Textile Art Workshops to Inspire
Workshops are central to Stitching and Beyond’s creative programme, giving textile artists and makers the chance to explore new techniques and ideas.
This latest calendar of workshops highlights the richness of textile arts, with hands-on sessions led by accomplished artists.
Whether you are drawn to interpreting landscapes through stitch or experimenting with paper and fibre, each workshop invites you to expand your practice in supportive company.

Rooted in connection and discovery, these workshops encourage you to respond to place, material and imagination while sharing the joy of making with others.

Calendar of Workshops:
A Sense of Place
In our minds we all carry images of memorable landscapes that warm our hearts when we recall and share them.
This workshop aims to show you how to interpret those landscape images to evoke a sense of connection to share with others.
You will use photographs of a place special to you as the basis of your design to create a wall piece.
Judith will highlight some of her techniques that will help you communicate the meaning of your chosen special place, one dear to your heart.
The piece develops over the three days, via guided exercises, colour exploration, maybe dyeing organza to achieve your own colours, and your process will be guided by mark making in your sketchbook.
Mark making leads to stitch sampling by hand or machine to explore and represent surface textures at different scales, and then to working into the background with stitch to interpret the marks.


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A Welcoming Workshop
This workshop is for people of all levels of experience who wish to explore how they can express what draws them to connect with places that are special to them.
Judith’s textile experience that overlays her knowledge and appreciation of landscape will show you how to interpret your special landscape in such a way that others viewing your art in the future can see that connection.
Workshop Leader
Judith Burns is a City and Guilds-trained textile designer and embroiderer, who makes textile art on Anaiwan and Gumbaynggir country in northern NSW.
Her recent work focuses on ways to interpret and communicate geographical ideas through stitched textiles.
She interprets place through dyeing, printing, layering and stitching translucent fabrics.
Judith uses free motion machine embroidery to re-create landscapes, finding it liberating to use her machine “like a pencil or a paintbrush”, freely interpreting large scale features and surface textures.

Workshops Details
Dates: 9th to 11th October 2025
Time: 10 am to 4.30 pm
Workshop Price: $390
Workshop Cut off time:
We accept enrolments up until a few days before the workshop if there are places still available. If the workshop says it has sold out, please add your name to the wait list as in our experience, waitlisted people do often get lucky.
Workshops Supplies:
Attendees will be sent a requirements list once the workshop has sufficient numbers to ensure it will go ahead.
If you wish to work on machine, you will need to bring one, although sometimes for interstate people we can organise a loan. There will be a materials fee of $27 to be paid directly to Judith.
Workshop location:
The Colour Circle
555 Nelson Road
Mount Nelson, Tasmania 7007
Workshop organisers: Chris Hussey and Roz Wren
Workshops Bookings:
Workshops tickets are online for A Sense of Place with Judith Burns.
Manual booking process:
Participants do need to be financial members of Stitching and Beyond for insurance purposes – $40 – join via our web page https://www.
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Calendar of Workshops: Fusion – Combining Paper & Fiber with Eszter Bornemisza
Do you enjoy paper and textiles, especially paper and textiles with a history?
And do you enjoy machine stitching with elements of printing, dyeing and painting? Quite possibly this workshop, bringing all those elements together, is for you.
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This workshop explores a wide range of techniques for fusing paper with textiles. Participants will experiment with various types of paper—including tissue paper, mulberry paper, newsprint, computer prints and paper pulp—and apply them to fabrics with different textures.
Through cutting, tearing and stitching into grids, students will begin to develop their own visual language.
The focus will be on creating open, translucent samples by manipulating meshes and using everyday, off-the-shelf materials, allowing students to repurpose and revitalise old or discarded artworks.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own prints and sketches to create sample pieces. These fragments will be layered and assembled into expressive collages that reflect personal associations and feelings about the living environment.
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This is for people who enjoy exploring textiles and paper, learning new skills and putting together materials that enhance and reflect off each other to express your ideas.
It may just be the beginning to many completed art pieces.
This is far from your formulaic workshop where you all emerge with variations on a theme.
Workshops Leader
We are delighted to welcome Eszter back to Hobart. We all had a wonderfully inspiring time on her first visit, pre COVID.
So here is your opportunity to share three exciting and stimulating days with a world class tutor who is at once warm, supportive and challenging!
Eszter writes ” I am a fibre artist living in Budapest, Hungary, working with recycled paper, textiles and other found soft materials.
“The basic process of creation is machine stitching, with additional elements of printing dyeing and painting.
“After having made art quilts for more than ten years, my interest has turned to creating transparent wall-hangings, objects and installations using ripped, overprinted newspaper.
“As an urban citizen the theme of my work is revolving around ideas that reflect our relations to urban life.
With the multi-layered surfaces of real and imaginary maps I’m striving to grasp moments of finding our place both physically and mentally.
“As experimentation and research has been primary tools for developing ideas, labyrinth like maps with many dead-end streets has been a visual metaphor of my journey to find my own identity.”

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Workshops Details
Dates: 28th to 30th January 2026
Time: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Workshop Price: $450
Workshop Cut off time:
We accept enrolments up until a few days before the workshop if there are places still available. If the workshop says it has sold out, please add your name to the wait list as in our experience, waitlisted people do often get lucky.
Workshops Supplies:
A requirements list is mailed to participants once the workshop is confirmed to be going ahead.
You will need to gather a lot of recycled paper, textiles and other found soft materials, together with a sewing machine and all the other usual paraphernalia you use in creating textile based art.
Workshop location:
Moonah Arts Centre Makers Workshop
23 -27 Albert Road
Moonah, Tasmania 70079
Workshop organisers: Chris Hussey and Roz Wren
Workshops Bookings:
Workshops tickets are online for Fusion – Combining Paper & Fiber with Eszter Bornemisza.
Manual booking process:
Participants do need to be financial members of Stitching and Beyond for insurance purposes – $40 – join via our web page https://www.


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