Workshops at Handmade Nottingham
Workshops at Handmade Nottingham
Get creative at Handmade Nottingham with our range of workshops.
Lee Mattocks
Leather Box Satchel
Saturday 14th June / £65pp
This leather making workshop will teach you how to make your own leather bucket bag with award winning textile artist and leather bag designer Lee Mattocks.
Colour available are burgundy, dark green, yellow, red, grey. All bags can be made with silver or brass hardware.
Karen Miele
Beginners Lino Print Workshop
Saturday 5th July 2025 / 10:30 - 13:30 / £38pp plus booking fee
Spend the morning getting inky! and learn how to design, carve and print your own designs using the lino cut technique.
In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn:
How to create a design perfect for lino print
How to transfer your drawing onto lino
How to carve a lino block, and use different techniques to create interesting patterns
How to mix inks to create your own colours
How to print your designs
How to sign and edition your prints
Suitable for beginners
Price £38 (plus booking fee) - includes tea and biscuits!
Amber Cooper-Green
Brass Flower Stem Sculpting Workshop
Saturday 19th July / 11am - 1.30pm / £80pp
Learn the art of cold carving and sculpting in wax to create your own beautifully detailed flower blooms, which will be cast into brass to become elegant ornamental flower stems.Knead, sculpt, and carve soft wax sheets to form delicate petals, leaves, and natural floral details. Use small files, carving tools, and your fingers to craft your own unique blooms, which will be professionally cast into brass.
This workshop encourages creativity and personal expression. You’ll have the freedom to sculpt any type of flower you like — from classic roses and daisies to exotic blooms of your own invention. Visual inspiration, reference materials, and live demonstrations will be provided to spark your imagination and guide you through the process.
Get Lit Books
Get Lit Book Club - The Lost Garden
Sunday 27th July / 1pm- 3pm / £12pp
This month Get Lit will be discussing Adam S Leslie's Lost in the Garden.
About the book:
'Like an old wives' tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed. Don't go to Almanby.'
Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back. Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it. And Antonia - poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather.
So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever. And as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave…
Amber Cooper-Green
Brass Pumpkin Carving Workshop
Saturday 4th October / 10.30am - 12.30pm / £60pp
Learn the art of cold carving and sculpting in wax to create your own lost wax cast miniature brass pumpkin.
Knead, sculpt and carve both soft and hard jewellers wax into the curvaceous and undulating forms of pumpkins. Use small files, carving tools and your fingers to mould and create your miniature pumpkin sculptures to be transformed into brass.
What's Included:
Expert tuition from Amber Cooper-Green
All necessary materials and tools to create at least one pumpkin sculpture.
Casting of your wax creation into brass
Sanding and polishing of your finished piece