Types of Workshops
Alice facilitates a wide range of embroidery workshops for individuals, groups, parties, corporate clients and charities.
Alice offers tailor-made workshops so make sure to get in contact if you'd like a workshop with a twist bespoke
“Great way to bond with your peers! So relaxing for people who need to quiet the mind, but also for those who want to learn something new!”
- Anmol Grewal
Embroidery Workshop
Learn how to embroider into up-cycled fabrics and take home an embroidery linen napkin. Alice, will be teaching 6 functional and decorative stitches. PDF sheets of all the techniques will be provided.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Prices start from £45 per person
For group/corporate workshops please enquiry
Up-cycle, Customisation and Repair Workshop
Explore up-cycling, customisation and repair through 10 stitch techniques. Join Alice to learn how using embroidery, appliqué and darning techniques we can breathe new life into items we’d otherwise discard.
The workshop will use up-cycled fabrics and participants are invited to bring their own pieces in need of love or repair. Additionally, you will be provided a linen napkin to embroider, PDF sheets of all the techniques and equipment.
Duration: 4 hours
Prices start from £70 per person
For group/corporate workshops please enquiry
Previous Workshops
WHEN WASTE MEETS DESIGN
in partnership with ArtHouse Jersey
Alice facilitated over 10 hours in person workshops of drawing and embroidery classes with Jersey's local community. With over 30 individuals involved who contributed their motifs to the quilt, illustrating their thoughts and aspirations for the future of waste.
The finished wearable quilt is currently exhibited in 'When Waste Meets Design' exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
WASTE NOT! WORKSHOP 2022
Lux loungewear brand American Vintage hosted award winning textile artist Alice Burnhope for two workshops exploring up-cycling, customisation and repair. In partnership with American Vintage, Spitalfields and London Craft Week, Alice taught how using embroidery, appliqué and darning techniques we can breathe new life into items we’d otherwise discard.
The workshop used unwanted end of line items or participants own pieces in need of love or repair.
Within this wonderful opportunity Alice collaborated and co-created with youth groups and the public on 'What does Renewal mean to them?' and translated these visual messages through subtle embroidery to highlight the repairs and allow the participants to become the maker.
Alice conducted two interactive drawing and mark-making workshops with a diverse group of individuals and Islington’s youth group, children aged from 8 - 15 years from low income backgrounds. In both workshops, the groups participated in timed drawing activities, playing with time and the rhythm of their marks. During the workshops, they explored the concept of renewal and visually translated the ideas of nature, sustainability and the rhythm of life through marks on paper, whilst discussing questions about communities and how to prolong the lifespan of our textiles.
After the workshop, Alice selected two participants' drawings and embroidered these into the coat, identifying ‘What renewal means to them?’ Additionally, during Islington's Youth group workshop, they played with the idea of a graphic symbol of a piece of toast due to the garments being Toast items, therefore inside the lining of the coat there is an embroidery symbol of a piece of toast inspired by the children's drawings.
Toast Renewal Project raised £3,244 for Crafts Council 'Lets Craft' initiative. The total funds raised for 'Lets Craft' will help support over 11,600 children, who have been severely impacted by the pandemic, providing them art supplies and materials to enable them to be the next generation of artists, designers and makers.