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.

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of Art, Yorkshire, Margaret used her research of current fashion, textile design and material trends – along with historical references, art, travel and cultural experiences – as reference material for her millinery collections.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

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 of your own home.

Lorna Gray | Crumps Barn Studio

Lorna Gray will be leading this special master class for St. George’s Society of New York.

Lorna runs a small book publishing company called Crumps Barn Studio based in the Cotswolds, UK. Her specialism is memoir and poetry, and unusually, some of their titles are produced in rare and collectable hand bound hardback. 

Lorna will be teaching attendees the same technique they use when binding their print volumes by hand. Lorna shared that “I’ve found that my relationship with the printed word has changed very subtly thanks to the hours that go into binding each volume – when you join me to make your own hand bound notebook, you’ll share this experience.”

Crafting Kit Includes:

Kits will be mailed to all registrants, mailing address will be collected during registration.

2 x greyboard cover
1 x greyboard spine
2 x end papers
4 x signatures of artist’s
quality cartridge paper
1 x linen mull
needle and linen thread
2 x headbands
1 x ribbon
Fabric cover
Glue brush
Greyboard measuring strip
Pot of premixed glue

Not included in kit, but needed for craft:

Scissors

For questions about this event, please contact our team at hello@stgeorgessociety.org