We had a lot of fun running an unweaving, aka “reverse drafting” workshop in Sheffield last Tuesday! This was inspired by a workshop Alex helped run with Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Dave Griffiths back in 2014, and more recently the ongoing “…
We’re happy to open our call for local live coders to take part in a low-intensity residency! It’ll happen over a weekend per month from May ‘til August, finishing with a public event early September. We are looking for a diverse group of p…
It took a little while to get the material together, but we’re super happy with this short film about the Pattern Club Winter School that we ran in early 2025. You can read a bit more about it in an earlier blog post. Thanks to everyone who…
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We’re happy to be hosting Alpaca Festival in Sheffield from 12-14th September 2025, exploring a wide variety of algorithmic patterns in the creative arts over three days of talks, workshop and music. It’ll be hosted by Pattern Club Sheffiel…
Hello! I’m James, and I organise events for London Pattern Club. We have a few events coming up next week, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to update you on our activities. After the popularity of our craft groups at The Glitch, we’ve
Over the past month or so, we ran a pilot Sheffield Pattern Club Winter School. We had 24 applications, from which we had to reluctant select around half participants. This was really difficult, it would have been great to include everyone!…
Welcome to the pattern club hub! A “pattern club” is where people meet to explore patterns in craft, technology, music, performing arts etc. We see no gap between heritage patterns e.g. in weaving and braiding and new patterns e.g. in live
Open call for artists, designers, musicians, crafters, makers and other creative people in/around Sheffield. Deadline: 9pm, Monday 25th November, 2024. Course dates: Four Saturdays, 11am-5pm, during January/February 2025 – plus extra sessio…
All participants at Pattern Club events, including attendees, performers, organisers and volunteers, are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Please support it and help ensure a safe environment for everybody. To meet our a…
Sheffield Pattern Club is a group of people who meet up to explore patterns in craft, technology, music, performing arts etc. Imposters and beginners are welcome. If you have thoughts/questions to share/ask please get in contact. Instigated…
London Pattern Club was established in April 2023 with the aim of exploring algorithmic creative practices – such as creative coding, knitting and weaving – through affordable talks and workshops. We aim to offer a space for people interest…