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Sharing traditional skills and offering the chance to have a go, and thereby keep them alive, is at at the forefront of the aims of the Weald & Downland Living Museum. Whether you want to learn Contents about working with wood or textiles, historic life, herbs or one of the other fascinating crafts and skills taught by experts in the Countryside crafts and skills 4 Museum’s inspiring surroundings, there is interest for all among Heavy horse courses 9 the 150 courses in this programme on offer throughout 2020. Herbal and gardens 11 Historic life 15 Historic trades 18 Research and buildings 21 Textiles 23 Working with wood 30 How to book: Write, draw, paint, print 35 All courses are now available to book online. Walks 40 Christmas 42 Alternatively you can email our Courses Team at [email protected] or call us on 01243 811021.
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Introduction to falconry Corn dolly workshop During this day you will gain a basic Take a fresh look at this ancient craft and Countryside understanding of birds of prey, their learn how to weave different corn dollies, training and care whilst providing a as well as finding out about the history hands-on experience holding and flying and evolution of this craft. 10am - 5pm falconry birds. Learn all about the nature Leader: Verna Bailey crafts and skills of the birds and the ancient art of Falconry. Sunday 17 May An enchanting personal encounter Sunday 30 August Use natural materials, such as rush and willow, to make with birds of prey. 10.30am - 4pm £55 beautiful baskets or other items and learn practical skills Leader: Paul and Mandy Manning in the outdoors, including falconry and scything. Saturday 25 April Saturday 6 June £80 Frame baskets Hedgelaying Willow platters Make a willow frame basket using Over the weekend you will learn Make a willow platter using mixed Somerset grown willow. Frame baskets how to cut and lay a stock-proof types of willow. These platters are ideal for gathering and storing eggs hedge, including thinning out and may be used for bread, biscuits, and picking soft fruit. 10am - 4pm selecting materials. 9.30am - 4pm. hot scones or fruit. 2pm - 4pm Leader: Linda Mills Leader: Phil Hart Leader: Linda Mills Tuesday 19 May Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February Saturday 14 March, £70 Tuesday 7 April £170 £35
Living willow chair Come along to this one-day Willow garden supports workshop and make a living willow Make interesting contemporary chair to take home and plant in plant supports to enhance your Dowsing day your own garden. 9.30am - 5pm garden using English willow and A day of discussion, practical traditional methods. 9.30am - 5pm demonstration, guidance and hands- Leaders: Ganesh Bruce Kings on experience that should convince and Elaine Kings Leaders: Ganesh Bruce Sunday 16 February Kings and Elaine Kings even the most sceptical of the value Saturday 21 March of this ancient craft. 10am - 4pm £120 £120 Leader: Pete Redman Sunday 26 April £65
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Scything: learn to mow Nettle fibre workshop: Weave a rush hat Weave Learn a brief history of the scythe, how to from sting to spin New An opportunity to make your own woven rush select the right blade and snath for the job Did you know you can make cordage, yarn rush hat using indigenous common tableware and set them up, peening, sharpening, the and cloth from our local nettles? Stinging bulrush (Scirpus Lacustris) collected from During the course, mowing technique, how to avoid damaging nettles have been used as a fibre plant the river Thames. Starting with your own each participant will the blade and how to care for the scythe. for textiles for over 3,000 years in the UK. custom-made hat block, you will be using have the opportunity to There will be hands-on sessions with the Nettles are of great interest again since this wonderfully supple material and explore different weaving chance to use the scythe in a couple of they one of most sustainable local fibres techniques common to basketry to create techniques and create their different environments. 9.30am - 4.30pm you can imagine. During the workshop a unique hat to wear. 9.30am - 5pm own beautiful table mats out of Leader: Mark Allery we will gather nettles and learn about Leader: Rachel Frost the wonderfully supple and colourful, Saturday 11 July their history. Nettles won’t sting after Monday 27 July native common bulrush. 9.30am - 5pm being harvested. You will learn how to £70 extract nettle fibre, and learn a simple way £75 Leader: Rachel Frost Thursday 30 July to spin it so it can be used for weaving, knitting or crochet. 10am - 4.30pm £75 Leader: Brigitte Kaltenbacher Weave a rush bag Sunday 5 July Create a bag of subtle colours and £75 beautiful texture from indigenous common bulrush (Scirpus Lacustris). Working on wooden blocks and using techniques common to basketry, you It was really will make a medium sized bag with optional handles. 9.30am - 5pm interesting and Gone from novice Leader: Rachel Frost Wild cordage Tuesday 28 July the teaching was Learn how to make wild cordage (string) to keen to learn £75 from a variety of seasonally available excellent. Weave a rush bag participant 2019 plants which we’ll forage for on the day. more. We’ll work with plants that need varying Scything course participant 2019 degrees of preparation before being used Weave a rush basket to make cordage. You’ll come away with Learn how to make a beautiful and a good understanding of the methods practical container from this wonderfully required to make cordages for various supple material. Over the course of the uses and from different types of fibres. day you will make your own woven rush A range of samples will inspire you on storage basket using indigenous common how to incorporate cordage into your bulrush (Scirpus Lacustris) harvested own craft projects. 10am - 4.30pm from the river Thames. 9.30am - 5pm Leader: Ruby Taylor Leader: Rachel Frost Friday 15 May Wednesday 29 July £90 £75
