Are you ready to begin a new adventure?
Our Textile Art Courses have the power to unlock creative confidence. Accredited by City & Guilds they’re guaranteed to deliver exceptional content, high quality teaching and provide outstanding student support.
Whether you have a personal ambition or professional goal, our courses are designed to help crafters, makers and artists achieve more and unleash creative potential.
Register your interest today to receive a course brochure and be the first to know when enrolment opens. You’ll also get the chance to hear from our amazing graduates!
Unleash Your Creative Potential
Knitting
Skill Stages: 2, 3 and 4
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
Hand Embroidery
Skill Stages: 2, 3 and 4
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
Patchwork Quilting
Skill Stages: 2, 3 and 4
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
Textiles
Skill Stages: 2 and 3
Experience: Beginner and Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
Crochet
Skill Stage: 2 and 3
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1 year
Machine Embroidery
Skill Stages: 2, 3 and 4
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
Stumpwork
Skill Stage: 2
Experience: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 year
Felt Making
Skill Stages: 2, 3 and 4
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: Up to 1-2 years
If you need some inspiration from other artists in the textiles community, read through our content below, including stories from the likes of Cassandra Dias, Michele Carragher and more.
Sarah Crowe hadn’t studied formally since finishing her MA back in 2007. Ten years into a career teaching in secondary schools, she found herself longing for a way back into
Jan Beaney’s machine embroidery begins long before a needle touches fabric. It starts in a sketchbook, with a scribble she would never show anyone else, built from a habit she
It took a glassworker’s eye to see the possibilities in wool. Wendy Sellers had spent years shaping glass when a felt artist moved into a studio nearby, and one workshop
Originally published 2018, updated July 2026 I’m often asked how exactly SST’s enrolment process works, and it’s a fair question, because there’s more going on behind the scenes than most
Jan Beaney’s machine embroidery begins long before a needle touches...
Read More >>There is a particular kind of textile artistry that most...
Read More >>Victoria Merness’s photographic embroidery began with an ultimatum, not a...
Read More >>There is something quietly magical about seeing thread come to...
Read More >>Be Inspired! Get beautiful and exclusive interviews with leading textile artists straight into your inbox.
