Maureen's fabulous layered and zapped Tyvek sample. Denman College is a great place to teach, it is the home of the W.I. and the teaching facilities are superb as is the food and the accommodation. They offer a variety of courses throughout the year. It's always worth seeing what they have to offer. The grounds and gardens are very beautiful, at any time of the year. www.denman.org.uk  We were a select group, just five students, which meant we could cover more ground during the workshop. My Hot Textiles workshop covers most of the techniques in my book of the same name - and a few more. Tyvek really got the groups attention and they had a good time trying out all the ways to distress and texture it. Here are some of the samples -                   In the photos below you can get an idea of how light and airy the textiles studio is . .     Maureen is on the left and Jessica is on the right . . . .     . . then from the left there was F

Val's flipped and mirrored design painted in one colour. The second weekend of Experimental Textiles saw the group working in colour. The plan was to make printing blocks from foam core board and self adhesive foam using the designs created on the first weekend.  First of all we had a look at the home work - I had asked the group to take a design and flip and mirrored it to show several repeats to create even more designs. Kat's  . . Mary's  . . .   Barbara's . .     Rachel's . .   and more for Barbara . . .  . . . . and the course work/sketch books are beginning. These work books will be a wonderful resource for years to come. Once we had looked at and discussed the home work we got on with making the printing blocks. . . .       Then the group got on with the printing -  we tried out the blocks on A1 cartridge paper first to get used to how much paint to use on the block, how the repeats work