By By Lancaster Royal Grammar School Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about… Read More »The Lancaster Gregsons and the Brockbanks: Links to Empire and Transatlantic Slavery
Come and join us for a mending session at the Cornerstone in Sulyard St, Lancaster LA1 1PX
What’s on offer? This year’s Crafternoon will focus on fashion and its implications for social and environmental justice. Bring your mending and join us to explore the fate of secondhand… Read More »Clothes Swap, Mend along and Talk
Our Natural Dyes exhibition at the Midwinter market! On the 17th December from 10:00-17:00 Lancaster’s Midwinter Market will return to Lancaster’s central market square; showcasing local food and drink producers,… Read More »Natural dyes at Midwinter Market
Unlocking Lockdown is a community-based arts project organised by Sewing Café Lancaster. The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns have brought hardship and challenges to all of us in different ways and… Read More »Unlocking Lockdown: Exhibition
Bring a project and connect with the sewing, crafting, mending community. Would love to see your faces and hear about what you are working on. An evening event where Menders,… Read More »Beer & Yarn
Learn more about Sewing Cafe Lancaster, ongoing and upcoming projects and events, and how you can get involved in a community of passionate individuals who care about sustainability and our… Read More »What is Sewing Cafe all about?
Come and have a go at Hapa-zome and bundle dyeing with spring flowers at Claver Hil, with Enda O’Regan and Katrina Barnish from Sewing Cafe Lancaster. Free and all materials… Read More »Hapa-zome and Bundle Dyeing
Undressed: A festival unravelling our relationship with clothes. 22 - 26 April 2022 “Textile production is a major contributor to climate change. It produces an estimated 1.2 billion tonnes of… Read More »Undressed
Join us for our annual event honouring the victims of our unsustainable fashion consumption and give breath to new ideas and a different way of being. Learn about sustainability movements, individual and community action, learn a new skill or discover something new.
Every item of clothing has a story to tell. We are documenting local stories and portraits of garments and wearers for this year's Fashion Revolution Week event Interwoven. Maybe your… Read More »Craft of Use – Photoshoot
On the last Tuesday of each month, the un-named book club meets from 7:30 pm at the Gregson to discuss social and environmental issues that concern us all. Using a… Read More »Book Club