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Grass baskets Traditional coppice Spend a day making a small coiled basket management from grass. Learn about the types of Find out more about the history Heavy horse grasses that can be harvested and how to and practice of traditional coppice process these. You will make a basket that management. Most of the day is sturdy and perfect for storing eggs or will be spent outside with guided other similar-sized objects. After the day walks and practical sessions in the courses you will be looking at verges and lawns Museum’s woodland 10am - 4pm in a whole new light. 10am - 4.30pm Tutor: Jon Roberts Spend a practical day with the Museum’s heavy Leader: Ruby Taylor Saturday 14 November horse team and learn about care, logging, driving Friday 4 September £65 and ploughing using traditional draught breeds. £90 Care and management Driving heavy horses A practical outdoor day learning to We’re celebrating the skills of of heavy horses harness up and drive the Museum’s the many craftspeople who keep A mix of theory and practice using the draught horses in the field and on traditional crafts going in a special Museum’s team of heavy horses. An the track, chain harrowing and shaft Excellent. Delighted Historic Life weekend on 1-2 August. introduction to stable care, feeding, and pole work. 10am - 3.30pm Details can be found on our website harnessing and safe handling of with my basket. under the ‘What’s on’ page. draught horses. 10am - 3.30pm Leader: Andrew Robinson Grass baskets course participant 2019 Saturday 9 May Leader: Andrew Robinson Sunday 9 February Thursday 14 May Friday 6 March Sunday 7 June Bramble baskets Sunday 26 April Thursday 9 July Learn how to harvest and process £90 £90 bramble. We’ll cover a range of basketry techniques including how to start the basket, weave a strong structure, and make the border. By the end of the Horse logging course you’ll all the knowledge you For those with some heavy horse need to make a bramble basket from experience. A day working with It was a great start to finish and will see brambles in heavy horses extracting timber from a whole new light. 10am - 4.30pm local woods. Participants must be experience. physically fit. 10am - 3.30pm Driving heavy horses participant 2019 Leader: Ruby Taylor Saturday 26 September Leaders: Robert Sampson and Andrew Robinson £90 Sunday 29 March £90
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You can see the latest availability for all courses online. If a course you are interested in is full, please Herbal do contact us on 01243 811021 or email [email protected]. We keep a waiting list and will let you know immediately if there and gardens are cancellations. Also we add in repeat courses when possible. Inspired by the Museum gardens, learn about the uses of herbs, herb knowledge at different eras and more about these versatile plants. Ploughing with heavy horses Covering the basics of ploughing including preparing the harness and the plough for Beekeeping for beginners Anglo-Saxon herbs work in the field. Beginners and improvers On this introductory day, you will have The Anglo-Saxons had names for equally welcome. 10.30am - 3.30pm the opportunity to learn about types nearly 400 different herbs. Many we of bees and how they live, and are familiar with in our daily life today, Leaders: John McDermott, Robert bee-friendly flowers. You will see different others less so. Through some recipes Sampson and Andrew Robinson Sunday 1 November types of beehives and their component with many ingredients, others requiring Saturday 14 November parts and discuss where you can (and charms or prayers, a few involving diet, can’t) keep bees. There will be an we will be exploring the Anglo-Saxon £90 introduction to honey bee management views on health, sickness and treating and the beekeeping year, including the a variety of ailments. 9.30am - 4.30pm issues of swarming, pests and diseases Leader: Christina Stapley as well as the honey crop and other Friday 8 May Find out about working with heavy hive products. 10.30am - 4.30pm horses from our Historic Life £70 weekend on 4-5 July and at the end Leader: Christine Stevens of the harvest, during our Autumn Sunday 16 February Countryside show on 3-4 October. £50 Secrets of the Stillroom The hub of large houses over the centuries, from Tudor to late Georgian periods, was the stillroom. This day seeks to give a fragrant experience of the tastes, scents and textures from the stillroom across the centuries. 9.30am - 4.30pm Leader: Christina Stapley Saturday 9 May £70
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Herbs for health Herbs in wartime The craft garden New Alchemy and the The origins of the herbaceous border (WWI & WWII) New All gardens large or small can chemistry of herbs lie in growing herbs for home remedies. Before 1914 Britain had been mainly provide materials for crafts. Some, As modern science gives us a deeper Led by a medical herbalist, this course dependent on medicinal plants supplied such as particular dyes, need to understanding of the relationships offers guidance on the most safe from abroad and were used in mainstream be grown deliberately. A list of between plants and their environment, and useful herbs to grow and how to medicine of the day. World War II saw useful plants will be featured. we look at the three principles making harvest and use or preserve them. This the situation repeated, although the use Opportunities on the day will be to use up each plant which correspond to the practical day focuses on instruction for of herbal drugs was less in hospitals by elegant leaves such as lemon scented alchemical terms mercury, sulphur and salt. the careful identification of individual then. Appeals to grow or wild-gather geranium, mints and jasmine for printing The day is not one of complex chemistry herbs and provides experience in herbs, important to the war efforts, were on silk or linen and dyeing embroidery but of herbs being presented in an entirely making a footbath, herbal honey syrups, answered by many and the stories of the threads with walnuts and commonly new way. It will be an exploration of herbal teas, an infused oil, a herb education, organisation and plain hard grown herbs. Time can also be given to natural history and the craft of herbalism pillow and more. 9.30am - 4.30pm work which went into providing what designing pictures or miniature gardens which also involves combining herbs Leader: Christina Stapley was necessary are the background to using dried herb flowers, seeds and seed- for greater effect. Rosemary, Hyssop, Sunday 10 May a day looking both at herbs providing heads. This will be a day to relax and enjoy Oregano, Motherwort, White Dead Nettle, drugs such as foxglove, belladonna, the therapeutic benefits of appreciating Marshmallow and Burdock are some of the £70 henbane, and opium poppies as well as beauty in simple crafts. 9.30am - 4.30pm herbs in plant alchemy. We will look at the valerian, yarrow and others. Recipes will Leader: Christina Stapley preparation of aromatic waters, essences, concentrate on treating wounds, pain, Thursday 18 June tinctures and elixirs. 9.30am - 4.30pm anxiety and shock. 9.30am - 4.30pm From honey and beeswax £70 Leader: Christina Stapley to cosmetics and soap Leader: Christina Stapley Friday 18 September, Using simple natural ingredients, learn Wednesday 17 June £70 how to make cosmetics including £70 the tutor’s award-winning honey soap, beeswax moisture cream and a healing ointment. You will go home with recipe sheets and the products HeDe you have made. 9.30am - 4.30pm Leader: Sara Robb Sunday 10 May £75
