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  Mosaics for beginners and improvers (SWE32935)

  24 to 26 Jan 2025. Develop your creativity using different ceramic and glass tiles. You will learn techniques for laying, grouting and cutting tiles into tesserae. Tutors: Martin Cheek

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  Stained Glass for beginners and improvers (S4D32930)

  9 to 13 Feb 2025. Immerse yourself in stai n ed glass as you learn or develop your skills and creativity. A s well as learning all the techniqu e s needed to make a stained-glass panel or window, you will be able to explore the use of decorative sa...

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  Drawing – how to grow ideas (D1D34056)

  15 Feb 2025. Learn and use processes to develop initial ideas to their fullest potential whether your practice is in ceramics, glass, jewellery, sculpture, painting, textiles, fibre art, etc, two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Tutors: Anna Marlen-...

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  Making glass beads – an introduction (S2D33661)

  17 to 19 Feb 2025. Use a torch flame to create coloured beads and learn how to apply decorative effects such as frits, canes, stringers, dots and metal leaf. Tutors: Sarah Downton

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  Botanical French beading – a daffodil stem (S1D33446)

  28 Feb 2025. Learn how to create a beautiful daffodil using the traditional and adaptable craft of French beading. This19th-century art form combines stringing glass seed beads; wire wrapping and twisting; and sculpting to create exquisite forever fl...

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  Traditional gilding techniques (S4D32989)

  3 to 7 Mar 2025. This is an introduction to water gilding, oil gilding and glass gilding. This course includes ageing, distressing and toning, using traditional techniques. Water-gild a small frame with a gilded silver mirror. Develop oil gilding tec...

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  Glass engraving (SSW33512)

  15 to 16 Mar 2025. This course is a short weekend with a timetable variation: 10am-5pm on Saturday and 9am-4pm on Sunday. Experiment with drawing or lettering on glass as you are introduced to the tec h niques of drill and hand engraving. Improvers...

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  Glass fusing and slumping (SLW32933)

  21 to 24 Mar 2025. Using beautiful Bullseye glass you will learn how to cut and assemble glass to form a glass bowl and a panel plus tiles or coasters. Explore how to decorate glass with an array of fusing techniques. Tutors: Katrina Beattie