Arts and Textiles

Current exhibition by Nikola Orpen

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:21:00 +0000

New paintings:

Pelham House Gallery

Vide-Grenier (maison) II

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Each Saturday and Sunday for four weeks

– 11.00 hrs – 19.00 hrs

We will be open again next weekend

Furntiture and ‘stuff’ sale – Leather sofas, tables, mirrors etc. (see pictures)

Starting on the 16 th and 17 th April we are having a sale of household items and furniture.
We will be open each weekend for 4 weeks until 8 th May 2011.

PICTURES AND PRICES

If you are interested please come along or phone/email for more details. In due course I will post more pictures.

Tel: 00 33 (0)9 50 62 24 95 or mobile: 00 33 (0)6 01 89 78 34

Vide Grenier [maison] furniture sale

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Vide Grenier [maison] furniture sale

THIS NOW OUGHT TO BE THE DEFINATIVE LINK TO A SPECIFIC POST ON THE NEW BLOG

texatelier blog

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:14:00 +0000

texatelier blog

New Pages on the website

Texatelier Blog | All the fun of the dye bucket

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:25:00 +0000

I'm trying an integrated approach with a new Wordpress Blog onsite and on time - let us know what you think: are we better here or there?

Texatelier Blog | All the fun of the dye bucket

Spring Workshops at Southampton Gallery - April 2011

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:02:00 +0000

Southampton City Art Gallery

6 April - 3D Feltmaking

Using methods such as coiling and stitch create objects, vessels or bags using felt, which can then be further embellished using threads beads and stitch.

7 April - Embellished Felt Jewellery.
Create felt jewellery using simple felting techniques with beads and stitch for further embellishment

Brooches, earrings, necklaces are the type of adornments you will have the opportunity to create.

8 April - Printing on Fabric
Using monoprinting, hand painting and screenprinting you will create interesting images, textures and marks on cloth using this easy and satisfying method of printing. There will be the opportunity to take inspiration from the Andy Warhol exhibition at the beginning of the day.

9 April - Silk Screen Printing on Fabric

Using the deconstucted screenprinting process with monoprinting, stencil printing, drawing and hand painting, you will create experimental and individual fabrics with procion dyes and dye thickener. There will be the opportunity to take inspiration from the Andy Warhol exhibition at the beginning of the day.

If you want to contact SCAG regarding this course or book a place - please contact them at:

art.gallery@southampton.gov.uk
00 44 (0)23 8083 3007
Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Road, Southampton, SO14 7LP

5 day bespoke course

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:43:00 +0000

I recently completed a custom tailored 'stage' with Martine, an Arts therapist, who wished to add a few new strings to her bow.
One week, one student, three disciplines - Batik, Indigo and natural dyeing - it was intense and very satisfying for us both!

Re-organised site for our Gite

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:34:00 +0000

New revamped site Aquitaine gite, vallée du lot - holiday rental

Happy New year 2011

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Hello to all of you and Happy New year.

We have lots of new courses on the horizon, including deconstructed printmaking and Eco-dyeing.

Hopefully the woad I sewed in November will be ready for the Spring. I am currently researching and experimenting with new eco colours for the 2011 courses.

Our marche Noel Maison went well, with over 40 people coming to see what we are up to........ and enoying a glass of vin chaud (mulled wine) and traditional Yorkshire Parkin, it was great to see new faces and of course familiar ones too, thanks to all who came and supported us. We hope to offer more events like this in the future and not just at Christmas!

And with the holidays out of the way it was straight into Indigo dyeing with Shibori on 5^th January. Some exquisite results achieved by 3 very determined students, including the first that I have seen of almost photographic style resist printing on silk, well done Judy! And the Gods smiled on us and gave us a bit of sunshine for the oxidation process.

