Celia Pym Mending Workshop – At Loop

New dates for 2025!

We will be adding more dates throughout the year. 

Look out for the wonderful film we made at Loop of our event to celebrate the launch of Celia’s book! 

The workshop will be all day from 11- 4:30pm with a break for lunch.  

Date: Saturday April 12th 2025

Saturday 7 June 

Saturday 13 September 

Saturday 8 November 

Time: 11-4:30pm with a break for lunch. 

Suggestions for materials to bring:

Yarns + Threads:
Sajou St Pierre Threads (for mending on finer or thinner materials)
Jamiesons of Shetland Spindrift
Lang Jawoll Sock Yarn
Ito Sensai

Needles:
Prym Darning Needle pack

Optional:
Darning Egg
We also stock handmade darning mushrooms by Hikaru Noguchi.

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MANY THANKS.

Class outline
Mending is a workshop that explores textile repair on knitted and wool textiles, how you do it and why you do it. It considers the tenderness and care of mending. The aim of the workshop is to practice mending techniques on knit. You will learn about artists working with repair. You will learn and develop skills in woven and fake ‘knitted’ darning. There will also be an opportunity to work on repairing any sweaters and socks and wool accessories, that you own and that have holes. Please bring along any damaged wool and knitted items that you would like to discuss repair options for. Darning materials will be provided. No previous darning, knitting, needle-based experience is necessary. 

Taught by Celia Pym. 
Celia Pym has been exploring mending since 2007 with extensive experience of small, everyday holes, at heels, elbows, in pockets as well as working on more dramatic damage, from water damage, animal nesting, and moths issues. Celia’s interests are around the evidence of damage – through repair you look closely at where garments and cloth have got worn down and thin. In clothing, this wearing is often to do with use and how the body moves. Celia says “she likes that darning is often small acts of care and paying attention to where things fray and wear out.”

Celia Pym is an artist living and working in London most recently her work has been included in exhibitions Woman’s Hour Craft Prize, V&A Museum and Loewe Craft Prize, COAM, Madrid and 21_21, Tokyo. In 2018 she was commissioned to make Flying Gold Cape for Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. A new ambitious work using a cape from the museum’s archive collection of Opera Garnier costumes. She is currently a visiting lecturer in Knitted and Mixed Media textiles at the Royal College of Art.

www.celiapym.com

Photographs courtesy of ©Celia Pym

100% deposit is required at registration.

* Please email the shop or give us a ring if you would like to be added to a waiting list when classes sell out. We will let you know if spaces become available.  Please also note that our waiting lists do not roll over to the next scheduled classes.  You will need to let us know for each class you are interested in. 

Cancellation policy

A refund of payment for the class will be given for cancellations only if the spot can be filled by another student, minus a 10% admin fee. Please be considerate. 
We reserve the right to cancel a class in unusual circumstances. We try to avoid this wherever possible, but sometimes it cannot be avoided. In this situation, of course, a full refund will be given.

We’re sorry, but Loop cannot be financially responsible for extreme weather conditions or any other situations that are out of its’ control.