Print & Make A Lampshade

Two Crafts Under One Barn Roof

Lechlade Craft Barn has been running out of Karen Holland's old stone barn on the edge of Downington since 2014, when Karen and Jennie Turner-Maskell started it up to fill a gap for affordable, proper craft teaching in the area. Block printing is one of the courses that's stuck around longest, and this one pairs it with a second skill most people never get taught: building the lampshade that goes with it.

The printing blocks are hand-carved by artisans in rural India, and the morning is spent working two colours into a repeat pattern on a practice piece before printing the length of fabric that becomes the real thing. After lunch, that fabric goes onto a no-sew lampshade frame, in your choice of a 20cm or 30cm drum, sized for either a lamp base or a ceiling fitting. Materials, tea, coffee and biscuits are covered; bring your own lunch and something you don't mind marking, since the fabric ink stains.

Nobody in the room leaves with the same lampshade twice, including you.

Friday 18 September 2026 · Lechlade Craft Barn, Orchard House South, Downington, Lechlade GL7 3DL · 10am–4pm