Learn how to use an electric tufting gun and create your own medium-sized custom rug.

  • Learn from an experienced Locksbrook Campus textile technician.
  • Learn how to safely load and use an industry standard tufting gun.
  • Design, make and correctly finish your own medium rug to take home.

Learn how to tuft on our two-day Tuft Your Own Rug course. On day one you’ll be introduced to an electric tufting gun and watch a demonstration to teach you the art of tufting, including how to change between cut and loop. You'll then be able to start tufting your design, using 100% wool yarn and your choice of colours, with support from Zoe, our tufting technician.

On day two, you'll finish up tufting your piece and once complete, finish it to a professional standard; fixing your yarns in place, adding a backing, and shaving your piece to make it pop.

You’ll come away from the course with your very own 100x70cm rug or wall hanging, and a new skillset to show the world.

Before the course starts, you’ll need to submit your custom design to be stencilled onto your fabric.

Overview

This course will take place at Locksbrook Campus, Bath, BA1 3EL.

The next course takes place: 

  • Monday 14 July and Tuesday 15 July, 9am - 3pm

This course costs £285 per person. This includes all the materials you’ll need to create your rug such as 100% wool yarn.

All materials needed for this course will be provided. Before the course starts, you’ll need to submit your custom design to be stencilled onto your fabric. You will receive artwork guidelines to help you create your stencil.

Meet the team

Zoe Broome is a mixed media artist working across print, textiles and drawing. Graduating with a BA in Fashion from UWE in 2019, she is deeply inspired by colour, floral patterning and mark-making found in the natural world. Her work is playful and joyous, its mixed-media elements drawing on uplifting tropes of the world in bloom. She is a Technical Demonstrator in Mixed Media Textiles at BSU where she specialises in tufting, embroidery, and construction.

Terms and conditions

Read the terms and conditions for taking part in this short course.

Contact us

For more information about the course please email your enquiries to shortcourses@bathspa.ac.uk .

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