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POLE LATHE WOOD TURNING13 October 2007
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An introduction to wood turning on the traditional pole lathes. Participants will be able to take home their own simple turned objects.
Tutor: Jonny Morris |
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Learn how to make a comfortable, natural
bentwood chair to take home, selecting your own new timber and using a minimum
of tools to facilitate the steaming process. Tutor: Nick Parker |
An half day session giving participants the opportunity to handle a variety of poultry species. Advice and guidance on retailing eggs. 10.30am - 3.30pm.
Tutor: David Bland
Course fee £45 includes coffee, tea and light lunch.
A practical day school encompassing good practice in coppicing; to make the best use of coppiced products with safe use of tools.
Tutors: Nick Parker and John Booker
Course fee £60 to include tea, coffee and packed lunch.
An introductory two day course for novices to learn the basic skills and make a traditional woven hazel sheep hurdle.
Tutor:
Nick Parker
Course fee £165 including lunch.
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A two-day course for people who want to take their basket making further, participants will make an oval basket with handles suitable as a small shopper or garden basket, etc. 9 am – 5 pm. Tutor: Deborah Albon |
Make a small copper foiled stained glass panel, and learn many skills including how to cut glass to a precise pattern, grind glass edges and joining pieces using copper foil. Students can work on a design they have brought with them, or ones provided by the tutor. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: David Lilly
Course fee:
£70
Through making either a belt or a wallet learn hand stitching and dyeing techniques. The belt will be plain, laced or stamped with a choice of buckles. The wallet will be decorated with your own unique carved design. 9.30am-4.30pm
Tutor: Emma Driscoll
Course fee:
£60
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Learn
the practicalities of making a continuous wattle fence using mature hazel
rods woven between upright supports. Advice on sources of materials, tools
needed etc. Tutor:
Bob Holman |
A market stick is a traditional type of stick for country walking, and also used by farmers to take to market. It is a good basic stick, suitable for beginners to make. 9.30am-5pm
Tutor: Charles Hutcheon
Course fee:
£65
Students will learn to thin out then lay selected material to form a stock proof hedge which is pleasing to the eye. Tips will be given for uses of the discarded material. 9.30am-4.30pm
Tutor: Nick Parker
Course fee:£130
Come and try your hand at the art of traditional rope work. Students will make a round clout mat and a sailor’s whisk brush during the day.
Tutor: Charlie Tyrell
Course fee £40
These workshops are for people who wish to develop skills in carving with Bath stone. Students on the one-day workshop will carve a leaf design, and on the two-day course there will be time to complete a Tudor rose. 9.30am-5pm
Tutor:
Will Spankie
Course fee: One day - £70
Two days - £140
Students will select their own material and using basic woodworking tools to make a unique table, which also complements the bentwood chair. 9.30am-4.30pm
Tutor: Nick Parker
Course fee:
£75
Learn traditional leaded light techniques to turn that dull obscured-glass window into a blaze of coloured light and brighten up any room in your home. No prior skills required and you don’t even have to be artistic, just good with your hands! Spend the day making a panel to take home and show off to your loved ones.
Tutor: David Lilly
Course fee: £90 to include materials
Coracles are traditional riverboats. Round in shape, they are paddled with one oar. On this two-day course you will make a traditional ash slatted coracle to take home, and try out your boating skills on the Museum’s millpond.
Tutor: Nick Parker
Course fee £200
Learn to make a useful addition to the beekeeper’s equipment from straw, and find out how skeps are used in beekeeping. A rustic feature to a cottage garden, even if it is not inhabited by bees!
Tutor: Carolyn Farley
Course fee £90
A practical day in the Museum’s 150 year old working smithy, learning about the traditional skills of the village blacksmith. Each student will make their own simple object to take home.
Tutor: Martin Fox
Course fee £65
A practical day exploring charcoal burning using both traditional and current methods, from selection of wood to lighting the kiln, to marketing the product.
Tutor: Paul Pinnnington and Jon Roberts
Course fee £50 including lunch
Explore the background and practise the ancient craft of dowsing.
Tutor:
Rosemary Hudson
Course fee £25 includes light lunch.
Post and wire, post and rail, close boarding and panel fencing techniques will all be explained and demonstrated on this course. 9.30am–4.30pm
Tutor: Nick Parker
Course fee:
£120
A day school to explore the feasibility and management of a smallholding with sheep and pigs. Feeding, housing, breeding, and regulations.
Tutor: David Bland
Course fee £65 includes coffee, tea and light lunch.
Gate hanging without the use of concrete. Learn how to dig a neat hole and secure a gate post with stones and soil and then hang a gate. 9.30am–4pm
Course fee: £60
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An
introduction to bee-keeping past and present. See inside a skep and a modern
hive, learn about their function and take part in driving bees to a new
hive. 10.30am-4pm
Tutor:
Carolyn Farley |
Learn how to identify seasonal wild foods, distinguish similar species and gain an understanding of the history and folk lore attached to the plants. Then take a guided walk around the museum to find plants and learn how to prepare a meal from them and other staples. 9.30am-4.30pm
Tutor: Ian Humphrey
Course fee:£65
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Learn the history and development of this ancient craft, as well as the
practical skills involved in weaving corn dollies. Tutor: Verna Bailey |
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Whether you are considering taking up falconry/hawking or would simply like to enjoy a day out that offers something completely different, this course is for you. A unique opportunity to:
Tutor:
Sally Buckland |
Find out about when and how to take off honey stores in autumn, reducing the structure of the hive and feeding to prepare the bee colony for the coming winter. A useful follow-on from beekeeping for beginners.
Tutor:
Heather Clover and Carolyn Farley
Course fee £40
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