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TRADITIONAL CRAFT WORKSHOPS OVERVIEW 02 THE PROGRAM GUILDHOUSE PROFILE This program provides opportunities for Guildhouse is the leading South ... a beautiful, South Australian artists and members Australian organisation supporting of the public to learn traditional craft and creating connections for South productive, happy skills from a range of cultures. Taught Australian creative practitioners for 50 atmosphere was by culturally and linguistically diverse years. faciliated by Millie, craft practitioners, in particular refugees, Our vision is for creative professionals participants have the opportunity to she is a great learn craft skills that are not normally to have sustainable careers and for teacher. There is available to them, as well as learning the contribution they make to our rich nothing I didn’t about cultural traditions and heritage. cultural environment to be recognised and valued by our community. like... Each course offers participants an opportunity to learn new skills and Our purpose is to engage with and to develop an understanding and support visual artists, craftspeople appreciation of unique cultural practice. and designers with services that are affordable and relevant. We also The program addresses a need to both develop and promote opportunities highlight and preserve the traditional that take them out of their traditional craft skills of culturally and linguistically studio practice and place them in diverse practitioners. The ‘slow methods’ environments to enrich their practice characteristic of many traditional craft through collaboration, research and techniques allow for an exchange of experimentation and develop new work stories and ideas between teachers and that is presented to new and diverse participants that has aided settlement audiences. and cross-cultural understanding. This program provides access to BOOKINGS AND QUERIES materials, tools and tuition within specific cultural groups as a way of If you are interested in delivering a ensuring that these traditional skills are Tradiitonal Craft Workshop in your not lost in the process of settling in a community please contact Megan Rainey. new country. 08 8410 1822 Since its inception in 2010 the workshop [email protected] program has proved extremely successful, with artists and members of the wider community clamoring for places in often booked-out workshops.. The cost of the workshops covers Guildhouse’s coordination of delivering the workshop, the workshop leader, facilitators and materials. 03 BANGLADESHI QUILT EMBROIDERY ERITREAN BASKETRY AFGHAN EMBROIDERY WITH MASUMA AKTHER WITH MILETE-TSEGA OGBALIDET WITH HORYA YOSUFI Masuma Akther teaches Bangladesh’s Learn the art of weaving the graphic, This fine, ordered embroidery technique ‘Nakshi Kantha’, a delicate embroidery colourful designs of Eritrean baskets used to decorate clothing, bedding and using motifs based on wedding traditions, with Milete-Tsega Ogbalidet. Collectively household furnishings, is characterised sacred symbols and the everyday stories called Meblee Kursi, the baskets are by geometric patterning. Participants of village life in Bangladesh. Masuma woven out of brightly coloured wool will construct an embroidery sampler teaches a series of traditional stitches around plant fibre. In this workshop using the many motifs used in traditional whilst discussing the cultural heritage of participants will learn how to make a flat Afghan embroidery. the technique. In the five week workshop plate normally used for the storage and Venue Requirements participants will aim to produce an serving of food, and as decorative objects. Tables and chairs A5-A4 sized embroidery using traditional Milete, who is from Central Eritrea, learnt Good lighting imagery. to weave in this style from her mother Water, tea & coffee facilities and family when she was a child and has Venue Requirements been weaving most of her life. Maximum participants Tables and chairs 10 Good lighting Venue Requirements Water, tea & coffee facilities Tables and chairs 5 week workshop Good lighting First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week Maximum participants Water, tea & coffee facilities 12 Maximum participants Day-long workshop 12 Five hours 5 week workshop 5 week workshop First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week 04 BOSNIAN SOCK KNITTING BOSNIAN RUG WEAVING FIQUE CROCHET Bags OF Colombia WITH RAZIJA BEGANOVIC WITH RAZIJA BEGANOVIC WITH Lady Narvaez PEÑaloza Razija Beganovic is from the Srebrenica Learn the graphic, intricate art of Bosnian Learn how to create the these vibrant region of Bosnia and migrated to carpet weaving with Razija Beganovic. coloured string bags with Lady Narvaez Australia after the Bosnian War. The traditional patterns taught in this Peñaloza, who