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Autumn remedies New Herbal knowledge and a celebration Autumn offers a precious, satisfying of our historic gardens is the focus opportunity to harvest roots, berries and of two new Historic Life weekends Historic life fruits. With these we will be making a on Wildflowers on 6-7 June and variety of remedies and treats for the Herbal Heritage on 20-21 June. Elements of everyday life in the past, from food and store-cupboard ready to support health Details can be found on our website drink to products around the home, language and more. and lift the mood when winter arrives. under the ‘What’s on’ page. Recipes will range from medicinal wine and liqueur, through cough sweets to The history of soap Everyday life in Tindalls using fixatives for soothing pot-pourri History of soap: from earliest evidence Cottage New made with the already preserved scents to craft revival, we look at how soap Gain an insight into life in the mid- of the summer garden in dried herbs. developed and make hot processed Georgian period. Tindalls has been Looking towards Christmas there will be soft soap, pure olive Castile soap and furnished circa 1760 and has a working confections to enjoy just as they are, or Tudor-inspired herb washballs to take oven and brewhouse. We will investigate wrapped in chocolate. Roots to harvest away. This day has both an in-depth talk changes in the home from the previous will be Elecampane, Sweet Cicely, Orris, and hands-on elements to provide a century; cook a meal using the brick Marshmallow, Calamus and Soapwort. thorough working knowledge of the history oven, open hearth and copper; look at Berries will include haw and juniper. and practicality of soapmaking. 10am - 4pm clothing of the period. 10am - 4pm Appreciating the bounty of the garden and countryside at this time will be the Leader: Sally Pointer Leader: Marc Meltonville order of the day. 9.30am - 4.30pm Friday 28 February Saturday 16 May Saturday 29 February Leader: Christina Stapley £70 Saturday 19 September £75 £70 Make a medieval The history of cosmetics long stitch book and perfumes On this course you will learn how to make From prehistoric evidence to early a medieval long stitch book in leather twentieth century, we take a practical, in- with linen thread using techniques that depth look at how cosmetics and perfumes have not changed in 400 years. You developed and make pomander beads will have a fully functional notebook and lip paints to take away. 10am - 4pm complete with wrap around tie by the Leader: Sally Pointer end of the course. 10.30am - 3.30pm Sunday 1 March Leader: Marysa de Veer £75 Sunday 28 June £70
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Exploring the English Introduction to Old Cider making day Wild food language through time English language If you are tired of wasting spare apples, This course This workshop considers the development An overview of the Old English then turn them into a treat that was the is aimed as an of the English language from Old English, (Anglo-Saxon) language; historical traditional drink of Britain for nearly introduction to the via Middle English through to Early background material, writing and 1000 years. Join us for this one-day world of wild food, Modern English by exploring selected spelling and some simple texts and practical cider making course to learn focusing specifically on the works from each of these time periods. prose narratives. 10am - 4.30pm how to make your own delicious cider plants and trees although we Our linguistic and cultural journey will and apple juice at home. You can even won’t ignore fungi should we Leader: Stephen Pollington bring your own apples or pears and manage to find any. We will also include selected texts by Chaucer and Friday 17 July Shakespeare amongst others, as well create a delicious drink from your home- explore their myriad of other uses as a detailed analysis of parts of the Old £85 grown produce. 9.30am - 4.30pm such as providing cures for ailments, English poem Beowulf. 10am - 4.30pm Leader: Simon Reed refreshing drinks, or maybe something to Sunday 13 September clean your teeth with! The day consists Leader: Catherine Watts of a non-strenuous walk to identify Wednesday 8 July Shooting the traditional £105 and gather edible species followed £70 longbow by a late lunch and a chance to taste An introduction to the art and craft the wild foods gathered. 9am - 4pm of longbow archery. The day focuses on the history and traditions of this Leader: John Rhyder Sunday 20 September remarkable weapon, including intensive tuition in the practice of longbow £80 archery, using a range of different bows. Suitable for the beginner and more experienced archer alike. 10am - 5pm Leader: Jonathan Davies Throughout 2020 we have a Saturday 25 July series of Historic Life weekends. Sunday 26 July Two specifically relate to food, with brewing on 7-8 March £60 and baking on 21-22 March. Tudor baking Three more relate to experiences Dairying New Experience a baking day in a Tudor around daily life: Stories on 18-19 A session based on the newly finished yeoman’s kitchen. Make and bake a January, Music on 17-18 October Eastwick Park Dairy at the Museum. A variety of breads eaten in the sixteenth and Fire and Light on 7-8 November. hands-on session in the basics of making century. Try different cooking methods butter and a soft cheese. 11am - 2pm and discover the importance of bread to Details can be found on our website the Tudor diet and economy. 10am - 4pm under the ‘What’s on’ page. Leader: Marc Meltonville Saturday 11 July Leader: Jon Roberts Wednesday 16 September £45 £65
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Mill experience Make a hand-sewn book Spend the morning in our 400-year-old During this workshop you will make a non- Historic trades watermill. Learn about its history, the adhesive book by sewing folded sections different types of mills and their common of paper in a variety of weights, then Experience working with metal, leather, stone or other features. Learn how the watermill works, marking, piercing and using cotton thread materials and learn techniques and produce artefacts the key controls at the millers’ disposal, to sew onto linen tape or ribbon using which would have been essential to our ancestors. and how they can affect the quality of the the French stitch method. The covers will flour produced. Then have a go at working be made from colourful handmade paper in the mill and produce a small bag of with tape or ribbon as a decorative means Leather belt Stone carving: ammonite flour to take home. 9.30am - 12.30pm of securing the book. 9.30am - 4.30pm Make a unique leather belt from This workshop is for beginners who wish Leaders: Museum millers Leader: Angela Thames English vegetable tanned leather using to develop skills in stone carving. You will Saturday 4 April Sunday 5 April various techniques and finishes with a work on a design in Bath stone and find Sunday 20 September Sunday 11 October £65 choice of buckles. 9.30am - 4.30pm out where to purchase different stones £45 Leader: Jon Lewington and tools, plus chisel sharpening and Saturday 15 February carving stone safely. 