Passementerie masterclass with Elizabeth Ashdown
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£250.00
Join one of the UK’s last remaining passementerie makers, Elizabeth Ashdown, in this hands-on two-day workshop. Working with traditional hand-making techniques and a range of high quality passementerie materials and equipment, you will learn all the techniques needed in order to create your own passementerie rosette designs.
You will create exquisite passementerie rosettes that can be used in countless ways - from adding bespoke details to lampshades, cushions, and curtains, to crafting luxurious embellishments for fashion, accessories, shoes, and millinery. These handcrafted elements can also stand alone as sculptural art pieces, or be transformed into one-of-a-kind jewellery. The possibilities are as imaginative as your creativity allows.
Using traditional handmade materials including gimp cord and wooden moulds, you will choose your own colour combinations from a wide selection of high-quality yarns and threads. During the class you will make two complete rosette designs in your chosen colours, and begin a third to finish at home.
Guest Tutor – Elizabeth Ashdown
Elizabeth is one of only a few practising hand passementerie artists in the UK. She combines traditional craft with contemporary design to create innovative trims, tassels, and fringes. Her award-winning work has won Best Decorative Touch at the Living Etc Style Awards 2025 and Trim of the Year at the 2025 Homes & Gardens Design Awards. She designed the multiple award-winning Kaleidoscope collection for Samuel & Sons.
Based in London, Elizabeth creates bespoke passementerie for interior designers, fashion designers, and milliners, and develops wall-based artworks using her signature techniques. She's the author of Passementerie: Handcrafting Contemporary Trimmings, Tassels, Fringes and More and holds an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art.
A passionate educator, Elizabeth teaches Passementerie Masterclasses online and in person, and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust ADAM Architecture Scholarship in 2023.
Please note this is an in-person class at Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU.
Please view important joining information about Hampton Court courses.
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Join one of the UK’s last remaining passementerie makers, Elizabeth Ashdown, in this hands-on two-day workshop. Working with traditional hand-making techniques and a range of high quality passementerie materials and equipment, you will learn all the techniques needed in order to create your own passementerie rosette designs.
You will create exquisite passementerie rosettes that can be used in countless ways – from adding bespoke details to lampshades, cushions, and curtains, to crafting luxurious embellishments for fashion, accessories, shoes, and millinery. These handcrafted elements can also stand alone as sculptural art pieces, or be transformed into one-of-a-kind jewellery. The possibilities are as imaginative as your creativity allows.
Using traditional handmade materials including gimp cord and wooden moulds, you will choose your own colour combinations from a wide selection of high-quality yarns and threads. During the class you will make two complete rosette designs in your chosen colours, and begin a third to finish at home.
Guest Tutor – Elizabeth Ashdown
Elizabeth is one of only a few practising hand passementerie artists in the UK. She combines traditional craft with contemporary design to create innovative trims, tassels, and fringes. Her award-winning work has won Best Decorative Touch at the Living Etc Style Awards 2025 and Trim of the Year at the 2025 Homes & Gardens Design Awards. She designed the multiple award-winning Kaleidoscope collection for Samuel & Sons.
Based in London, Elizabeth creates bespoke passementerie for interior designers, fashion designers, and milliners, and develops wall-based artworks using her signature techniques. She’s the author of Passementerie: Handcrafting Contemporary Trimmings, Tassels, Fringes and More and holds an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art.
A passionate educator, Elizabeth teaches Passementerie Masterclasses online and in person, and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust ADAM Architecture Scholarship in 2023.
Please note this is an in-person class at Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU.
Please view important joining information about Hampton Court courses.
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RSN Stitch Bank
You can explore many more stitches in the RSN Stitch Bank.
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