SGSNY Master Class | Learn. Taste. Create.
St. George’s Society of New York, in partnership with the UK Crafts Council and Walpole, is delighted to offer our newest virtual event series to support small businesses hit particularly hard by the pandemic. SGSNY Master Classes will give you the opportunity to learn a new skill from masters of their craft, taste amazing products and create in the comfort.
Roses Are Red
Making a Contemporary Headpiece with Margaret Woodliff Wright from The Northumberland Milliner.
Learn about millinery, the fashionable art of creating hats, headpieces and their decorations—a heritage craft with roots in tradition.
Attendees of this workshop will make a special hat designed exclusively for SGSNY. This class will require a very limited amount of hand sewing but is suitable for beginners.
$100 for members
$125 for non-members
Registration includes a special kit delivered to your door that contains (almost) everything you will need on the day!
Space is strictly limited to 15 participants per workshop. Registration closes at 5:00pm EST on Monday 17th May.
Margaret Woodliff Wright | The Northumberland Milliner
From young age Margaret has been obsessed with creativity – particularly interested in fine art & textiles.
Initially training to teach Art & Design, at Durham, where she specialized in ceramics, a career in retail buying beckoned. A long fascination with texture and color ensued throughout her professional career, whilst a chance encounter with millinery thoroughly re-ignited her creative practice.
Graduating in 2013 with High Distinctions in HNC Couture Millinery from Leeds College of Art, Yorkshire, Margaret used her research of current fashion, textile design and material trends – along with historical references, art, travel and cultural experiences – as reference material for her millinery collections.
Since graduation she has been making seasonal collections, accepting commissions, and her work is represented nationally. Recycling and up cycling are constant themes. Margaret has also been involved in a number of collaborations and international millinery exhibitions including Arts Council funded inner city retail regeneration projects, as well as with the UK Crafts Council.
In parallel, she delivers millinery master classes to students interested in exploring millinery techniques or making their own headpieces. Margaret shares she is “delighted to be co-hosting a millinery master class for SGSNG, Roses are Red. Inspired by the red rose of the SGSNY illustration and the traditional English poem by Gammer Gurton ‘The Rose is red, the violet’s blue’… written in 1784, we will be using traditional techniques to create a felt rose, enhanced by a froth of ivory veiling. This can either be attached to a beret button (provided) or worn as a lapel brooch.”
Crafting Kit Includes:
Kits will be mailed to all registrants, mailing address will be collected during registration.
1 x Ivory button with hat elastic
2 x rectangles of 100% merino wool felt, 1 with bondaweb backing
1 x piece of honeycomb veiling
1 x petals layout plan
1 x petal sample
2 x small pieces of firm craft felt
1 x jewellery clip - use optional
1 x baking parchment - use with steam iron
Not included in kit, but needed for craft:
4 x empty dishes or sorting pots e.g. clean empty yogurt pots
Scissors
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
1 x old plate/mat/Teflon surface for resting the glue gun on when using.
Asst clips (10 min) e.g. pegs, mini bulldog clips, or quilting pegs
Sewing notions - quilting pins, needles and ivory/white colored thread, embroidery scissors/nail scissors
A mirror nearby
Red sharpie (fibre tip)
Steam iron and ironing board
For questions about this event, please contact our team at hello@stgeorgessociety.org