Create
Try your hand at the processes behind Rachel's sculptures.
Weaving, knotting, braiding and crochet are at the heart of Rachel's practice. Through online tutorials, creative kits and workshops, you can explore some of these techniques for yourself — learning techniques that have developed through Rachel's own studio practice.
Whether you're making a woven garden sphere, learning to braid with a Viking lucet or experimenting with macramé, Create is an invitation to make, experiment and discover.
Make a Sculpture
Unleash your creativity and enhance your garden with the Sphere Weaving Kit, designed to help you craft a captivating 40cm woven sphere sculpture.
Complete kit to create a stunning 40cm diameter woven sphere sculpture.
Access to an online tutorial for step-by-step guidance.
Perfect for enhancing garden aesthetics and outdoor spaces.
Transform your outdoor space into a work of art with a personal touch, and enjoy the satisfaction of creating your own unique sculpture.
Each kit contains: Eco Fibre in Slate Grey, Sphere frame, Tie Wraps and a hanging hook and chain.
Create your own woven garden sculpture.
This complete kit introduces you to the woven eco-fibre process used in Rachel's sculptural practice. Working around a 40cm metal sphere frame, you'll learn how to build texture and form through repeated weaving.
The kit includes everything you need to make your sphere, together with access to a step-by-step online tutorial so you can work at your own pace.
Learn the techniques
Explore some of the weaving, knotting and braiding techniques that sit behind Rachel's wider practice. These free tutorials are designed to help you experiment with structure, pattern and repetition at your own pace.
Chevron Pattern
Join Rachel Carter for a Macrame workshop learning the Double Half Hitch to create Chevron patterns.
You will need 26m of cord. Suitable for ages 11+
Mini Leaf Pattern
Join Rachel Carter for a Macrame workshop as she introduces the Double Half Hitch worked from the left and right to create a beautiful macrame panel.
You will need 25m of cord. Suitable for ages 11+
Inspire Hanging
Created especially for Inspire Culture, this macrame art piece uses the Double Half Hitch and the Square Knot.
You will need 26m of cord. Suitable for ages 11+
Creative Kits
These techniques have also become part of Rachel's wider community and heritage projects, where making provides a way to connect people with stories, places and one another.
Macrame
Learn how to create decorative braids using seven strands of thread and a weaving disc.
Developed as part of the heritage project Standing In This Place.
Join sculptor Rachel Carter and learn how to use a Viking Lucet to create a beautiful square braid using a range of cotton cords.
Developed as part of the heritage project Pilgrim Woman.
“If you’ve enjoyed the weaving tutorials, why not take a visit to Rachel Carter Sculpture Youtube channel for lots more videos by clicking the icons”