Tufting Workshop: Make Your Own Rug or Wall Hanging

Tiger Lily Tufts are running tufting workshops at Hotwalls Studios in Old Portsmouth, with sessions starting on Sunday 18 October 2026 and continuing through to Saturday 30 January 2027. They run throughout the week and on weekends, so you can pick a slot that actually fits your schedule rather than working around it.

If you've never tried it, tufting is essentially a way of making a rug by shooting yarn through a fabric backing with a tufting gun. In these sessions, you'll work with a cut-pile gun on a 45x45cm workspace, and you get to decide whether your finished piece becomes a mini rug or a wall hanging. You take home whatever you make, so you leave with something you can actually use.

Each session lasts three and a half hours, and they're kept small, with no more than four people at a time. That means you're not just one of twenty people in a room; you'll get proper attention while you're working. It's a good setup if you're a complete beginner and want to get the hang of the gun without feeling rushed or ignored.

Hotwalls Studios is a home for maker-led classes, with painting, printing and weaving taught by the resident designer-makers who work there. Tiger Lily Tufts is one of them, and this workshop is part of that wider scene of making going on in the studios. It costs £95 per person, and with sessions running right through to the end of January, there's plenty of time to find a date that works for you.