9.30am - 5pm Bronze axe casting £65 Leader: Will Spankie The course begins with a short Sunday 1 March Leather pouch workshop introductory talk and handling session £90 Make a leather belt pouch from English of replica tools and materials used in vegetable tanned leather with a the Bronze Age. Students will prepare Letter carving in stone choice of fittings, for use in bushcraft, moulds and begin working the furnace For the beginners one-day letter cutting re-enactment, gardening or just to melt copper and tin. They will then course you will learn how to carve your Leaded light stained glass walking the dog! 9.30am - 4.30pm cast their own replica early Bronze Age own monogram or house number in Make a small leaded stained glass axe head, after which they can clean stone using hand tools. Students will panel, and learn many skills including Leader: Jon Lewington Saturday 4 April and decorate. 9.30am - 4.30pm be shown how to draw out their own how to cut glass to a precise pattern designs on paper, transfer them onto and join pieces using lead cames. £70 Leader: James Dilley the stone and carve them into the stone Suitable for beginners or those with Sunday 14 June using a hammer and chisel. We will also some experience. 10am - 4pm £90 look at different finishing techniques for Leader: David Lilly Medieval tile making the lettering and stone. 9.30am – 5pm Saturday 4 April A practical day with the opportunity to Leader: Will Spankie £120 design your own tiles, or use pre-made Saturday 29 February patterns, with information on historical £90 aspects of the craft. Each participant can choose four tiles to be fired and sent to them after the course. 9.30am - 5pm Leader: Karen Slade Saturday 16 May £130
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Flint tool knapping Bronze An introduction to the skill of flint dagger casting knapping. You will go through the workshop Research techniques and the aim of the After an introductory day is for everyone to be able talk and chance to look at to go away and replicate what replica tools and materials, they have learnt. 10am - 4pm you will prepare the moulds and and buildings Leader: James Dilley begin working the furnace to cast Sunday 12 July the Bronze Age inspired daggers. Understanding the evidence, through documents and £65 At the end of the day the cleaning of exploring buildings, explained by expert course leaders the cast items begins. Advice will be given on how to fit a wooden handle and historical researchers. to the blade. 9.30am - 4.30pm Leader: James Dilley Deciphering old documents Elizabethan Sussex Saturday 22 August Spend a day focusing on Tudor and This day course gives a feel to what it Very inspirational £90 Stuart documents. This workshop helps was like to live in Sussex five hundred beginners, and those with a small amount years ago. We will talk about the great and fascinating. of knowledge, to read 16th and 17th houses, and the people who lived in Flint knapping course participant 2019 century handwriting, and is helpful for later them, and what that was like. We will Stone carving: Tudor Rose palaeography as well. It is useful for family look at the landscape around them, what Copper smelting and bronze A two-day workshop teaching participants and local historians. The course takes you the towns were like, and the trade and axe casting weekend how to mark out, rough out and finish a through wills, inventories, registers, deeds economy that supported them. We Tudor Rose design in Bath stone. The and even the mystery of the suet pudding will do this by looking at copies of The course begins with a short course will also cover carving techniques, in a Quarter Sessions case. 10am - 4pm original documents to support introductory talk and handling session sharpening and where to buy tools the information. 10am - 4pm of replica tools and materials used in and stone. By the end of the two days Leader: Caroline Adams the Bronze Age. Students will prepare participants will be able to take away Saturday 27 June Leader: Caroline Adams Sunday 27 September crucibles, crush copper ore and charcoal a finished carving. 9.30am - 5pm £60 before working the bellows to produce £60 a lump of pure copper. On the second Leader: Will Spankie Saturday 31 October – day students will prepare moulds and Sunday 1 November begin working the furnace to melt copper and tin. They will then cast their £160 own replica early Bronze Age axe head, and they can then begin cleaning and decorating their axe. 9.30am - 4.30pm Leader: James Dilley Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 August £180
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Chichester in the century of Exploring the Civil War (1600-1700) New history of a house: Political and religious upheavals made an introduction Textiles the 17th century one of the most This day course looks at the dramatic periods in Britain’s history. The documentary evidence for the history From wool and flax to beautiful creations. Develop your handcraft impact at the local level was severe: in of houses, with an emphasis on what skills, learn to reuse material or enjoy a day of sewing or knitting. Chichester’s case this led to a damaging it can tell us about their social history. siege in 1642, and then the long agony It will introduce participants to the of the Civil War, followed by plots and sources and to some of the ways in Clothing the Poor in Spinning: drop spindle rumours of plots almost to the end of which you can explore the history of the 17th-Century Sussex and the wheel the century. This day course will consist development of your house, find out This day focuses on the clothing of poor On the first day you will learn about of a morning of talks, based on new about who was there before you, and how men, women and children living in 17th- fleeces and carding wool ready for research, followed by a guided walk they may have lived. 10am - 4.30pm century Sussex, including those living spinning, before trying your hand at round the city in the afternoon, looking in the poorest households who were spinning with the drop spindle. The at sites and buildings connected with Leader: Ian Friel Sunday 18 October dependent upon parish welfare to get by. second day concentrates on working with the 1642 siege, the post-Civil War We will look at the amount and variety of the wheel, whilst giving some background revival and ending at the Cathedral - a £65 clothing owned by the poor and how they to this traditional craft. 10am - 4pm place plundered by the soldiers of the acquired it (e.g. ready-made, second hand) Parliamentarian army. 10am - 4.30pm Leader: Steve Kennett and at what poor men and women thought Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February Leader: Ian Friel about their own clothes. Participants Saturday 24 – Sunday 25 October Saturday 26 September will have the opportunity to examine replica 17th-century clothing produced £100 £65 as part of the Museum’s Historic Clothing Project and we will also visit Poplar Cottage to learn about the practicalities Look out in early 2020 for talks of clothes maintenance, including around the time of the Museum’s laundering and storage. 1pm - 4.30pm 50th birthday in September Leader: Danae Tankard 2020 and the Historic Life Sunday 17 May weekend on 5-6 September, the £40 anniversary of the opening day.
