What is Sewing Cafe all about?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spend the afternoon learning about the Palestinian art of Tatreez. Join Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Lancaster and Sewing Cafe Lancaster in the Music Room at The Storey for a hands-on experience […]
Join us for
Join us for 3 days of activities, workshops, speakers, and exhibits to explore how the wear and care of our clothes is entangled with the socio-
environmental crisis. Let’s nourish healthy relationships with the clothes in
our closet and the environments beyond.
All events are donation based/free.
Our event coincides with Fashion Revolution week 2025. Fashion Revolution was founded by Carrie Somers and Orlando Castro in the wake of the Rana Plaza (Bangladesh), disaster in 2013.
Find us in Gregson’s Snug Sew hand stitched fabric leaves and contribute to the ever enlarging commemorative exhibition for the thousands who died in the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse.
Pocket history, pocket instruction and pocket sewing. Make the most of your clothes!
A workshop for those intending or interested in making/adapting garments and outfits (for yourself or someone else to model) for our 2nd Alternative Runway to be staged on April 25th in Storey Gallery)