Aquitaine Gite 2011 prices

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:41:00 +0000

All New Details on our gite

Mid and High Season prices 2011 just posted + New 10 Day rental option to make cheaper mid-week cross-channel travel an option

Marché de Noel

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:06:00 +0000

We had a very successful day last Sunday,
However some did not find the date good
and asked for this coming weekend instead.
So we are doing an event - Gifts and Foods -
on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons
from 2pm 'til 6 pm..
If you would like to come we'ed love to see
you, all the details are on Fb Event - there
will be discounts and 'dégustation' - tasting -
of Bio juice and other artisinal food stuffs,
All Welcome - No Obligation.

TEXATELIER Marché de Noëll II

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:54:00 +0000

We are up and running again this weekend

TEXATELIER Marché de Noëll II

Marché de Noël Maison

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:42:00 +0000

Instead of freezing on a street corner in one of our local towns for a Marché de Noel we are offering our Jewellery, Hand produced fabric Items & accessories - eg; Bags and cushion covers at a 'chez-nous' Christmas sale, with some discounted prices.

There are also some small and affordable original paintings, prints and cards by Artist Nikola Orpen and some of Cassette's famous Bougeois - (Candelabres).

Joining us will be Sarah Baghadoust (and hopefully others).

We will all be selling some home produced festive food stuffs including Bio Apple juice and Prunes as well as Jams, marmalades and cakes.

We also roll out a new line in hand-produced soaps.

Nous vous convie à une après-midi marché de Noël à domicile, chez mes amis Shaun et Nikkie, qui ont choisi d'organiser cet évènement plutôt que se transformer cette année encore en glaçons en tenant un stand dans l'un de nos petits villages...

De nombreux articles faits mains à offrir vous seront proposés (bijoux, accessoires, sacs, coussins), ainsi que de petits tableaux réalisé par l'artiste Nikola Orpen à des prix tout à fait abordables, ainsi que d'autres de ses créations (cartes de voeux, impressions...)

Vous aurez aussi la possibilité de repartir avec un des célèbres bougeoirs Cassette !!

Vous bénéficierez de prix réduits pour cette occasion et pour avoir une idée des chefs d'oeuvre proposés je vous convie à aller faire un tour sur http://www.bijouterie.ateliersudouest.com/

Sarah Baghadoust participerai également à la vente en proposant des confitures et petits cadeaux maisons, et nous espérons que d'autres se joindront à nous !

Vous trouverez également des préparations culinaires pour les fêtes à emporter, confitures, marmelades et gâteaux, ainsi que du jus de pommes et des pruneaux bios.

Some items are also available at our Web-Shop

Felt Making Course Details

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:18:00 +0000

Click here to view Outline for the Day

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:10:00 +0000

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

One day workshop - come and make some gifts fror friends and relatives.

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:00 +0000

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

Make your own Christmas present jewelry in this workshop

Das Affel Weekend

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:20:00 +0000

We at Texatelier are made of stern stuff - it ain't just embroidery round here.
The studio is surrounded by our beautiful organic orchard of some sixty trees.
We invited friends last weekend to help with the harvest - some said they'd rather stay home and sew, some came, got cold, climbed trees, pressed jus, and got a good feed into the bargain. It was fun and thanks to everybody who helped.

Indigo, Silk-Screen, Bags, Sarves .....

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:30:00 +0000

I have had a very busy time recently, so not had a great deal of time to write anything. I was over in the Uk in October at the Quay Arts Centre on the Isle of Wight working in their fabulously well equipped teaching space overlooking the river, 2 days of fun feltmaking with a group of about 10 people each day.

Day 1 was making nuno felt and embellished felted jewellery, and day 2, 3D feltmaking, where students made either a bag or a pot, using 2 different felting techniques. The photos speak for themselves.

Later that week at the City Art Gallery in Southampton, I gave a day class in screenprinting using hand cut stencils, this was a great success and all went home with fabric prints a plenty. And with much hard work, Prema even created some fabulous T shirts with a very simple but effective design. Well done her.