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Tapestry workshop: Stumpwork: weave a landscape butterflies Courses calendar 2020 Using a simple frame loom, which you Make a stunning three- can keep, and a variety of yarns, you will dimensional butterfly, Leather belt Introduction to crochet create a woven landscape wall hanging. using wire-work techniques January Saturday 15 February Sunday 8 March The emphasis will be on colour blending together with organza fabrics Living willow chair Sussex trug making workshop and both traditional and 3D techniques and metallic threads to create Introduction to green woodworking Sunday 16 February Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 March will be used during the day. No experience delicately patterned wings. Learn to Saturday 11 January of weaving is needed. 10am - 4pm combine traditional stumpwork techniques Beekeeping for beginners Willow garden supports with the use of modern materials and Introduction to green woodworking Leader: Hilary Charlesworth Sunday 12 January Sunday 16 February Saturday 21 March Saturday 8 February methods. The course will provide all the materials required plus a choice of Traditional English longbow The history of soap Nalbinding £65 threads and beads. 9.30am - 4pm Friday 17 – Sunday 19 January Friday 28 February Saturday 28 March Leader: Caroline Vincent Saturday 15 February Make a woven top stool The history of soap Peg loom weaving Victorian patchwork Saturday 25 – Sunday Saturday 29 February Saturday 28 March £65 26 January An opportunity to try out Victorian Crazy Tatting workshop Spoon carving: Beginners Patchwork, a favourite technique of the Saturday 29 February time. We will make traditional pincushions Saturday 28 March or needle-keeps. This technique February Letter carving in stone Spoon carving: Advanced provides a showcase for carefully Woodcarving weekend Saturday 29 February Sunday 29 March hoarded scraps of favourite fabrics, Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February offering the maker the chance to let their Dyeing with Madder New imagination run riot with embroidered Spinning: drop spindle March Sunday 29 March decoration and beads. 10.30am - 4pm and the wheel Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February Stone carving: ammonite Horse logging Leader: Charlotte Dawber Sunday 1 March Saturday 8 February Hedgelaying Sunday 29 March £65 Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February The history of cosmetics and perfumes Tapestry workshop: Sunday 1 March April weave a landscape Saturday 8 February Care and management Leaded light stained glass of heavy horses Saturday 4 April Victorian patchwork Friday 6 March Saturday 8 February Mill experience Make a felt hat Saturday 4 April Care and management Saturday 7 March of heavy horses Leather pouch workshop Sunday 9 February Saturday 4 April
Stumpwork: butterflies Make a hand-sewn book Saturday 15 February Sunday 5 April
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Willow platters Herbs for Health Wild cordage Deciphering old documents Make a folding table Tuesday 7 April Sunday 10 May Friday 22 May Saturday 27 June Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 July September
Woodcut printing From honey and beeswax Rogation Sunday “Beating Make a medieval long stitch book Shooting the traditional longbow Grass baskets Thursday 23 April to cosmetics and soap the Bounds” walk Sunday 28 June Sunday 26 July Friday 4 September Sunday 10 May Sunday 24 May Make a shave horse Weave a rush hat Calligraphy: Copperplate Introduction to knitting script New Friday 24 April July Monday 27 July Wednesday 13 May June Friday 11 September Introduction to falconry Nettle fibre workshop: from Weave a rush bag Gate hurdle making day Wood block textiles printing sting to spin Spinning flax Saturday 25 April New New Tuesday 28 July Wednesday 13 May Thursday 4 June Sunday 5 July Saturday 12 September Introduction to pole lathe turning Weave a rush basket Driving heavy horses Introduction to falconry Exploring the English A history of knitting from the Saturday 25 April Wednesday 29 July Thursday 14 May Saturday 6 June Language through Time Tudor period onwards Wednesday 8 July Sunday 13 September Introduction to pole lathe turning Weave rush tableware Bark basketry Driving heavy horses Sunday 26 April Thursday 30 July Monday 8 June Sunday 7 June Driving heavy horses Dorset button bracelet Thursday 9 July Sunday 13 September Dowsing day Museums at night Introduction to signwriting Sunday 26 April Friday 15 May Tuesday 9 June Calligraphy: Italic script August Cider making day Friday 10 July Saturday 13 September Care and management William Cobbett walk of heavy horses Museums at night Natural dyes Sunday 2 August Scything: learn to mow Tudor baking Sunday 26 April Saturday 16 May Saturday 13 June Wednesday 16 September Saturday 11 July Copper smelting and bronze Calligraphy for beginners: Bronze axe casting axe casting weekend Uncial script Sunday 14 June Dairying NEW Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 August Alchemy and the Chemistry of Herbs May Saturday 16 May Saturday 11 July Friday 18 September Natural navigation walk Drawing buildings in pen and ink Bat walk Everyday life in Tindalls Flint knapping Autumn Remedies Friday 1 May Tuesday 16 June Friday 21 August New Cottage New Sunday 12 July Saturday 19 September Saturday 16 May Make a Shaker box Herbs in wartime (WWI & WWII) Bronze dagger casting workshop Inspired by the Museum: Inkle loom weaving Wednesday 6 May Wednesday 17 June Saturday 22 August Medieval tile making watercolour day Saturday 19 – Sunday Saturday 16 May Tuesday 14 July 20 September Anglo-Saxon Herbs The craft garden NEW Letter carving in wood New Friday 8 May Thursday 18 June Saturday 29 – Sunday Wild food Corn dolly workshop Introduction to old English language 30 August Sunday 17 May Friday 17 July Sunday 20 September Dawn walk Botanical illustration: Wild flowers of the Herbals Corn dolly workshop Saturday 9 May New Mill experience Frame baskets Monday 22 June Introduction to chair making – Sunday 30 August Tuesday 19 May make a three legged stool Sunday 20 September Secrets of the Stillroom Saturday 18 July Sussex chair course Saturday 9 May New Inspired by the Museum: Acrylics Inspired by the Museum: Wednesday 24 – sketching day Sunday 28 June Shooting the traditional longbow Tuesday 22 September Driving heavy horses Wednesday 20 May Saturday 25 July Saturday 9 May
