Most of us have a box somewhere. Letters from a grandmother. A worn recipe card in familiar handwriting. A child’s first scrawled name on a birthday card. We keep these things because handwriting carries something photographs can’t - the rhythm of a person, their hesitation, their care.
Rosalind Wyatt has spent decades exploring that idea. Her practice sits at the crossroads of calligraphy, embroidery, and storytelling - a world she calls 'writing with a needle'. In this course, she’ll show you how to take your own stories, your own written archive, and find a way to hold them in cloth.
You don’t need to arrive with a clear idea or a polished technique. This course begins where you are: with whatever is in your sketchbook, your memory box, or your wardrobe. Rosalind will guide you through research, mark-making, and composition, all the way to stitching letters and images onto a chosen garment or textile. What emerges will be entirely, unmistakably yours.
This is not an embroidery class. It is not a calligraphy class. It is something richer - an invitation to find your own visual voice, and give it a home in fibre and thread.
