Imprint mag and the Sewing Cafe Lancaster: on sewing, sharing skills and building communities

Come along, meet the team, have a chat and get one of the mending kits our team have made for you.

By Professor Alan Rice Online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption. To book… Read More »Storytelling Cafe: Frances Elizabeth Johnson

By Professor Imogen Tyler Online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption. Book your… Read More »Storytelling Café: Jack Gladstone and the Demerara Slave Rebellion (1823)

Ibo Boy Story by Drahoslava Machova and Dent Runaway Story Professor Imogen Tyler, an online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us… Read More »Ibo Boy and Dent Runaway Stories

Learn how to make a dye from dried or fresh ingredients, experiment eco-printing and more by Katrina Barnish and Sewing Cafe Lancaster's team. Where? At The Rewilding, Patty's Barn LA2 0DY https://www.the-rewilding.com/ How much? Early bird £60 until the 22nd of May Full £65 How to book? sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com Limited numbers in a Covid safe environment

Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, get the zoom link at sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com or at www.sewingcafelancaster.com… Read More »Storytelling Café: Dent Runaway Story and Sattherwaite Family

Sewing Café Lancaster and Stitched Up Co-operative collaborate to reimagine the textile Industry while doing some mending! 7th Degrowth / 16th ISEE International Society for Ecological Economics Conference: “Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis" Registration: https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register

Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption By Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler and Emily Yates, Lancaster Girls Grammar school students and researchers. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories… Read More »Storytelling Café: The Lancaster Lindows

We are back to the Pub! 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.

Come and have a taste of the variety of vibrant colours using non toxic plant based processes. Bookings at: 1pm to 2:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dyeing-fabric-with-kitchen-waste-lancaster-health-festival-tickets-163827166465 3pm to 4:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dyeing-fabric-with-kitchen-waste-lancaster-health-festival-tickets-163827296855 Come and have a taste of the variety of vibrant colours using non toxic plant based processes. Learn the basics on how to extract and use… Read More »Dyeing With Kitchen Waste

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 Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, get the zoom… Read More »The Lancaster Gregsons and the Brockbanks: Links to Empire and Transatlantic Slavery