This is a detail of the larger piece by Morag which is featured further down this post. A New Starting Point is one of my favourite workshops. It is newspaper based and can be taught over 2 - 5 days. This summer school at Inkberrow Design Centre was the 5 day version which means we could add print and stitching onto water soluble fabric. I love teaching at the IDC studios, there is plenty of room and the atmosphere is fabulous, slightly bonkers - just brilliant . There is room for the students to work comfortably.   Starting to paint up the newspaper and Bon daweb. The first thing we got on with was the 'prett y and background' technique featured in my book Reclaimed Textiles . B asically tearing, layering and then tearing again . . . working with both painted and unpainted B ondaweb. The group were working with all types of paper, old books, magazine pages, music . . .  We also included mica flakes and gilding flake - of course we did. 

 Taking a section of the Journey with 'L' shapes.  I love teaching my course Experimental Textiles. But you can love something tooooo much. All the time I am teaching it, I am thinking about my students, and not me and my own work. So this is the last time I will be teaching it in this form. I hope to be able to sort out how to teach some of it online next year.      The calm before the storm. 30 minutes before the new students arrived, exciting.  The new group is great fun, some strong personalities and one or two who are rather backwards in coming forward - but everyone will settle down and work well together. They got off to a flying start, I am very excited about what they may be capable of . .  watch this space. So - the Journey. This is the exercise I am flown all over the place to teach. It is something I came up with 17 or so years ago to help students create original designs. It is covered in my book Experimental Textiles which is the book of the cour