Family Event: Lavender Bags with Clare

Just before Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 begins (Monday 12 - Sunday 18 May), visit the Petrie Museum to make stitch-free lavender-scented bags with Clare Sams.

Lavender is a plant renowned for its calming properties. The scent can offer benefits for sleep and may help ease anxiety, calming the body. Whether a dried plant or as an oil, the scent has been used for centuries, continuing to do so to this day.

The colour lavender blue is present many of our objects, from amulets to furniture inlays and dishes, spanning collections from the 18th Dynasty to the Roman and Byzantine periods. The scent has also been found within the remains of funerary contexts.

Clare Sams is an arts practitioner and education specialist, who works with sustainable textiles. From early years art classes, university lecturing, teacher training in art education, plus crafts skills in lifelong learning. Her workshops are for all ages and all abilities.

Access

Access to the museum, and all public areas within it, is step-free. Further information can be found on the planning your visit page.

Finding us

The Museum is located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop three to five minutes away on Euston Road. See planning your visit.