Hello! My name is Alena Ruth & I run tufting workshops at my studio in Salford UK.

I began my tufting journey in 2016 whilst studying Visual Arts (BA) at the University of Salford, which had a pneumatic tufting equipment facility. Manchester Tufting Workshops was established in January 2020, then delayed by the pandemic, but ultimately bounced back.

My ethos has always been to make this stunning medium more accessible to the public. My teaching method is attentive to different learning styles, personalised to every individual & encouraging with every step. With an added focus on the mental health benefits of such a tactile tool, I nurture the childhood creativity that everyone once had with a solution-focussed attitude, to ease even the most nervous or doubtful of creators. Tufting is for everyone & everyone is guaranteed to make a beautiful product to be proud of.