Wonderful Waste - Making Jewellery Using Soft Plastic Packaging
Sat 11 Jul
|Fishergate Room
A hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to safely fuse soft plastic packaging into colourful, patterned materials and turn them into earrings and a brooch!
Time & Location
11 Jul 2026, 10:30 – 12:30
Fishergate Room, 7-15 Fye Bridge St, Norwich NR3 1LJ, UK
About the event
SATURDAY 11TH JULY | 10.30-12.30PM
Learn how to use an iron to safely fuse soft plastic packaging into a versatile art and craft material with artist and experienced teacher Rachael Barns. You will find out about the different plastics that can be used and how to create a range of coloured and patterned materials. You will use these to make a pair of earrings and a brooch.
Templates will be provided but you will also be supported to create your own designs. You will use hand sewing to join the pieces of fused fabric – you don’t need to have great sewing skills to do this, if you can sew on a button you can do these stitches!
Rachael will also bring examples and give you ideas about other ways you could use fused soft plastics in the future.
Rachael is an exhibiting artist working predominantly with waste materials. She…
Tickets
One session
£25.00
+£0.63 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00