MAY MORRIS EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP

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One-day practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio.

This workshop on Tue 27 Jan 2026 is now fully booked. The event is being repeated on Wed 28 Jan 2026:

May Morris Workshop 28 Jan 2026


With embroidery expert & author Dr Lynn Hulse

Participants who join this embroidery workshop will be introduced to Morris’s approach to materials, colour and stitch using one of the designs featured in her new Ashmolean book May Morris Designs: The Very Soul and Essence of Beautiful Embroidery, published in August 2025.

There will also be an opportunity to study some of Morris’s embroideries as well as her working designs in the Ashmolean collection.

This is a practical workshop. All stitching materials will be provided in the form of a kit which will enable you to complete the design after learning the techniques and starting the embroidery in class.

All materials will be provided.

    

Maids of Honour flower drawing by May Morris for a fire screen panel or cushion cover design, dated to about 1890

Maids of Honour fire screen panel or cushion cover, May Morris, c.1890, polychrome silks on silk © Paul Reeves collection

May Morris flower pattern outline from one of her scrapbooks

May Morris flower pattern outline from one of her scrapbooks

     

This event is part of our Connect & Collaborate season of events.


BOOKING

This workshop on Tue 27 Jan 2026 is now fully booked. The event is being repeated on Wed 28 Jan 2026:

May Morris Workshop 28 Jan 2026

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk