Holiday Opening Hours at the Fashion and Textile Museum

Please note the Fashion and Textile Museum will be closed for the holiday season on the 24th, 25th and 26th December 2009 and 1st January 2010.

Make sure you make the most of your holidays by visiting the Fashion and Textile Museum on the 29th, 30th and 31st December 2009 or stop by before Christmas Eve to pick up your last minute Christmas gifts from the Shop@FTM

Please note the Fashion and Textile Museum will be open again on the 2nd January 2010 with opening hours as usual.

Ceramics masterclass with Sally Tuffin

Wednesday 21st January 2010, 10am - 4pm

Sally Tuffin started using her creative skills outside the fashion arena in 1985 and has since been designing ceramics for internationally renowned Dennis Chinaworks.

This is a unique opportunity to join Sally Tuffin and her team of decorators, and under their expert guidance decorate your own spill vase, which will then get fired in the kilns at Dennis Chinaworks and the finished product sent to you within two weeks.

Gift purchases are available for workshops at FTM - why not treat a special someone?

Cost: £125 including materials exhibition to our exhibition Foale and Tuffin: Made in England

To book: Call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

Limited spaces - advance booking essential

For further info and queries, visit us on the web at www.ftmlondon.org
or email info@ftmlondon.org

Embroidery workshop with Naomi Ryder

Saturday 16th January 2010 - 11am to 4pm

Renowned textile designer and illustrator Naomi returns to the FTM to run one of her popular embroidery workshops.

Learn how to customise your clothes and bring individuality to any item through different embroidery techniques from hand stitches to some freehand machine embroidery.

Embroider logos, days of the week, insects, people, flowers; from the skills you learn you will be able to decorate and take home your own items. All welcome.

Naomi Ryder is a textile designer and illustrator whose innovative work combines drawing and embroidery. She is much in demand with fashion designers and design companies.

To book: Call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

The Fashion and Textile Museum,
83 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XF

Cost: £50 including materials and exhibition entrance.

Very Sanderson: 150 years of English decoration - New exhibition at the FTM 19th March – 13th June 2010

The Fashion and Textile Museum is pleased to announce details of its collaboration with Sanderson - one of the world’s most innovative and pioneering fabrics and furnishings companies - as it celebrates its 150^th anniversary in 2010.

The work of this most quintessentially English company will be showcased in a new exhibition which runs from 19^th March – 13^thJune 2010 and will take visitors on a tour de force of 150 years of English decoration.

When Arthur Sanderson set up his business in 1860 as an importer of French wallpapers he could scarcely have imagined that a century later it would have grown into a company with a landmark London showroom serving an international market. One hundred and fifty years since it started Sanderson is still going strong today.

However, the exhibition charts not just the Sanderson story, but the social history of a country reflected through domestic furnishings and the changing social mores of society.

For example, Sanderson was a beneficiary of the building boom in Britain in the 1880s that led to greater demand for affordable wallpaper and the company was quick to take advantage of this by expanding its range of machine-printed papers. Adapting to new trends has been a key theme throughout Sanderson’s history and is central to its longevity, as is its expansion into printed textiles and other decorative items.

During its illustrious history the company has amassed a vast collection of wallpapers and textiles representing the many changing faces and fads of interior decoration. Its archive incorporates examples by A W M Pugin, Charles Eastlake, William Morris and many other designers whose tastes influenced generations.

Sanderson itself bought, commissioned and produced products by key figures whose names read like a who’s who of the art and design world: from Christopher Dresser, the Silver Studio and C F A Voysey in the early years, to postwar artists and designers such as  Pat Albeck, Lucienne Day, Pablo Picasso and John Piper. Examples of their work will be shown as part of this new exhibition which is full of surprises, to fascinate and inform those whose tastes run from the Arts & Crafts style, jazzy Moderne, fifties' Festival designs and Pop patterns, to decidedly contemporary art and décor.

Renowned textile writer and academic Mary Schoeser, who has curated the exhibition, said ‘Even those who think they know the Sanderson story will be surprised to find just how great the company’s contribution was, not only in matters of design, but by being in the forefront of technological developments. They were even among the first, nearly a century ago, to produce booklets with colour plates illustrating their paints, papers and fabrics.’

The exhibition is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated book published by Thames & Hudson and a series of talks and events will also take place.

A New Season of Fantastic Short Courses for Fashion Designers

Kaledo Print and Kaledo Style The Kaledo Print and Kaledo Style courses introduce Lectra's specialist software for fashion or textile design, and having taken a course you will be able to book use of the software at the Museum for a very modest fee, and to use it to develop your design work without having to purchase the software yourself. This software is really fantastic - come and try it through one of our courses.