is from Colombia and Razija has been knitting, weaving workshop are specific to the region of was taught to make this type of bag and embroidering since she was a Srebrenica. by indigenous women of the mountain young girl, taught by her mother and regions of Colombia, South America. The Venue Requirements female relatives. Bosnian sock knitting bags are made of Fique string from the Tables and chairs is characterized by bold geometric inner fibres of the agave plant and used Good lighting patterning in traditional colours of red, by villagers for carrying food and other Water, tea & coffee facilities blue, black and white. goods. Maximum participants Needs to be booked six weeks in advance. Venue Requirements 10 Participants will need to have some Tables and chairs competence in knitting to undertake this 5 week workshop Good lighting workshop. First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week Water, tea & coffee facilities Venue Requirements Maximum participants Tables and chairs 12 Good lighting Day-Long workshop Water, tea & coffee facilities Six hours Maximum participants 10 One-day workshop Five hours Two-day workshop Ten hours 5 week workshop First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week 05 SUDANESE BEADING IRANIAN EMBROIDERY MIDDLE EASTERN KNOTTED RUG WITH REBECCA TUT WITH AKHTAR ESMAILZADEH WEAVING WITH AHMAD JAVID RASHIDI Taught by Rebecca Tut, participants in Akhtar Esmailzadeh is from Kerman Ahmad Javid Rashidi learned knotted rug this workshop will produce the colourful Province in Southern Iran and has been weaving in Afghanistan as a child and and intricate beading traditional to living in Australia for 14 years. Akhtar was after moving to Iran wove carpets for over Sudanese villages. Rebecca learnt taught traditional Persian embroidery by 18 years. Using specialized tools brought beading as a young woman in southern family members as a child, and has been in specifically for this in-depth workshop, Sudan joining a long line of craftswomen. embroidering for over 45 years. Akhtar participants will learn to make intricate Using patterns unique to her village, she is an expert in ‘pateh’, or paisley design, Turkish-knotted rugs in the Afghan/ beads onto bowls and balls. which originated in Iran and has since Iranian style. spread in textile design throughout the Participants must have good eyesight as Needs to be booked six weeks in advance. world. The pateh motif, also called ‘bota’ the process is very fiddly. Best if participants have some experience or cedar tree motif, symbolises life in with textiles. Venue Requirements Persian culture. Akhtar holds a wealth of Tables and chairs knowledge about the history and cultural Venue Requirements Good lighting significance of her craft. Tables and chairs Water, tea & coffee facilities Good lighting Needs to be booked six weeks in advance. Water, tea & coffee facilities Maximum participants Venue Requirements 12 Maximum participants Tables and chairs 10 Two-day workshop Good lighting Ten hours Water, tea & coffee facilities 10 week workshop 4 hours per week Maximum participants 5 week workshop 12 First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week 6 week workshop First week 3 hours, then 2 hours per week THE WORKSHOPS 06 ... I learnt about a culture that I knew nothing about previously... IRANIAN WOODEN INLAY IRANIAN ILLUMINATION WITH SHIMA GHOLAMI WITH SHIMA GHOLAMI This intensive workshop explores the Iranian Illumination is the art of delicate inlay technique used in furniture decorating scientific, religious, cultural and ornamental construction in Iran. and historical books with gold borders Shima Gholami was taught the craft of and illustrations. Shima Gholami learnt Iranian wooden inlay by respected master this fine art in her youth and practiced craftsperson Soleiman Saeidabadi. She the craft on a professional level in her practiced her craft on a professional home country of Iran. This intensive level in her home country. This weekend one-day workshop will provide an workshop will provide an introduction to introduction to the numerous processes wooden inlay techniques. of illumination through the creation of a small design. Venue Requirements Good ventilation - extraction fans Venue Requirements Wood workshop Tables and chairs Work benches Good lighting Tables and chairs Water, tea & coffee facilities Water tea & coffee facilities Maximum participants Maximum participants 12 8 One-day workshop Two-day workshop 6 hours Seven hours each day Guildhouse is supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts SA, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Guildhouse: Level 1, 38 Hindley Street, Adelaide PO BOX 8067 Station Arcade South Australia 5000 Telephone: (08) 8410 1822 www.guildhouse.org.au.

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