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Forge a blade. Carve a handle. Sew a leather sheath. 1-3 November 10-5 pm each day You will start this three-day journey learning the intricacies of metal selection, heating techniques and blade shaping with Thomas Toogood, local Devonshire Blacksmith from Longdog Smithy. On day two you will work with Felix Kary to carve a handle for your blade from local hardwood and on the final day you will go to Tanner Bates to learn the art of leatherwork to make a sheath for your newly completed knife. Friday and Saturday’s workshops are based at the Cob Barn, Schumacher College, Dartington, while Sunday’s workshop will be held at Tanner Bates Leather School, Webbers Yard, Dartington. This amazing artisan course will guide you through the process of creating your own blade from scratch – you will craft your very own, totally unique handmade tool to add to your kit for years to come. Equipment and safety gear provided. #forge #forgedinfire #forge #fire #knifemaking #bladesmith #bladesmithing #bladeshow2019 #hammer #anvil #makers #makersgonnamake #craft #crafts #forgeablade #heritagecrafts
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Make magic. Your very own shopping/foraging basket in willow with Hilary Burns. People have been raving about this course and we have 1 place left! October 26 and 27 (two day course), 9.30-5pm each day Using willow from the Somerset levels, this is a great beginners’ introduction to basket weaving. You will make a small shopping basket, working through the techniques and stages of stake and strand round basketry in the English tradition (base, sides, border, handle). The focus will be developing a feel for the materials, learning good practices and hand positions and mastering the tools. Materials for the work will have been prepared in advance by grading, soaking and mellowing so that they are ready for you to use, but Hilary will show you the process using dry willow, so that you learn how to do this for yourself. #basket #basketry #heritagecrafts #contemporarycrafts #makersgonnamake #makersmovement #weave #willow #willowweaving #grocerybasket #youluckypeople #willowtree
This is lush. Making and drawing with botanical ink .One golden ticket left. Tuesday night class. 22 Oct. Four weeks. Flora is a natural dyer, grower, and forager. She explores the land through gathering wild dye plants, fungi, lichen, and algae, as well as growing plants to produce a variety of vibrant colours using non toxic plant based processes. She brings people together to share technical skills through which people can be creative, and enables the creation of handmade fabrics will be used and cherished, and repaired over time. In this course you will create ink from plants such as oak galls, camellia, blackberry, and try some explorative drawing on paper working with handmade inks. What will happen during the class? – We will look at which plants you can make ink from, where and how to harvest from these plants, and walk to find materials such as walnut husks and oak galls – You’ll learn how to process these materials in to inks using water and heat; what to add to give it a paint consistency – You’ll learn how to create modifiers from metals, acids, and alkalis – to expand the colour spectrum you can achieve and increase lightfastness – Explorative drawing with these inks, exploring their properties What skills will participants gain? – How to create your own inks from natural materials – How to recognise plants that will give interesting inks – An understanding of fixatives and modifiers #ink #botanical #fixatives #inkdrawing #inks #dye #drawing #naturalink #naturalinks @dartingtonhall @flora_arbuthnott