Adobe InDesign Desktop Publishing
Our new Adobe InDesign Desktop Publishing course introduces this new software and will give you the skills to create high quality flyers, brochures, stationery and other promotional material for your business.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Our courses have been developed to meet the specific needs of designers working in the fashion, textiles and jewellery sectors. Training in these Adobe applications is delivered in small groups with a focus on your particular learning requirements. Courses are available to help introduce you to these programs or to help build up your confidence and skills to a more advanced level.

All courses incorporate 15 hours tuition. Evening courses run for 6 weeks (6.30pm - 9pm). Weekend courses run for 4 weeks (10am - 2.15pm) with a 30 minute break. Intensive courses run over three consecutive days. Click on the information link next to each listing for full details.

Photoshop for Designers Date Tuesdays, 5 Jan - 9 Feb Saturdays, 6 Feb - 27 Feb Tuesdays, 23 Feb - 30 Mar Thursdays, 25 Feb - 1 Apr Saturdays, 10 Apr - 1 May Tuesdays, 20 Apr - 25 May Thursdays, 22 Apr - 27 May Saturdays, 5 Jun - 26 Jun Tuesdays, 8 Jun - 13 Jul Thursdays, 10 Jun - 15 Jul 18 - 20 Jan 25 - 27 Jan 1 - 3 Feb 8 - 10 Feb   Illustrator for Designers Date Wednesdays, 6 Jan - 10 Feb Wednesdays, 24 Feb - 31 Mar Saturdays, 6 Mar - 27 Mar Wednesdays, 21 Apr - 26 May Saturdays, 8 May - 29 May Wednesdays, 9 Jun - 14 Jul 4 - 6 Jan 11 - 13 Jan 17 - 19 Feb   Kaledo / Others Date Thursdays, 7 Jan - 11 Feb Saturdays, 9 Jan - 30 Jan Mondays, 11 Jan - 15 Feb Mondays, 22 Feb - 29 Mar Mondays, 19 Apr - 24 May Mondays, 7 Jun - 12 Jul 15 - 17 Feb

Level Intermediate Introduction Advanced Introduction Introduction Introduction Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Introduction Introduction Intermediate Introduction Intermediate     Level Intermediate Advanced Introduction Introduction Intermediate Intermediate Introduction Intermediate Introduction     Course Repeat Pattern w/ Illustrator Adobe InDesign DTP Kaledo Style (Introduction) Kaledo Style (Intermediate) Kaledo Print (Introduction) Kaledo Style (Introduction) Adobe InDesign DTP

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All courses take place at the FTM near London Bridge in our recently refurbished Learning Suite, fully equipped with PCs running the most up-to-date software. Most courses come in a choice of timings, with availability on Saturdays, weekday evenings, and newly for 2010, as 3-day mid week intensive courses - so you should be able to find a time that suits.

Priced at just £100, we believe the training offers outstanding value for money compared to similar offerings elsewhere - and those claiming JSA can take one course, or several, completely free (eligibility criteria apply - contact us to find out more).

If you have any queries, please contact Chris Hall on chris.hall@newham.ac.uk or phone CIPs on 0845 650 4244.

Tonight - Start your Christmas Shopping with a 10% Discount!

Don't miss the exclusive late night shopping event at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening. With an exciting array of young design talent, glossy books, crafts and a wide selection of 'gift-shop goodies' available with a 10% discount, this is a perfect opportunity to get stuck in to your Christmas shopping.

The Shop@FTM will be open from 6pm-9pm this evening Friday 4th December 2009 and includes a complimentary glass of wine.

Also at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening, Iain Webb, authour of 'Foale and Tuffin - The Sixties, A Decade in Fashion' will be giving a talk exploring his journey into the world of Foale and Tuffin and why the timing is so right for such a book. Webb will be signing copies of his work which is available for sale in the Shop@FTM.

'In Conversation with Iain R. Webb' is held at the Fashion and Textile Museum from 6:30pm - 8pm this evening, Friday 4th December 2009 and costs £12 (£9 Concessions) including a glass of wine.

Jacqueline Groag - panel discussion

Accompanying our display of the work of textile designer Jacqueline Groag, authors of the book Jacqueline Groag, Textile & Pattern Design: From Wiener Workstätte to American Modern will be discussing the life and work this talented and influential designer. Authors Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain and Annamarie Stapleton will discuss the historical context in which she worked and the milleu of modern design of the era.

To book call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

The Fashion and Textile Museum,
83 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XF

Cost: £10 including exhibition entrance.

Advance booking recommended

To book please call our booking line on 020 7407 8664

For further info and queries, visit us on the web at www.ftmlondon.org
or email info@ftmlondon.org