Creative education workshops
Encouraging curiosity in young people from primary school through to 16 and beyond, building cultural capital and expanding creative horizons, discover your fashion stories.
We work with local partner schools and colleges on curriculum programmes including our annual programme, Innovation Challenge and collaborative creative workshops with East Bank partners such as East Summer School.
All activities deliver:
- Employability skills.
- Gatsby benchmarks.
- Cultural capital growth.
Weaving Hope | Tenun Pahang
Designing a modern range of pieces using the traditional-craft textiles of Tenun Pahang, introducing, and launching a small range of luxury garments into the global fashion market.
In May 2023, the high-quality skills, and traditional Malaysian woven textiles, were introduced as part of London Craft week. The exhibition which documented this traditional fabric, was conceived, curated, and presented in collaboration with Queen Azizah of Malaysia and Professor Judith Clark (LCF) at the Malaysian High Commission. The exhibition was an impressive showcase of the 700-year-old traditional weaving craft, with Her Majesty the Queen, championing its revival and bringing the beauty of this luxury textile, (woven by prisoners) to the world.
Passionate about arts, culture and craft, Queen Azizah is even more enthusiastic about the prisoners that she works with providing them with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to make transformative change within their lives.
The traditional woven fabric produced by the prisoners is about “weaving hope”……reviving the weaving of Tenun Pahang and providing hope for the prisoners as they go through the process of rehabilitation.
These traditional textiles are deeply embedded into Malay life and identity, recognized throughout society within ceremonial dress or religious practice and some special weaves may define family brands.
It is due to Queen Azizah patronage that this fine craft has been maintained within Malay culture and as she ensures that the traditional craft is kept very much within the culture and identity of a nation.