Upholstery workshop is furnishing Cloughmills community with new skills
Life-long creative skills are set to bind the Cloughmills community even closer together as upholstery classes become the latest offering at The Mill in the village.
Jim Whitten, Secretary, Cloughmills Community Action team said:
“We would like to thank the Housing Executive for their support which has helped us to take a further step forward in the regeneration of the Mill at Cloughmills.
“Participants have brought in their own pieces of furniture to be worked on in the workshop under the guidance of the tutor Anna Margaret Jamieson and all involved are gaining a real sense of achievement from the work undertaken.
“Anna is teaching them how to strip covers and braiding from chairs and replace these with new materials and beading.
“She is also guiding them through the processes of repainting chairs as well as repairing, re-stuffing and re-padding seat webbing and covers.
“Some of the men have made new foot stools in our woodwork workshop and then covered these with soft top covers in the upholstery workshop.”
“This upholstery course demonstrates the overriding principles we try to follow in our activities at the mill, to recycle, repair and re-use and it will help the organisation to expand its reach in the community.
“It is helping us to build capacity by demonstrating how our men’s shed and textile craft practitioners can work together on new projects within the community.”
Gareth Doran, Housing Executive Good Relations Officer said;
“This workshop at the mill is yet another fine example of how the Housing Executive’s support can go a long way in uniting local communities in practical and creative ways.
"Workshops such as these allow people to learn from each other and are the perfect environment to build new and lasting friendships between people who may never have met otherwise.”