A series of creative workshops starting with a scrunchie making class.
Published:Blue Tit London is expanding its community-focused salon offering with a series of creative workshops in collaboration with sustainability-led designer and textile artist Lydia Bolton, bringing together upcycling, personal style and conscious craft.
The sustainable salon collective is inviting local communities into its neighbourhood spaces for a series of scrunchie-making workshops this autumn, encouraging participants to explore textile reuse while creating their own personalised hair accessories.
The collaboration brings together two businesses with eco-conscious values at their core, supporting Blue Tit’s ambition to position its salons as creative community spaces beyond the traditional appointment chair.
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Titled London’s Cutest Craft Night: Make & Style Your Own Scrunchie with Lydia Bolton x Blue Tit, the two-hour workshops combine hands-on creativity with professional hair styling advice.
Led by Bolton, participants will create their own scrunchies using deadstock, vintage and sustainably sourced fabrics, giving materials a new lease of life through a practical upcycling project.
Blue Tit stylists will also demonstrate how to tie and style the finished accessories, connecting the creative process with everyday hair styling and personal expression.
Each participant will leave with a bespoke scrunchie, as well as new ideas for incorporating handmade accessories into their look.
Bolton is a sustainability-led designer and creative textile artist known for transforming waste streams into fashion, objects, installations and experiences. Founded in 2019, her eponymous brand champions reuse through thoughtfully created womenswear and homeware made using deadstock fabrics, sleeping stock and thrifted items.
Her work challenges conventional perceptions of waste, demonstrating how discarded or overlooked materials can become desirable, functional pieces.
Alongside her collections, Bolton collaborates with brands, institutions and communities to explore more sustainable approaches to design and consumption. Her previous collaborations include Nike, River Island, Channel 4, Manchester United and Westfield.
Upcycling workshops are a central part of her practice, helping people develop the practical skills and confidence to extend the life of textiles themselves.
By teaching participants to transform existing materials into something new, the workshops encourage a more creative approach to reducing textile waste and keeping useful materials in circulation.
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For Blue Tit London, the partnership reflects a broader vision of its salons as neighbourhood spaces where people can connect through creativity, sustainability and personal style.
Rather than limiting the salon experience to hair appointments, the workshops offer an opportunity for local communities to gather, learn a new skill and share an interest in more conscious ways of living.
The collaboration also creates a natural connection between textile upcycling and hairdressing, demonstrating how accessories, styling and individual expression can intersect with sustainability.
Through the initiative, Blue Tit and Bolton are bringing creative reuse into an accessible, social setting, encouraging participants to make something personal while considering the potential of materials that might otherwise go unused.
For more infro and to book tickets, visit Blue Tit London or explore Lydia Bolton’s work at lydiabolton.co.uk and follow her on Instagram.
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