Roses From The Heart - Free Bonnet Making Workshop

Name: Roses From The Heart - Free Bonnet Making Workshop
Start: 2025-09-12T00:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-12T05:00:00+10:00
Location: 63 High Street, New Norfolk, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7140

Schedule

Fri Sep 12 2025 at 12:00 am to 05:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

63 High Street, New Norfolk, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7140 | Claremont, TS

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL - places are very limited
FREE workshops. A fun day, this event includes lunch and refreshments.
You will be given a kit with 2 partially sewn bonnets and embellishments to complete.
Roses from the Heart is the first memorial to all women sentenced to transportation to Australia 1788-1853. Artist Christina Henri’s aim is for 25,566 symbolic cloth bonnets to be created in acknowledgement of these womens existence. The pattern chosen replicates a servants bonnet, circa 1860.
The workshops will be focussed on convict women with a connection to New Norfolk. Participants bonnets will be included in a display at the artHouse Cafe, New Norfolk to take place following the workshops in September.
Each participant will receive two partially stitched bonnets. Attendees wishing to make a bonnet for a female convict ancestor will be welcome to do so. Hand or machine sewing options are available.
Members of the Bonnet-making group who meet regularly with Christina Henri in New Norfolk will be on hand to guide anyone needing assistance in sewing, embellishing or embroidery. Amongst these volunteers are talented artists, embroiderers and tailoresses.
Christina Henri will share some insights into her Roses from the Heart project. There will be information on some of the convict women associated with New Norfolk and historian Ruth Binny will provide a glimpse of her ancestor, Elizabeth Bartlett’s life. Elizabeth and her husband James Bryan Cullen were granted the heritage property now known as ‘Glen Derwent’.
The two workshops on offer have been made possible through funding by the Tasmanian Community Fund to Loreto Community Housing. Roses from the Heart successfully obtained funding through the Inspiring Future Leaders Program run by Loreto Community Housing.
Thanks to the bonnet making volunteers for their enthusiastic involvement.