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Spectacular Showcase of Textile Innovation

Sat 15 Jun 2019

Spectacular Showcase of Textile Innovation

The Spectacular Showcase of Textile Innovation will shine a spotlight on the incredible scientific and creative innovation taking place in the textile industry today. Scientists, businesses and artists are continually ex.....Read more

Makers Market - Huddersfield

Sat 15 Jun 2019

Makers Market - Huddersfield

WOVEN Makers market will take place across two venues in Huddersfield on Saturday 15 June. Join selected makers in the beautiful settings of the Lawrence Batley Theatre Courtyard and Byram Arcade. Find out what amazin.....Read more

Wool Walk - Made in Huddersfield

Sat 15 Jun 2019

Wool Walk - Made in Huddersfield

A weird, wonderful and unbeWEAVEable scavenger hunt. Get your family or team of friends together to take on this woolly walk through Huddersfield! Pick up your trail map from the Spectacular Showcase at the University.....Read more

Ripping Yarns - Mirfield

Sat 15 Jun 2019

Ripping Yarns - Mirfield

Six short films by Alistair I MacDonald telling the stories behind some of our most innovative textile recycling businesses; turning old jeans into car interiors, creating yarn from nettles, and recycling 1000's of weddi.....Read more

How to be a Craftivist: Art of Gentle Protest by Sarah Corbett

Sat 15 Jun 2019

How to be a Craftivist: Art of Gentle Protest by Sarah Corbett

If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair then shouldn't our activism be more beautiful, kind and fair? That's what Sarah Corbett believes and will be showing how she is doing activism differently that .....Read more

Holmfirth Arts Festival Banner Parade

Sun 16 Jun 2019

Holmfirth Arts Festival Banner Parade

The Textile Banner Parade, created by Edgelands Arts with people from across the Holme Valley, and embracing the theme of Generations of Innovators, will fill the streets of Holmfirth with a riotous carnival of colour an.....Read more

Woven Into Song in Holmfirth

Sun 16 Jun 2019

Woven Into Song in Holmfirth

Woven Into Song is a performance of a new piece of music that will explore the stories of the South Asian communities who were drawn to Kirklees by the textile industry. Written by Boff Whalley, ex-Chumbawamba guitarist/.....Read more

INTERWOVEN - Gini's Dorset Button's Workshop

Sun 15 May 2022

INTERWOVEN - Gini's Dorset Button's Workshop

Learn with Gini how to make a traditional Cartwheel Dorset Button. This 400 year old craft is the original way that buttons were sustainably made by hand, with natural materials. Using local shoddy wool and recycled w.....Read more

INTERWOVEN - Embroidery for longer lasting clothes workshop

Fri 06 May 2022

INTERWOVEN - Embroidery for longer lasting clothes workshop

Explore traditional embroidery skills brought to Kirklees by people across the world, coming to work in the textile industry. Techniques will include Indian Kantha, brightly coloured Caribbean patterns, and Irish Mountme.....Read more

INTERWOVEN - Crochet with T-Shirt yarn workshop

Thu 05 May 2022

INTERWOVEN - Crochet with T-Shirt yarn workshop

Got a t-shirt that’s past its best? We all have tees with a stain that won’t come out, or too many holes from the wash. But rather than throwing them away, we’ve found a solution to reuse them instead! Thread Republic.....Read more

INTERWOVEN - Modern Day Shoddy Talk

Wed 04 May 2022

INTERWOVEN - Modern Day Shoddy Talk

John Parkinson tells the story of his family shoddy business, from the 1970s to the present day. The UK’s woollen ‘circular economy’ began circa 1813. By the time (shoddy manufacturer) Colin Parkinson Ltd opened in 19.....Read more

WOVEN Open Planning Meeting 2 July 2020

Thu 02 Jul 2020

WOVEN Open Planning Meeting 2 July 2020

Join WOVEN for the next WOVEN Open Planning Meeting. These meetings happen quarterly and are for anyone interested in planning for the WOVEN Festival 2021 (and ongoing activity). All welcome! You don’t have to have been .....Read more

WOVEN Career Programme - Teacher virtual event

Wed 09 Dec 2020

WOVEN Career Programme - Teacher virtual event

A key strand of the WOVEN 2021 Festival is the development of a careers programme for young people. We want to inspire young people about the broad range of career pathways and opportunities in textiles, including tho.....Read more

WOVEN in Practice conference

Fri 23 to Sat 24 Apr 2021 (2 days)

WOVEN in Practice conference

In June 2021, the WOVEN in Kirklees will host its second festival. The first festival took place in 2019. Initiated and funded by Kirklees Council, it was owned by everyone, from community groups, to industry, cultural o.....Read more

Growing Colour Together

Sat 26 to Sun 27 Jun 2021 (2 days)

Growing Colour Together

Growing Colour Together is a natural dyeing project that explores the techniques and processes involved in natural dyeing and how they can be applied to textile art and making. Visit Ravensknowle Park over the final w.....Read more

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