Videos from Costume Symposium tutors
Here are some taster videos from our talented tutors. Michele Carragher (Embroidery Embellishment) was a tutor at Costume Symposium in 2019, 2022 and 2023, Toni Bate (Women’s Period Tailoring) was a tutor at Costume Symposium in 2019 and 2022 and Riina Õun (Handmade Gloves) was with us in 2018, 2022 and 2023.
Embroiderer Michele Carragher (Game of Thrones) shows how she starts creating the embellished beetle design that participants learned how to make during her workshop at the 2019 Costume Symposium in Liverpool. Michele ran her workshop again at the 2022 Costume Symposium in Bristol and was with us in Huddersfield in 2023, this time with a different design.
Riina Õun, who led a workshop on handmade glove-making at the Costume Symposium at the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2018, demonstrates the technique of stitching the “points” on the back of a leather glove. Riina was one of the workshop tutors at the symposium at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in September 2022 and was with us again in 2023.
Toni Bate, Course Leader MA Costume Making at LIPA, shows how to cut a period bodice on the stand. Toni ran a period ladies’ wear pattern cutting workshop at the Costume Symposium at LIPA in 2019 and was the tutor for the Women’s Period Tailoring workshop at the 2022 Costume Symposium.
Videos from each Costume Symposium
You can watch videos from the Costume Symposium at Nottingham Trent University (2024), the University of Huddersfield (2023), Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2022), Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (2019) and the City & Guilds of London Art School (2018) to see what we offer.
The fifth Costume Symposium was held at Nottingham Trent University from 6 – 8 September 2024. Have a look at this video showing the Talks day and workshops.
Here is the video from the fourth Costume Symposium held at the University of Huddersfield (1 – 3 September 2023) so you can see what we have been doing.
Have a look at the video from the third UK Costume Symposium held at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2 – 4 September 2022) for a taste of the talks and workshops at the symposium.
Watch this video from the second UK Costume Symposium at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (6 – 8 September 2019) to see what it’s all about.
Here’s the video from the first UK Costume Symposium in London (15-19 June 2018).