20/04/2010 by IDS
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Following the success of our adult evening classes, we have decided to run 2 day jewellery workshops for teenagers over the Summer. Each class is limited to 6 students and will be taught by ourselves (Clare and Laura). We will be offering students the chance to work with a variety of materials including metals, plastics and wood to create their own individual piece of jewellery by the end of the second day. Students are also welcome to bring in found objects they wish to incorporate into their designs.
If anyone has any further queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
Also, friends of Irish Design Shop are holding wonderful Textile workshops over the next couple of months!
Whenever I have made the trip to Lisnavagh in Carlow, the weather has been reliably awful! Having convinced my parents to accompany me on an ‘adventurous’ day trip to feature the work of Sasha Sykes, (having recently acquired my provisional license, I am not yet able for the weaving road to Lisnavagh) we set off in torrential rain to the ‘I bet it’s only savage on a sunny day’ Lisnavagh estate.
Sasha Sykes formed her company Farm21 in 2001 with an aim to design and make art, furniture and lighting from a contemporary rural standpoint. Best known for her straw-packed Plexiglas cube, which was originally created as a present for her father’s 60th birthday, the concept has since…
