hand & Lock’s bright and comfortable School for Embroidery & Creative Arts is located in a dedicated teaching space, tucked away at the top of their embroidery atelier in central London.

An elegant handmade key tassel made from traditional passementerie techniques including ruff making, satin covering, cord spinning and skirt making. You will make a tassel just like this using colours of your choice.

During the 5-day passementerie course, you’ll create exquisite passementerie that can be used in countless ways — from adding bespoke detail to lampshades, cushions, curtains, and ottomans, to crafting luxurious embellishments for fashion, accessories, shoes, and millinery. These handcrafted elements can also stand alone as sculptural art pieces, or be transformed into one-of-a-kind jewellery. The possibilities are as imaginative as your creativity allows.

Class location: Hand & Lock, 86 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8TE.

Class dates: Monday 1st to Friday 5th September 2025.

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