I was also able to cram in a day in London and went to Origin at Spittalfields to see lots of lovely handcrafted things for inspiration.

Then back here in France we were able to put on a day of Indigo dyeing with shibori. Deborah brought some of her homespun alpaca wool to experiment with ;

and Melanie went home with a beautiful upcycled indigo/shibori dyed shirt. 5 of us had a great day, wish it had been sunnier though, but lots of good company made up for the lack of sun.

I've now had to move the studio indoors as it's too cold to work in the Tex'Atelier barn, but next April we will open it up again for some new and exciting classes. Watch this space

I'm sowing some woad this week for next years classes so come the Spring we can be working with the traditonal dye material from this corner of S.W France.

I've recently been concentrating on creating some wax resist and indigo dyed pashmina type scarves, either in wool or viscose for, super colour, machine washable and lovely and warm too, perfect pressies.

I have also created some small lined vintage linen bags/purses with a long strap. An ideal gift for the busy woman who travels, as they are perfect for flying, enough space for your essentials such as lipstick, glasses, money and documents

(I recently made one for myself and found it really useful at security as you don't have to cram it into your handluggage, just treat it as another item of clothing that goes through the xray, and it has a hidden pocket for those all important documents and passport. Oh and it also looks good too!)

I'm now making some lovely soft upcycled blanket cushions embellished with vintage linen.. I found a beautiful old witney blanket that needed some TLC - Pictures coming soon .............

Felted Jewellery

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:16:00 +0000

A one day workshop making embellished felted jewellery at Tex'Atelier.

Create some highly personalised christmas presents for family and friends.
Learn how to make your own felted beads to turn into a necklace, bracelet, earings, and brooches, incorporating threads and yarns and beads and buttons you will be certain to go home with some lovely handcrafted gifts.

35€ per person. All materials provided

Please bring something to share for a communal lunch.

Call Nikkie at Tex' Atelier
06 01 89 78 34 or 09 50 62 24 95
to reserve your place.
events at Texatelier: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Shibori & Indigo Day

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:25:00 +0000

New PDF format workshop details -

View & Download

New website pages

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:41:00 +0000

The web site is being rebuilt with new pages, new departments, new products and new options.
There are items from necklaces to cushion covers to bags .. all safely purchaseable using PayPal
and at great direct sale rates.
boutique Texatelier

Summer days, gone too soon ….

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:20:00 +0000

^{The workshops at Southampton City Art Gallery in July went really well with students making some interesting experimental painterly prints on paper, using collographs monoprints and stencils printing techniques (with the wonderful etchting press they have there) There will be a lead on from this course on October 5th, where Nikkie will be holding a class in basic ways to create simple designs on fabric and paper using handcut stencils for screen printing.}

^{Nikkie also held a couple of Indigo and shibori dyeing days, which lead to her new line in individually crafted indigo scarves, on sale soon.}

^{Sean lead a workshop in building a clay oven in deptartment 46, it has to dry out before any bread or delicious pizzas will be baked in it, but what an achievement to have your own handbuilt clay oven in your back yard in which to bake super-good-for-you bread and if the urge takes you to use it additionally as a kiln for Raku or even for forging metal. (Watch this space for workshops!)}

^{Then there was Beauville .. Sean did four weeks of Arts Plastique workshops with about 200 International students, He designed and built all the sets, with the 'kids' - aged 8yrs to 18yrs. Shows this summer: Oliver, Annie, Moulin Rouge and Mamma-Mia!}

Texatelier by Texatelier on Etsy

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:57:00 +0000

Beautiful and hand-made cushions by Texatelier

Texatelier by Texatelier on Etsy

Autumn Agenda

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:56:00 +0000

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EVENTS PAGE

New Stuff at TEXATELIER for Autumn 2010

Recent Workshops Summer 2010

noreply@blogger.com (sean cassette) — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:22:00 +0000

It's been a busy couple of months with workshops here in France at Texatelier and in England also.
Not too many words necessary just a few pictures.