Marble a Christmas Bauble & Gift Packaging Workshop
A workshop with Rocworx
Friday 3 October 2025
10:30am - 4:00pm
£80
Venue: MAKE Southwest
Suitable for: Adults
Level: All abilities
a Green Maker Initiative workshop
About Rachel O’Connell
I am a multi-media marbling artist, a sustainable maker and an educator. I marble on paper, textiles, including leather, and on wood. I love the diversity of marbling, creating leather goods, wearable textile art, home decor, lighting and stationery. Marbling is a surface pattern originating in Japan over a thousand years ago and is now seen as an endangered craft.
Marble A Christmas Bauble & Gift Packaging Workshop with Rocworx
If you love colour and pattern, you’ll love the mindful endangered heritage craft of marbling.
In this full day workshop, you will create stunning Christmas packaging, decorations and cards. You will marble on paper, learning basic patterns, to build a complex pattern to use to marble your own beautiful Christmas bauble and decoration papers.
After lunch, whilst your bauble dries, we will use your marbled papers to create a Christmas gift bag, cards and gift tags to take home with your gift wrap and bauble.
This workshop is a self-treat, a chance to play before the hectic preparations leading up to Christmas begin, to play with colour and pattern and have fun!
Your tutor, Rachel O’Connell, is a multi-media marbling artist and leatherworker. She has over 30 years marbling experience and has work in independent retailers, galleries and national museums.
She is a tutor for West Dean College, Oxford Summer School and runs workshops in schools, galleries and museums throughout the UK.
No previous experience of paper marbling is necessary.
All tools and materials will be provided.
Participants must be aged 18 years +.
On the Day
All tools and materials will be provided.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are included and will be available on the day. Our Café is also open should you wish to purchase other refreshments during the workshop - all participants receive a 10% discount voucher for food and drink purchased on the day.
On arrival, please make your way to the side gate of the Riverside Mill, through the courtyard and up the stone stairs on the side of the building. Please let us know if you require the lift.
Please be aware that you cannot use the Co-op car park for all day parking. The Methodist Church car park and Station Road car park usually have plenty of spaces. Click here for more information on our location and car parking for the day.
View MAKE Southwest's Cancellation Policy, HERE.