Fashion & Textiles
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Whether you dream of your creations gracing the catwalk or just want to make your own clothes and home furnishings, we have the right course for you.
Fashion and Design
Learn how to measure, how to cut fabric, basic sewing techniques and how to use a sewing machine. Our courses help you to improve your cutting and construction skills and get additional support with your project. Or, you may want to stretch your creative skills and learn how to draft flat patterns to your own measurements.
Textile Crafts
Find out how to decorate and embellish the surfaces of fabrics for clothes, accessories or soft furnishings and how to build layers of fabric with Appliqué techniques or use quilting processes to make gently padded shapes.
Home Styling
Discover how to make your own curtains and blinds and learn basic techniques such as pinch pleats, rouching and hand finishing. We show you how to measure your fabric, choose and sew the appropriate pinch, goblet or pencil pleat headings, and attach curtain linings and fixings.
Upholstery
Put all your upholstery skills from choosing the right materials to stitching and webbing and making ties and stuffing into practice on your own furniture in our 'Upholstery Workshop'.
For Fashion and Textiles course advice email: info.lls@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Curriculum Development Manager for Creative and Performing Arts
Jane Gittens
