WORKSHOPS
Embroider With Nature
Sunny Bank Mills
4th September 10-12.30
Combine nature with embroidery on this workshop with Embroidery artist and educator Elnaz Yazdani!
Experiment with dried flowers and natural colours to create your own unique piece of embroidery art, Elnaz Yazdani dries and collects flowers from her allotment, garden, and walks. You will learn a range of exciting hand embroidery stitches to apply these elements of nature onto natural fabric using beadwork and hand embroidery.
The workshop combines nature with embroidery in an experimental way. Allowing you to explore process, nature, and connection in your own time.
Botanical eMBROIDERY & fLOWER pRINTING
Date: 5th September
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM
Location: Living Potential Community GardensWetherby, England
Join us at The Grief Garden for a creative textiles workshop with artist and gardener Elnaz Yazdani.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll gather blooms from the garden and transform them into beautiful botanical prints using the traditional technique of flower hammering. You'll then be invited to add simple hand embroidery, creating a unique textile piece inspired by your own memories, reflections and the person you are remembering.
Working alongside others, these individual pieces will become part of a collaborative textile artwork for permanent display in The Grief Garden, bringing together many stories of love, loss and remembrance. Through mindful making, conversation and time spent in the garden, we'll explore how creativity can help us honour the people we miss.
Art in the Orchard: Embroidery with Elnaz Yazdani (Wortley)
Date: 6th September
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Western Flatts Cliff Park Community Orchard, LS12 4HG
Join embroidery artist Elnaz Yazdani to create your own unique piece of orchard-inspired embroidery art.
You will learn a range of hand embroidery stitches and techniques using colourful threads, beads and dried flowers. Sitting in a beautiful orchard, you will be invited to observe and draw inspiration from fruit trees with their stunning foliage, fruits and bark. This workshop will allow you to learn and explore embroidery at your own pace in a relaxed environment.
Art in the Orchard: Embroidery with Elnaz Yazdani (Kirkstall)
Sat 12 Sep 2026 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Kirkstall Abbey Park Community Orchard, LS5 3EN
Join embroidery artist Elnaz Yazdani to create your own unique piece of orchard-inspired embroidery art.
You will learn a range of hand embroidery stitches and techniques using colourful threads, beads and dried flowers. Sitting in a beautiful orchard, you will be invited to observe and draw inspiration from fruit trees with their stunning foliage, fruits and bark. This workshop will allow you to learn and explore embroidery at your own pace in a relaxed environment.
Between Stitch & Silence
Take part in a new embroidery project with artist Elnaz & social anthropologist Rebecca. Are you encountering fertility issues and in the process of trying to conceive via assisted conception? Join us for a series of embroidery workshops ran by Elnaz as part of a PHD project in Social Anthropology where we will explore and represent your experience in stitch.
Contact: Rebecca.higginbottom@manchester.ac.uk
September 18th at Manchester University