Date 13-14 June 2026 (2 Days)
Price £220
Maximum number of places 8
Book Using this link or contact @alicefoxartist on Instagram for more information.
Course Details
An introduction to gathering and processing a range of plant-based fibres that grow wild, including nettle and bramble.
We will gather the relevant plants from the woods and learn the different ways to extract and process fibre that could then be used for cordage making, soft basketry and weaving.
You will produce a selection of fibre and cordage samples and learn about times to gather, process and store your wild fibres.
You will be introduced to looping and weaving techniques using your cordage. The focus of the workshop is on gathering and processing fibre and aims to open our eyes to the usable fibres that are commonly available to us.
Catering:
For all courses, a hearty, healthy lunch is provided (please let your tutor know of any dietary requirements when booking), along with tea, coffee and water. Breakfast and evening meal is self-catered, with firewood and charcoal-based cooking available.
We also provide firewood, brew-kit, washing up and cooking facilities, crockery and cutlery.
Guests should bring; barbecue food or pans for cooking on a fire for breakfast and evening meals.
Facilities:
Facilities include covered workshop spaces, an undercover outdoor cooking set-up, comfortable compost toilet, plenty of loo roll, and handwashing. A good stone track leads to the wood where there is space to park, please keep speed under 10mph.
Tutor Bio
Alice Fox is an artist based in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. The desire to work sustainably is at the heart of her practice and has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. Using her textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry, Alice makes sculptural works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.
Establishing her allotment as a source of materials for her work has provided a space where Alice can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there, planted and wild, as well as other materials found on the plot. Materials are produced, gathered and processed seasonally and by hand. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is seen as precious due its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing.
Alice’s books Natural Processes in Textile Art (2015), Wild Textiles (2022) and Wild Weave (2025) are published by Batsford.