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Botanical illustration: A Exploring the history of a Ploughing with heavy horses blaze of autumn colour house: an introduction Saturday 14 November Tatting workshop Introduction to crochet Wednesday 23 September Sunday 18 October Tatting is a form of lace making, using Join a short relaxed session to learn Sussex trug making workshop a shuttle to form knots, rather than the some basic crochet stitches. 10am - 4pm Chichester in the century Inspired by the Museum: Saturday 14 – Sunday traditional lace makers’ pillows and of Civil War New Historic clothing day New 15 November Leader: Rose Savage bobbins. It is thought to have derived Sunday 8 March Saturday 26 September Tuesday 20 October from the knots that sailors used on their Illuminated lettering thick warps, and these were quickly £55 Bramble baskets Tunisian crochet NEW Sunday 15 November adapted by the lacemakers, using fine Saturday 26 September Saturday 24 October cotton, to provide edgings for garments, Christmas corn dollies making the garment trade more lucrative Spoon carving: Advanced Spinning: drop spindle Tuesday 24 November Saturday 26 September and the wheel because of the beautiful decorations. Saturday 24 – Sunday Willow Christmas trees During the course you will learn the basic 25 October Coracle making weekend Saturday 28 November stitches, and how to make rings and Saturday 26 – Sunday joining chains, then work from a pattern Creative Crewelwork 27 September Stained glass Christmas making a small motif. 10am - 4pm Sunday 25 October decorations Leader: Rose Savage Spoon carving: Beginners Sunday 29 November Sunday 27 September Museums at night Saturday 29 February Friday 30 October Weave a Christmas Tree £55 Elizabethan Sussex Sunday 29 November Sunday 27 September Museums at night Saturday 31 October December Make a felt hat Quilted Christmas You will be using prepared fleece to October pincushion New Make a needle felt robin New produce your own original hat. The Saturday 31 October Medieval printmaking Saturday 5 December process includes the use of water Friday 2 October Stone carving: green man and soap, and a certain degree of physical effort! 10am - 4pm Natural navigation walk Saturday 31 October – Sunday 1 November Friday 2 October Leader: Hilary Charlesworth Gift vouchers Saturday 7 March Why not give the gift Design your own Fairisle £65 pattern New November of a courses voucher? Saturday 10 October Vouchers make a Ploughing with heavy horses perfect present at Introduction to Fairisle Sunday 1 November any time of the year knitting New and are available in Sunday 11 October Print your own woodcut denominations of £5, Christmas cards £10, £20 and £50. Mill experience Wednesday 11 November They can be used Sunday 11 October as whole or part Print your own woodcut payment towards any Christmas cards courses. To purchase Traditional wooden rake making Thursday 12 November vouchers please Saturday 17 October phone 01243 811021.
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Nalbinding Natural dyes Nalbinding is a method of manipulating Take part in a loops of yarn with a needle to create hands-on day using three dimensional or flat textiles. It has common plants, including its origins in prehistory and became those from the Museum increasingly popular in Early Medieval site, to dye wool. We will take societies. From Mesolithic examples a look at where some of the to Egyptian or Viking socks in wool, plants grow in the historic gardens this course will explore the history and at the Museum and explore how the develop a working knowledge of several dyes are prepared. 10am - 4pm key stitches to allow each participant to Dyeing with Madder New Introduction to knitting Take an in depth look at dyeing with A day for beginners to learn some basics Leader: Fiona Hargreaves fashion a personalised nalbinding needle, Saturday 13 June take home sample swatches and the Madder and discover a range of reds, of knitting, including how to cast on and start of a larger project. 10am – 4pm. orange and pink dyes all from one cast off, knit and purl rows of knitting £65 dyebath. We’ll compare dyebaths made and increase and decrease stitches. Leader: Sally Pointer with chopped roots and prepared extract You will discuss the next steps and how Saturday 28 March and build up a sample book of swatches to read a simple pattern. 10am - 4pm £70 in wool, cotton, silk and linen whilst Spinning flax Leader: Rachael Kay The course will consider the properties finding out more about the history of Wednesday 13 May this ancient dye and how to prepare a and history of flax as a textile fibre. We range of fibres for dyeing. 10am - 4pm £55 will dress distaffs and spin with spindles, Peg loom weaving but if you wish to bring a wheel please do Peg loom weaving is an easy way to Leader: Sally Pointer so. Everything you need will be provided, produce simple rugs and fabrics using Sunday 29 March and there will be distaffs and spindles to fleece, yarn or recycled materials. In £80 Wood block textiles buy. If you have your own spindle or flax this one-day workshop, you will make printing New strick that you want to work with please a wooden peg loom (which you can A hands-on day of using wooden blocks, feel free to bring them. There will be keep) and then learn how to put a warp and learn a method that is different from books and samples to look at and plenty on it and begin weaving. 10am - 4pm printing on paper; Ink pads, dabbers, of help and support. Some experience or brushes are used to apply inks - the Leaders: Hilary Charlesworth and of spinning is necessary. 10am - 4pm wood blocks are positioned onto the Sam St Clair-Ford Leader: Ruth Gilbert Saturday 28 March material, and pressure applied by hand, Saturday 12 September or by striking with a wooden mallet to £65 print repeat designs onto linen, calico, or £75 cotton. Also learn about the development of textile printing to Victorian times and William Morris. 9.30am – 4.30pm Leader: Will Dyke Thursday 4 June £70
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A history of knitting from Design your own Tunisian crochet New the Tudor period onwards Fairisle pattern New Learn the basics of Tunisian crochet, in a A brief practical history of knitting The first part of this course will involve a practical day with some information about in Britain, looking at the products, walk around the Weald & Downland Living the history of this form of crochet too. techniques, and social history of knitting Museum where we will photograph and For this course you should have a basic and knitters from the 16th to the 20th or sketch ideas, taking inspiration from knowledge of crochet, such as making century. We shall be learning to ‘knit in the colours and patterns seen in the local a chain and treble. 