Start Date: Friday 10/10/2025
Time: 11:00am
Duration: 3 hrs
Price: £140.00
Ability: All Welcome
Tutor: Liz Zass
Tickets Available: 6
Duration: This course consists of three 2-hour classes
You can join either for these 3 consecutive sessions 10th,11th,12th October
or 3 consecutive weekly sessions starting Sunday 26th October
We are very excited to offer this series of short workshops with artist and weaver Liz Zass, to learn random weave basketry and create a unique sculptural, contemporary piece.
All welcome, no previous basketry experience needed.
Random weave is an easily learned technique which can result in elegant, airy shapes or mysterious, densely woven, abstract pieces. It is rooted in the Japanese Ikebana basket tradition. Liz will guide you step by step through creating a simple former or mould for your work, starting the weave, building up structure, and removing the former when your piece is complete.
You’ll make your first piece in paper yarn – clean and easy to use. We’ll discuss options for adding surface embellishment, making larger or more miniature pieces, experimenting with other weaving materials and ways to think about design for further projects. By the final workshop you will be ready to start a second piece.
Beginning in 2017, Liz studied basketry at City Lit college in Central London. She compleated a range of short courses and workshops, followed by their unique 2 year in-depth basketry course, and a further year of advanced study.
She likes to work with recycled and recyclable materials wherever possible.
Materials: please bring a notebook, something to write with and ….. 500g of rice!
Rice is used as the basis for your form/mould. Any kind of rice is fine, cheapest is best as you will be poking tools into it and wont then want to eat it. Hopefully you will want to take it home (bring a big jar) to make more pieces.
All other materials are provided.
“Taking the time to learn in the inspiring environment of Colne Road Studios was such a treat! The group was welcoming and supportive and Rachel is an extremely talented and generous teacher, sharing her skills and knowledge to give us fresh perspectives and a wealth of useful advice and feedback. I felt my ability and interest in drawing had been revived after many years dormant, learning how to observe as well as how to draw. I would encourage anyone willing to pick up a pencil to have a go, and have already signed up to Rachel’s next course! “CB March 2025
A CPZ is in force from Mon to Sat 8.30 – 6.30pm
Limited paid spaces available in surrounding roads with Ring Go cashless Parking
Max stay 4 hours during operational hours
Mon to Sat – 8am to 6.30pm.
This car park is accessible and free to park in outside of these hours. Max stay 4 hours during operational hours – walking to the Studio approx 9mins
At the moment the courses at Colne Road Studios are designed for adults over the age of 18 . The aim is to create a relaxed environment, provide a bit of an escape and switch off from every day responsibilites. We are not able to accommodate children in our classes, nor do we provide children’s classes at this time.
To secure a course, please book at least 8 days before the listed course start date.
Any course with no bookings 8 days prior to it’s start date will then be removed from the website .
Courses with fewer than 3 participants may be cancelled, with 5 days’ notice given to those who had enrolled.
You will be notified by email if this happens, unless you would like us to text you instead, but please let us know.
A refund for the full course value will then be made.
Please bare with us . This might take 5-10 days to come through.
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All of our longer courses are exchangeable up until 28 days prior to the start of the course. After this, you are able to change your booking to a different course for a £20 admin fee. Please note that from 14 days prior to the start of the course, your booking is non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
Our refund policy is strict because it enables us to pay ourselves and our tutors a fair wage, and remain accessible as a studio.
Every time we are asked to to accommodate a refund request, we would be forced to lower our staff wages or increase our prices – both of which we really want to avoid. We hope you understand that this is why there are no exemptions to our refund policies.
What if the course is cancelled by Colne Road Studios ?
Courses with fewer than 3 participants may be cancelled, with 5 days’ notice given to those who had enrolled.
You will be notified by email if this happens, unless you would like us to text you instead, but please let us know.
A refund for the full course value will then be made.
Please bare with us . This might take 5-10 days to come through.