Golden Petals : Goldwork Embroidery & Notebook Making with Beth Cole

Location: Hand & Lock School for Embroidery & Creative Arts, 86 Margaret Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1W 8TE
Duration: 2 Day Workshop (10am - 4:30pm each day) 

In this two-day workshop, students will make a handmade notebook with a custom embroidered cover. The design features a single goldwork flower stitched inside a diamond shape. Participants will be guided through the key techniques of goldwork embroidery, and achieve a clean, professional finished book. 

The project is inspired by Beth’s collection of floral diamond notebooks, which focuses on simple, stylised motifs combined with detailed goldwork surfaces. Along the way, students will build confidence in stitching, design placement, and basic bookbinding.

By the end of the workshop, each student will have a finished notebook and a solid introduction to goldwork techniques they can continue to develop in their own work.

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-  Couching Goldwork materials 

- Goldwork Cutwork

- Goldwork techniques including chipping and using spangles

- Constructing a book

- All materials and tools will be provided. You will be able to choose your own colours for the design and work with whichever materials you prefer during the course. 

- If you wish you are welcome to bring your own mug for refreshments and your own embroidery kit, though this is completely optional and not required.

Beth Cole graduated from the Royal School of Needlework in 2018 and has since worked as a freelance embroiderer across the worlds of haute couture fashion, interiors, film, and television. Beth specialises in hand-embroidered and handbound books, spending two years refining this unique combination of goldwork embroidery and bookbinding. This exploration led to the creation of her most ambitious embroidered book to date, Verses of the Vine. She was recently honoured as a Trade Freeman of the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers, a historic London livery company associated with the craft of fine metal threads used in goldwork embroidery. Beth now teaches a wide range of embroidery and bookbinding classes across the UK for guilds, craft groups, and interior design studios, sharing her expertise in traditional goldwork techniques and contemporary embroidered bookmaking.