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  • Guest Workshop: Photo Embroidery
  • Guest Workshop: Photo Embroidery
  • Guest Workshop: Photo Embroidery

Guest Workshop: Photo Embroidery

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    Join Zoe Boswell in this hands-on Guest Workshop to see photography in a new way.

    Learn embroidery skills, or employ the ones you know already to explore the creative possibilities of stitching directly onto photographs. The session will explore how to compliment or contrast your image to transform the story they tell.

    No materials needed; everything you need will be provided. However, if you have your own photographs (or negatives, etc!) you wish to stitch onto, please do bring them along.

    This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced stitchers: all abilities welcome!
    What are Guest Workshops?

    At Take It Easy Lab, we want to celebrate the wonderful creative community we’re part of here in Leeds. We love working with artists, makers and creatives to bring exciting new workshop experiences to our space.

    We believe one of the best ways to support Leeds’ creative ecology is by providing the space, resources and support for other creatives to share their skills and ideas. That’s why we’re always excited to meet new artists, discover new approaches and work together to bring inspiring workshops to Take It Easy Lab.

    Guest Workshop T&Cs

    Minimum numbers
    Guest workshops require a minimum of 6 participants to go ahead. If the minimum number is not reached, Take It Easy Lab reserves the right to cancel or postpone the workshop.

    If the workshop is cancelled
    If Take It Easy Lab or the workshop facilitator needs to cancel because the minimum number of participants has not been reached, all participants who have booked will be offered a full refund or the option to transfer their booking to a rescheduled date.

    Booking and payment
    Places are confirmed once payment has been received. Your place is reserved specifically for you and cannot be transferred to another person without prior agreement from Take It Easy Lab.

    Cancellations by participants
    If you can no longer attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Refunds for participant cancellations will be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on how close the cancellation is to the workshop date and whether your place can be filled.

    Workshop content
    Guest workshops are delivered by independent artists and creatives. While Take It Easy Lab works closely with each facilitator, the content, approach and delivery of each workshop are the responsibility of the individual workshop leader.

    Photography and documentation
    Take It Easy Lab or the workshop facilitator may take photographs or video during workshops for documentation and promotional purposes. We will always aim to let participants know when photography or filming is taking place. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please let us know when you arrive.
    Limited Spaces!

    About your host

    Zoe Boswell is a Leeds-based artist working with contemporary embroidery as a fine art practice. Her work transforms the mundane into works of art, using vintage photographs, postcards, and everyday materials as alternative canvases. Through the act of stitching, she disrupts the fixed realities these objects present, reworking the unknown memories to create new visual narratives.


    Zoe’s work utilises the traditional craft of hand embroidery, whilst simultaneously challenging the medium’s historic connotations. Through the use of unconventional methods and non-traditional surfaces, she subverts expectations of both material and technique. This shift in materiality introduces challenges within the making process and invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between craft, memory, and fine art.


    Her work is often displayed in a way that allows viewers to move around each piece, encountering both the front and reverse. The back reveals an unintended, and at times chaotic, composition of threads—messy, intricate, and unexpectedly beautiful. In exposing this usually hidden side, Zoe draws a parallel to the imperfect and layered nature of human experience, where what is concealed is as significant as what is seen.

    Proud to develop for

    • ★★★★★
      The experience of sending the film and getting images back was seamless, clear and friendly - so happy with my photos and the quality.
    • ★★★★★
      Fantastic film lab, can’t recommend them enough. Communication with Joe from the lab was excellent as he answered all my questions and the photos came out beautifully.
    • ★★★★★
      I’m completely new to film photography and only picked up this hobby recently. The people here were friendly and patient, explaining everything clearly and setting proper expectations. I am very happy with what I got.
    • ★★★★★
      Love these guys so much, always flawless service and very transparent about processing times! I used to bring them film when I lived locally but now I mail it from London - still the best!!
    • ★★★★★
      this lab has actually done wonders for me who has recently gotten into film photography. the website is so straight forward and the team over there are super helpful. i will be using this lab for years to come!
    • ★★★★★
      I have sent film to be developed by Take it Easy multiple times: I always get the scans back quickly, and they always look great. Once I had a ripped film and they even managed to salvage my shots! Will absolutely be using again and again, and I constantly recommend to friends (plus the mascot is adorable?)
    • ★★★★★
      Always a great service, I sent my films to be processed and scanned on a Monday and the scans dropped in my inbox Wednesday morning. They always keep you updated with turnaround times, and the scans are superb quality.
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    Take It Easy Lab
    Unit 1, 30-34 Aire Street
    Aire Street Workshops
    LS1 4HT

    Film Developing FAQ

    • Low Res:~1500 x 1000 pixels. - approx 700kb
      Ideal for using on the web / instagram.

      Medium Res (Standard):~3000 x 2000 pixels - approx 3mb
      Perfect for social media and will blow up to A4 if printing.

      High Res:~6000 x 4000 pixels - approx 15mb
      This option is perfect for those who require large files for archival and printing purposes. 

    • Unless you don't want them, we will always send your negatives back. The postage is selected at checkout and is for us to return your negatives. 

      There is also an option for if you don't want the negatives back. If you select this we will destroy your film in a GDPR manner.

    • If we receive a parcel with film(s) in it and it doesn't have an order number with it, we won't know who it belongs to. We always post images of the parcel and film on our Instagram stories in the hope that the owner of said order sees this and can notify us of the order number.

      Unfortunately if the order doesn't have an order number there is very little we can do, so if you think you've forgotten to include one when sending us film, please email us at hello@takeiteasylab.com with a full description of the package and film that was included.

    • Our Colour / B&W turnaround is usually within 4 working days of receipt of your order. E6/ECN-2 orders can be up to 1-2 weeks. Up-to-date turnaround times can be found in top header or on our Instagram.

    • Let’s really hope this never happens! But in the unfortunate case that it does, don’t worry, we’d never make you pay full price for this. We will happily refund the cost of the service, minus developing.

    • Once your files are delivered via Dropbox, we keep your files stored online for three months.

      After three months these files are deleted, so make you sure move all folders out of our dropbox onto your own HD or storage!

      We store physical orders / negatives at the lab for one month. These orders can be collected during weekdays while we are open. After one month these physical items will be destroyed in a GDPR compliant manner.

    • Yes we can. We can push your colour and black and white film up to 2 stops for no extra cost.

      For black and white pushed film, this is done externally and will extend the turnaround time by a week or so.

    • Once we have processed your order, we use the email address you supplied on your order form to send the files via Dropbox. Make sure you check your spam folder too.

      At checkout you have the option to receive your negatives back via post or you can collect them from our lab.