Winter Wellbeing: Festive Embellishment Beadwork & Creative Upcycling with Elnaz Yazdani
Drawing Room, Art Library, Leeds Central Library (Floor 1), Leeds, LS1 3AB
Monday 7th December 2026 5:30PM
Join Elnaz Yazdani for a workshop on creative festive embroidery embellishments.
Work on an embellished sample or upcycle onto a jumper or other item of knitwear. Together we will enjoy learning decorative beadwork and contemporary techniques.
Please bring in a clean jumper to embellish if you wish to upcycle.
All other materials and refreshments are included.
Elnaz Yazdani is an embroidery artist, gardener and educator based in Yorkshire. Elnaz is dedicated to sharing her textile skills and promoting the importance of embroidery as an art form for the future and for community wellbeing.
Elnaz has taught embroidery throughout her community, within primary, secondary and higher education as well as community groups and organisations.
In 2020 Elnaz was commended for the teaching excellence award in embroidery via the Embroiderers Guild and became an Embroiderers Guild Scholar after the successful launch of her virtual embroidery school ‘Embroider Your Future’.
In 2025 Elnaz was awarded a Master of Arts by Research in recognition of a programme of work entitled ‘Rethinking Embroidery: Connecting, Embellishing and Transforming Communities Through Embroidery.
Her practice explores ways of transforming traditional embroidery techniques through her choice of unusual materials; she is inspired by industrial materials, nature and with the ways in which she can embellish, connect or transform these items through stitch to develop a surface or form.
Her unique embroidery style has allowed her to work across community groups and organisations exploring the use of embroidery and gardening as a tool for social prescribing. Connecting, Embellishing and Transforming communities through stitch and plants. Exhibiting embroidery work since graduating from her BA at Manchester School of Art in 2014.
Elnaz is available for workshops, talks, embroidery commissions, exhibitions and collaborative projects.
Age: 11+
£12
Work on an embellished sample or upcycle onto a jumper or other item of knitwear. Together we will enjoy learning decorative beadwork and contemporary techniques.
Please bring in a clean jumper to embellish if you wish to upcycle.
All other materials and refreshments are included.
Elnaz Yazdani is an embroidery artist, gardener and educator based in Yorkshire. Elnaz is dedicated to sharing her textile skills and promoting the importance of embroidery as an art form for the future and for community wellbeing.
Elnaz has taught embroidery throughout her community, within primary, secondary and higher education as well as community groups and organisations.
In 2020 Elnaz was commended for the teaching excellence award in embroidery via the Embroiderers Guild and became an Embroiderers Guild Scholar after the successful launch of her virtual embroidery school ‘Embroider Your Future’.
In 2025 Elnaz was awarded a Master of Arts by Research in recognition of a programme of work entitled ‘Rethinking Embroidery: Connecting, Embellishing and Transforming Communities Through Embroidery.
Her practice explores ways of transforming traditional embroidery techniques through her choice of unusual materials; she is inspired by industrial materials, nature and with the ways in which she can embellish, connect or transform these items through stitch to develop a surface or form.
Her unique embroidery style has allowed her to work across community groups and organisations exploring the use of embroidery and gardening as a tool for social prescribing. Connecting, Embellishing and Transforming communities through stitch and plants. Exhibiting embroidery work since graduating from her BA at Manchester School of Art in 2014.
Elnaz is available for workshops, talks, embroidery commissions, exhibitions and collaborative projects.
Age: 11+
£12
Event Details
From 5:30PM to 7:30PM
