Marché de Noël Maison

Instead of freezing on a street corner in one of our local towns for a  Marché de Noel we are offering our Jewellery, Hand produced fabric Items  & accessories - eg; Bags and cushion covers at a 'chez-nous'  Christmas sale, with some discounted prices.

There are also some small and affordable original paintings,  prints and cards by Artist Nikola Orpen and some of Cassette's famous Bougeois - (Candelabres).

Joining us will be Sarah Baghadoust  (and hopefully others).

We will all be selling some home produced festive food stuffs including Bio Apple juice and Prunes as well as Jams, marmalades and cakes.

We also roll out a new line in hand-produced soaps.

Nous vous convie à une après-midi marché de Noël à domicile, chez mes amis Shaun et Nikkie, qui ont choisi d'organiser cet évènement plutôt que se transformer cette année encore en glaçons en tenant un stand dans l'un de nos petits villages...

De nombreux articles faits mains à offrir vous seront proposés (bijoux, accessoires, sacs, coussins), ainsi que de petits tableaux réalisé par l'artiste Nikola Orpen à des prix tout à fait abordables, ainsi que d'autres de ses créations (cartes de voeux, impressions...)

Vous aurez aussi la possibilité de repartir avec un des célèbres bougeoirs Cassette !!

Vous bénéficierez de prix réduits pour cette occasion et pour avoir une idée des chefs d'oeuvre proposés je vous convie à aller faire un tour sur http://www.bijouterie.ateliersudouest.com/

Sarah Baghadoust participerai également à la vente en proposant des confitures et petits cadeaux maisons, et nous espérons que d'autres se joindront à nous !

Vous trouverez également des préparations culinaires pour les fêtes à emporter, confitures, marmelades et gâteaux, ainsi que du jus de pommes et des pruneaux bios.


Some items are also available at our Web-Shop

Felt Making Course Details

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Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

One day workshop - come and make some gifts fror friends and relatives.

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

Felted Jewellery Workshop - SURVIVE FRANCE NETWORK

Make your own Christmas present jewelry in this workshop

Das Affel Weekend

We at Texatelier are made of stern stuff - it ain't just embroidery round here.
The studio is surrounded by our beautiful organic orchard of some sixty trees.
We invited friends last weekend to help with the harvest - some said they'd rather stay home and sew, some came, got cold, climbed trees, pressed jus, and got a good feed into the bargain. It was fun and thanks to everybody who helped.

Indigo, Silk-Screen, Bags, Sarves .....

I have had a very busy time recently, so not had a great deal of time to write anything. I was over in the Uk in October at the Quay Arts Centre on the Isle of Wight working in their fabulously well equipped teaching space overlooking the river, 2 days of fun feltmaking with a group of about 10 people each day.

Day 1 was making nuno felt and embellished felted jewellery, and day 2, 3D feltmaking, where students made either a bag or a pot, using 2 different felting techniques. The photos speak for themselves.

Later that week at the City Art Gallery in Southampton, I gave a day class in screenprinting using hand cut stencils, this was a great success and all went home with fabric prints a plenty. And with much hard work, Prema even created some fabulous T shirts with a very simple but effective design. Well done her.

I was also able to cram in a day in London and went to Origin at Spittalfields to see lots of lovely handcrafted things for inspiration.

Then back here in France we were able to put on a day of Indigo dyeing with shibori. Deborah brought some of her homespun alpaca wool to experiment with ;

and Melanie went home with a beautiful upcycled indigo/shibori dyed shirt. 5 of us had a great day, wish it had been sunnier though, but lots of good company made up for the lack of sun.

I've now had to move the studio indoors as it's too cold to work in the Tex'Atelier barn, but next April we will open it up again for some new and exciting classes. Watch this space


I'm sowing some woad this week for next years classes so come the Spring we can be working with the traditonal dye material from this corner of S.W France.

I've recently been concentrating on creating some wax resist and indigo dyed pashmina type scarves, either in wool or viscose for, super colour, machine washable and lovely and warm too, perfect pressies.

 I have also created some small lined vintage linen bags/purses with a long strap. An ideal gift for the busy woman who travels, as they are perfect for flying, enough space for your essentials such as lipstick, glasses, money and documents



(I recently made one for myself and found it really useful at security as you don't have to cram it into your handluggage, just treat it as another item of clothing that goes through the xray, and it has a hidden pocket for those all important documents and passport. Oh and it also looks good too!)

I'm now making some lovely soft upcycled blanket cushions embellished with vintage linen.. I found a beautiful old witney blanket that needed some TLC - Pictures coming soon .............

Felted Jewellery

A one day workshop making embellished felted jewellery at Tex'Atelier.

Create some highly personalised christmas presents for family and friends.
Learn how to make your own felted beads to turn into a necklace, bracelet, earings, and brooches, incorporating threads and yarns and beads and buttons you will be certain to go home with some lovely handcrafted gifts.

35€ per person. All materials provided

Please bring something to share for a communal lunch.

Call Nikkie at Tex' Atelier
06 01 89 78 34 or 09 50 62 24 95
to reserve your place.
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