Threaded Petals with Katerina Knight
Katerina Knight
September 19 – 26, 2026
$235 for members
$275 for non-members
Threaded Petals is a hand embroidery workshop that invites you to discover Katerina’s unique process for creating delicate textile structures that are threaded with earth’s ephemeral offerings.
Guided by Katerina, you will be introduced to knotting and needlelace stitches, such as – interlacing, single brussels, and herringbone ladder filling stitch, and how dried petals and seeds can be incorporated as alternative embellishment materials. Each stage will gradually develop in complexity. Once you have mastered the techniques, Katerina will provide you with tips and inspiration for the next steps in taking these stitches forward and create larger textile artworks.
This workshop is a personal interpretation to needlelace – a homage to the traditions of the craft, reimagined through Katerina’s artistic style. Katerina’s practice delicately blends nature and craft, the floral materials Katerina works with are homegrown where she lives in Malvern, in the Worcestershire countryside, UK. In 2022, she spent time working in the archive of The Lace Guild Museum in Stourbridge, the largest lace organisation in the UK. Learning about “Punto in aria”, an early form of Italian needlelace, translating to “stitch in air”, inspired her to reinterpret the intricacy of needlelace techniques, through her own artistic language — intertwining horticulture and textile, flora and thread.
All sessions will be held online over Zoom and recorded. Recordings will be emailed to participants within 24 hours of the session. Recordings are available for one year. This workshop features 2 hour instruction sessions on Saturdays and a midweek meetup to troubleshoot, share progress, and gather in community with other participants.
Live sessions are scheduled as follows:
Saturday, September 19, 12-2PM EDT (convert timezone)
Wednesday, September 23, 2-3PM EDT (convert timezone)
Saturday, September 26, 12-2PM EDT (convert timezone)
Gallery
About Your Instructor
Katerina Knight is an English textile artist, writer, and educator. Katerina specialises in one-of-a-kind handmade textile artworks that explore narratives of personal and planetary healing represented through horticulture and slow textile making. Having left the luxury fashion industry behind, Katerina now has a slow artistic practice. She specialises in one-of-a-kind handmade textile artworks that explore narratives of personal and planetary healing represented through horticulture and slow textile making. Her works have been exhibited across Europe, such as at Collect Art Fair in London, XTANT in Mallorca, and Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
She trained at The Glasgow School of Art in printed textile design and then completed her Masters in Textiles at the Royal College of Art London as a Burberry Design Scholar.
Katerina now lives in the heart of the English countryside in Malvern, Worcestershire, immersed in a natural landscape where she cultivates her own flora. Katerina travels internationally delivering her artisan workshop series Stitching With Nature, with the endeavor to share how working akin with nature and craft can strengthen well-being.
Katerina is the features editor at Selvedge magazine – an international publication about the culture of cloth. Further, she writes editorial journalism for other publications such as Resurgence and Ecologist and Surface Design Journal.
On 1 October 2026 Katerina’s first book Stitching With Nature will be published by Batsford.