Elizabeth is one of only three hand passementerie designers and makers still working in the UK. She holds an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, is a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust scholar and Heritage Crafts Endangered Crafts Fund award winner, and has published a book with Schiffer Craft. She has over 11 years of teaching experience and she teaches at the Royal School of Needlework, Hand & Lock, Central Saint Martins and Au Ver à Soie in Paris. She is known for reinventing endangered techniques into contemporary objects.

Elizabeth's studio is in Lingfield, on the Surrey, Sussex and Kent borders, so this masterclass is an opportunity to learn passementerie on her home ground. The village is under an hour by train from London and a short trip from Gatwick Airport and the M25, making it easy to reach whether you're coming from nearby or further afield.

This masterclass is ideal for textile enthusiasts, interior designers, historical craft lovers, and anyone who wants to make something special for their home. You don't need any passementerie experience, but some needlework background is recommended (embroidery, knitting, crochet or sewing), because the techniques require patience and manual dexterity.

With a maximum of 12 participants, you'll get plenty of one-to-one guidance as you learn. Choose your own colours from a beautiful, curated palette of high-quality cotton yarns. Your tassel skirt will be a soft biscuit-coloured Swedish Linen, the perfect neutral base for any colour combination you can dream up.

Techniques will be cover include:

• Ruffs: creating delicate looped textures with yarn

• Rolling wooden tassel moulds: the art of spiral cord work

• Cartisan: traditional silk wrapping techniques

• Wired skirt making: forming the tassel's skirt

• Satin wrapping: covering moulds with thread

• Cord spinning: transforming yarns into cords to use within various tassel elements

• Mini tassels: making delightful strings of mini tassels

• Colour: selecting your own colour palettes from a beautifully curated selection of yarns

All materials and specialist tools will be provided for your use during class. Please bring the following with you:

• Sharp dress-making style scissors
• Sharp embroidery style scissors
• Apron - we will be working with glue which can stain clothing
• Notebook, pen & pencil

£485.00 per person, including all materials, use of tools, homemade cakes, biscuits, tea and coffee.

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Working with colour is a key focus of this masterclass. You'll choose your own colour palette from a curated selection of beautiful, high-quality fine cotton yarns. Whether you're drawn to the rich tones of Versailles or contemporary shades to suit a modern interior, your tassel will be unique to you. If you'd like your tassel to match a particular room, you're very welcome to bring fabric swatches from home.

You'll work with traditional passementerie equipment and materials, including turned wooden moulds. All materials and tools are included in the ticket price.

Yes. The venue is fully accessible, and the teaching room is on the ground floor. We'll be working in a large, bright, comfortable room, with a separate lounge room for tea, coffee and cake. There is a free, on-site car park with a limited number of parking spaces. There is a large, paid car park a 4 minute walk away.

Tassel making is a lovely mix of patient table work and more active making. Much of the class is spent seated, working on fine detail that calls for nimble fingers and good dexterity. Cord spinning is more physical: it uses hand-held equipment and involves standing, bending and walking as the threads twist together.