10am - 4pm the round’ and to use a knitting sheath, landscape and buildings. We will take Leader: Rose Savage and trying out a number of different this inspiration back to the classroom Saturday 24 October techniques. Pictures, samples and and create our own Weald & Downland items from the Knitting and Crochet Museum-inspired stranded colourwork £55 Guild Collection illustrate the wealth patterns. First we will convert our ideas into of resources. This is a course that repeatable patterns on graph paper, then we hope will inspire you to have the Inkle loom weaving weekend we will create swatches and experiment Creative Crewelwork confidence to raid the past in your future with colour, using naturally dyed, locally Spend a weekend learning about this Have fun creating your own design, knitting projects. Some previous knitting sourced Sussex yarn. By the end of the ancient weaving technique. Make short inspired by traditional crewelwork experience would be helpful on this day you will have a Museum-inspired lengths of braid and see examples patterns for stylised plant forms and course, but is not essential. 10am - 4pm swatch, ready to incorporate into a of different designs. 10am - 4 pm flowers. A range of motifs will be Leader: Ruth Gilbert knitted item of your choice. 10am - 4 pm available to use or further adapt, with Sunday 13 September Leader: Steve Kennett plenty of help on the day. Working with Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 September Leader: Rachael Kay £70 Saturday 10 October embroidery threads on natural linen, £140 learn to combine a number of decorative £65 stitches, together with silk-shading techniques. The course will provide fabric Dorset button bracelet New and a range of threads. 9.30 - 4pm Learn to make several different Introduction to Fairisle Leader: Caroline Vincent types of Dorset button, and how knitting New Sunday 25 October to sew them together to make a You will learn how to knit a simple egg cosy £65 beautiful bracelet. 10am - 4pm in two different colours. In this lesson you
Leader: Jen Best will learn to follow a knitting chart, have Sunday 13 September a go at working with one colour in each hand, along with other methods of handling You can see the latest availability £65 yarn without ending up in a tangled mess! for all courses online. If a course This workshop is for people with some you are interested in is full, please knitting experience, you need to be do contact us on 01243 811021 or confident knitting, purling, casting on and email [email protected]. off and working in the round. 11am - 3pm We keep a waiting list and will let Leader: Rachael Kay you know immediately if there Sunday 11 October are cancellations. Also we add in £65 repeat courses when possible.
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Woodcarving weekend From a choice of five, select a carving Working with wood project to complete on this two-day hands-on course. You will learn the Friendly, basics of woodcarving and take home Wood features significantly in the building material at the Museum, what you have made. 9.30am - 4pm inclusive and and also in the items within homes. Learn the skills of working with Leader: Sarah Goss informative. wood. (For timber building courses see our building conservation Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February courses programme) Spoon carving course participant 2019 £160
Introduction to green Make a woven top stool Sussex trug making workshop woodworking Learn all the skills required to assemble Spoon carving: Beginners Over the two days you will learn how to This course covers coppice woodlands, a stool frame from locally sourced Learn basic woodcarving skills from a make your own trug; you will be shown their management, history and uses. and prepared hardwood components. spoon carving expert and carve a version the process of cleaving and shaving Discussions on the products created Once assembled we will explore and of a spoon found on the Mary Rose, chestnut to produce the handle and rim from these and the skills required to turn experience how these were made, and using axe and knife. 10am - 4.30pm as well as being shown how to steam and into useful tools and items of everyday replicate all the necessary procedures. bend both chestnut and the willow for Day two will undertake the weaving Leader: JoJo Wood furniture. Experience the craft by making Saturday 28 March the boards of the trug. 9.30am - 4.30pm a mallet and a charcoal-maker’s stool and completing of this traditional Sunday 27 September Leaders: Robin Tuppen, Chris Tuppen using traditional tools. Students will use piece of furniture. 9am - 4pm £95 and Caleb Pimm drawhorse and drawknife in making Leader: Mervyn Mewis Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 March their items, and spend a little time on the Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 January Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November pole lathe if they wish. 9.30am - 4pm £150 £190 Leader: Mervyn Mewis Spoon carving: Advanced Saturday 11 January A day for those with some experience Sunday 12 January of spoon carving to take their skills £75 to the next level, to make a 17th Make a shave horse century inspired eating spoon with This day is for those keen to make decorated handle. 10am - 4.30pm a start in greenwood working with the construction of their own shave Traditional English longbow Leader: JoJo Wood horse. All materials will be provided Sunday 29 March Starting with a simple stave of timber you Saturday 26 September and you will spend the day making the will learn to shape a fully working bow component parts and then assembling based on the design of the great bow of £95 your own shave horse. 9.30am - 4pm. the Hundred Years War. 9.30am - 5pm Leader: Mark Allery Leader: John Rhyder Friday 24 April Friday 17 – Sunday 19 January £85 £275
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Introduction to pole Gate Sussex chair course New Make a folding table New lathe turning hurdle Spend a week making a traditional post Starting with sawn boards for the table An introduction to wood turning on the making day and rung chair. Get to grips with cleaving, top and materials for the leg structure, traditional pole lathe. A friendly and Learn how to make a shaving, steam bending and setting, then each student will design and create their informal course during which you will have basic sturdy traditional the lay-out and jointwork of the necessary own individual table. Styles and sizes will the opportunity to use traditional tools and Sweet Chestnut gate parts. This course is the ideal follow-on vary depending on the maker and the to turn simple objects. 9.30am - 4.30pm hurdle, to go around stock from any of the shorter similar courses in intended use and location of the table. No or in a gateway. 10am - 4pm the programme, but although that will be previous experience necessary, although Leader: Mark Allery helpful, it is not essential. 9.30am - 4.30pm attendance of other green wood working Saturday 25 Apri Leader: Julian Bell courses may be helpful. 9.30am - 4.30pm Sunday 26 April Wednesday 13 May Leader: Mervyn Mewis Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 June Leader: Mervyn Mewis £75 £65 £450 Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 July £210
