ELTA Summer Term
Kantha Sainsbury Bag Elephant embroidered for Textile Tales Revealed
Classes re-starting
Wednesday April 23
11- 1pm and
1.30 - 3.30 pm
and continuing Wednesdays during
School Terms
This term we will be focused on puppet making
Little Ilford Baptist Church
Sheringham Avenue E12 5PA
11 am - 1.pm
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and now due to popular demand
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New Afternoon Class
in partnership with
Hopeful Futures
Wednesdays 1.30 - 3.30 pm
All Classes free of charge
But phone first if you are coming
for the first time.
Numbers are limited for the
afternoon class
0798 599 3191
Above Mythical Bird
For more photos go to
Textiles Tales Revealed
pages on website
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We thank
The National Lottery Players
for their generous support
of our project
East London Textile Arts (ELTA) is a collective running participatory textile projects in Newham, East London. We work with diverse groups of all abilities on a long term developmental basis building a wide range of skills within communities.
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We create striking artworks and sell our cards, decorated papers and printed fabrics at open days and craft shops in East London. We work with adults with learning disabilities, and we collaborate with visiting artists while training unemployed young people.
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​Information about weekly classes can be found here. All are welcome, from beginners to highly skilled. ​
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£53,385 grant won
from the
National Heritage Lottery Fund
For our first images and words go to
Textile Tales Revealed
First Moldovan Tale
Decorated Heritage Papers
Russian Dragons in a boat from old embroidery design
ELTA is thrilled to announce our award of a National Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £53,385.
This is to record and celebrate our 15 year history and the many different textile traditions within the borough of Newham. Eastside Community Heritage will be partnering with us and will be creating an oral history of textile makers within our projects.
We thank the Lottery Players for this generous funding and we also thank the DeLaszlo Foundation for their partnership funding.
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Chinese Creature
based on Folk Embroidery Design
Russian Beast from traditional folk embroidery design
What is ELTA Like?
Here are a few words by
one of regular embroiderers
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"I love going to the weekly group as I get the opportunity to chat to other embroiders some of whom have far more experience than I do, it's amazing how many tips and tricks you pick up simply by speaking to others. I love that the embroideries (because they are project themed) are completely different to what I would normally sew. For example as part of the Romeo & Juliet project we embroidered stone arches to be appliqued on to Juliet's dress together with axes and daggers this time for Romeo's costume."
Sandra Elliot,
ELTA embroiderer, rag-rug maker
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