Embroidery with Ann Beck, 8th - 13th April 2025 or (8th - 16th April including Paris add-on)

Accommodation (single or double occupancy bedrooms available).

Airport Transfers included, 2x pick up and drop off times.

Meals (delicious meals cooked by the hotel's team and chef).

Excursions, including entrance fees.

Work room with tables, chairs and magnifying lamps and trestle tables. 

Tuition fees.

Travel to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

Ann's Kit ($365 USD, 10% discount offered to class participants)

Travel Insurance.

Beverages.

Travel by Airplane
If you want to fly, please fly to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

Travel by Train
If you want to travel by train, please arrive at the Provins train station.

Travel by Car
If you would like to travel by car, please put this address into your Navigation system.

Aux Vieux Remparts, 3 rue Couverte, 77160 Provins.

• Provins

All rooms are en-suite with refined comfort in a chic and cozy atmosphere. Some offer a view of the city's rooftops, the garden or terrace for a relaxing stay. Their elegant decoration mixes stylish furniture, pastel and contemporary colors.

All rooms are equipped with a flat-screen TV with access to many channels including Canal +, air conditioning, welcome products and a relaxation or work area with table and armchairs. High-speed Wi-Fi is accessible free of charge throughout the establishment.

The bathrooms are all equipped with a bath or shower.

A courtesy tray with coffee and tea welcomes guests of the establishment.

All meals are included in Provins.  Any alcoholic beverages are not included.

Paris (Optional)

Only 1 meal is included (First night only)

Please bring the following:

- Sun cream
- Sun glasses
- Hat
- Camera
- Your class equipment (scissors etc)
- Travel adapters for French plugs
- Closed shoes for walking
- Light waterproof jacket

To join this holiday, you must be mobile enough to walk around the town of Provins. There are lifts in the hotel. If you have any severe medical conditions and certain disabilities, please contact us before you make the booking and we can help you to discuss your needs.

To Join the optional Paris trip, you must be mobile enough to walk around Paris for a whole day.

This tour will be physically demanding with long periods of walking and standing.

If you have any severe medical conditions and certain disabilities, please contact us before you make the booking and we can help you to discuss your needs.

Nightbird Embroidery Kit, Designed by Ann Beck

www.annbeckembroidery.com

The embroidery design for this kit has been adapted from my larger embroidery, Nightbirds, which I’ve worked on for several years. The kit uses the same skills employed to create Nightbirds, and is therefore intended for students with high
intermediate or advanced level embroidery skills.

You will be stitching with brilliant Au Ver a Soie silks, beautiful gilt, silver, and colored goldwork purls, sparkling Austrian and Czech crystals and beads, vintage sequins, silk wrapped facet gimp, and multiple types of metallic threads. You will use many skills, including various goldwork techniques, silk shading utilizing long and short stitch and split stitch, satin stitch, and a fishbone stitch variation. You will become adept at working with multiple colors at the same time, embellishing with metallic threads, and couching over cording. You will learn how to manipulate pearl purl into sharp points and undulating curves, and how to attach crystal lochrosen, beads and sequins.

This kit is designed to be embroidered on a slate frame, and cannot effectively be done in a hoop. The minimum size slate frame which will fit the kit is 12”. You may certainly use a larger slate frame if you prefer and are able to transport it. Due to the time required to teach the embroidery, I would like to have everyone purchase their kit and stretch their frames in advance of the workshop. If you require assistance stretching your frame, I will be happy to suggest a book or YouTube video which shows how to do it. You may also send your frame to me in San Francisco, and I can return it to you, with the fabric stretched and ready to go for a moderate fee. We will spend time on the first morning of the workshop checking the frames to make sure the silk is tight enough and ready for the embroidery.

You will begin this kit in the workshop, and complete it at home. All the techniques necessary for completion will be covered in the class, and a detailed instruction booklet will be provided to help you as you work on the kit at home. I will also be happy to answer any questions via email if you find there is some element you need assistance with. —Ann

Kit Price - $365 (10% discount offered to class participants)

Tools required for the kit that you should bring to the workshop:

-  Brass Stiletto - with one pointed end and one flat end (or a stiletto and a mellor)
-  Bent tip watchmakers tweezers
-  Goldwork scissors (small scissors with a finely serrated edge for cutting metal purls)
-  Embroidery scissors
-  Small needle nose pliers with a flat surface tipOther suggested items:
-  Velvet goldwork board — If you have one you may bring it, but there is only a small amount of goldwork cutting and chipping, so it is not required, you can manage without.
-  Beeswax (there will be a small beeswax in the kit, but if you prefer working with a regular size one, bring what you prefer).
-  One or two small box lids (approximately 3” x 5” x 1/2”, or around that size) lined with folded muslin or cotton, or other similar flat containers lined with fabric to hold beads and crystals.
-  Magnification lamps will be provided, but the work is very small and fine, so if you have difficulty seeing and need any additional magnification tools, please bring them.
-  Needle threader, if you have difficulty threading fine needles.

All necessary needles and threads will be included in the kit, but if you have particular needles or other items that you especially enjoy working with, please bring them!

Please see the photo of my tools for your reference.

Cancellation shall take effect only when Creative Experiences receives written notification from the person confirming the booking. All correspondence should be addressed to 55 Westfield Avenue, Cupar, Fife, KY15 5AA, United Kingdom or by email to info@creative-experiences. In all cases of cancellation, the deposit forfeit. The following cancellation fees expressed, as a percentage of the total holiday cost, will become immediately payable to Creative Experiences.

Cancellation charge:

Cancellation within 8 weeks; 40% of holiday cost payable

Cancellation within 7 weeks; 60% of holiday cost payable

Cancellation within 6 weeks; 80% of holiday cost payable

Cancellation within 4 weeks; 100% of holiday cost payable

Emergency

Creative Experience will provide you with assistance in case of emergency during your holiday with us. We can help you bringing you to health services, working with local authorities and international consulate in case you lost your passport or important papers.

If you have an emergency because of your own negligence, Creative Experiences may ask you for a fee occurred during the process such as extra transfers, missed bookings with third parties and more.

Conduct

When you enjoy your holiday with Creative Experiences, you are responsible for any damage or loss caused by you. In case of damage in a hotel or villa (third party supplier), the client has to pay the damage charges directly to the supplier.

We do reserve the rights to cancel your holiday, in case you put others in danger through your actions, verbal abuse and by causing significant distress to other holiday makers who are joining that group. We do not tolerate violence or abuse in any form to our clients or staff members.