Introduction to chair making We’ve had a – make a three legged stool Letter carving in wood New Learn all the skills used in traditional A chance to have a go at forming letters fantastic day. chair making in an intensive one-day and working on a project in this weekend course. Using locally sourced hardwood hands-on course. You will learn the basics Gate hurdle making course participant 2019 component parts each student assembles of letter carving in wood and take home and completes their own three legged what you have made. 9.30am - 4pm stool. While the jointwork is drying we Leader: Sarah Goss Make a Shaker box Bark basketry then go on to explore how each of Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 August Bark is a traditional material that has these parts were made, experiencing Learn how to make a beautiful oval £160 been used by people in many different and learning all the skills necessary to Shaker Box in a day and discover more countries. This day course will cover turn green (unseasoned) timber into about Shaker designs and communities. a variety of designs and uses for bark, beautiful furniture. 9.30am - 4.30pm No previous woodworking experience is including folded pouches or containers needed. You will be supported step by Leader: Mervyn Mewis and woven craft work. 9.30am - 4pm step through the box making process, Saturday 18 July learning traditional Shaker techniques Leader: John Rhyder £75 including bending wood in hot water, Monday 8 June crafting the iconic swallow tail joint £75 and securing bands and bases with tiny copper tacks and wooden pins, without using any glue. 9.30am - 5pm Leader: Murray Marks Wednesday 6 May £80
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Coracle making weekend Historic Life weekend: Wood – Coracles are traditional riverboats. crafts and uses is on Saturday Round in shape, they are paddled 23 – Bank Holiday Monday 25 Write, draw, with one oar. On this two-day course May. Details can be found on our you will make a traditional coracle website under the ‘What’s on’ page. and try out your boating skills on the Museum’s millpond. You will make a paint and print coracle covered in calico, and receive instructions for completing the final stage (waterproofing) at home. The finished Be inspired by the Museum, with courses in a variety of mediums coracle is quite large so please consider from beautiful lettering to printing or artwork. appropriate transport. 9.30am - 4.30pm Leaders: Kevin and Ellen Grimley Woodcut printing Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 September Learn woodcut printmaking; be inspired £260 by the museum, browse a selection of print illustrations, or bring ideas to create your own design. You will then transfer Traditional wooden this onto a woodblock, use tools to carve the image, after practising mark making rake making techniques, and handprint with inks onto Make a wooden rake and tailor its a selection of papers. 9.30am - 4.30pm size to your needs. You will make the rake head, fit the pegs and prepare Leader: Will Dyke Thursday 23 April and fit the handle. 9.30am - 4.30pm £70 Leader: Mark Allery Calligraphy for beginners: Saturday 17 October Uncial script £85 A day aimed at those who are new to calligraphy, this course will cover the basics of using a dip pen and ink and learning the letter forms of the Uncial script, which was used most between the 4th and 8th centuries across Europe, but is still popular with calligraphers today. After gaining familiarity with the basic shapes and rules of the letterforms, we will produce a short piece of text. 10am - 4pm Leader: Jan Mehigan Saturday 16 May £65
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Inspired by the Museum: Drawing buildings sketching day in pen and ink Calligraphy: Italic script Calligraphy: At this workshop we will take a careful Copperplate script Using pencil, pens, chalk and charcoal, be Learn the basic rules of New look at the Italic script to ensure that we inspired by the beautiful historic buildings perspective and learn to ‘sight- Copperplate is also known as English are doing it correctly. However, during and surroundings and learn to make measure’ with your pencil. You will Round Hand, developed from Italic in the the day we will relax and add a flourish quick, accurate and expressive sketches produce a few sketches of some of the 17th century. This beautiful script is written to the Italic letter form. This is one of the to capture the character of the structures buildings in the museum in pencil in the with a pointed nib and relies on the slant absolute delights of doing calligraphy. It is in the museum. You will be shown how to morning (outdoors or the inside room in of the letterform and pressure and release fun to do and a joy to see when executed make various marks to suggest form and one of the houses if the weather is poor). of the pen to create its graceful shapes. well. Spend a relaxing and enjoyable tone and how to create the textures of You will be shown how to make various At this workshop we will look carefully rest of the day learning how to write Italic brick, flint, wood, thatch and tiles. You will marks to suggest form and tone and how at the basic shapes of Copperplate, Script and even flourish your letters with also learn the basic rules of perspective to create the textures of brick, flint, wood, the constant angle at which it is written confidence. This script is suitable for cards and how to “sight-measure” with your thatch and tiles. In the afternoon you and the pressure and release that is and invitations, poetry and prose. Suitable pencil. Suitable for beginners and those may wish to add colour to your drawing required to write it. Copperplate is for beginners and improvers. 10am - 5pm with some experience. 10am - 4pm with a watercolour wash. 10am - 4pm an elegant, flourishing script which is Leader: Jan Mehigan most pleasant to write, beautiful to see Leader: Kate Tugwell Leader: Kate Tugwell Friday 10 July and lovely to use on greeting cards, Wednesday 20 May Tuesday 16 June invitations and scrolls. 10am - 4pm £65 £65 £65 Leader: Jan Mehigan Friday 11 September £65 Introduction to signwriting Botanical illustration: wild Inspired by the Museum: watercolour day A hands-on day to learn the basics flowers of the HerbalsNew Be inspired by the beautiful historic of freehand brush lettering and sign This is a wonderful opportunity to explore surroundings and spend a day learning writing. Students will paint their own and study wild flowers of the Herbals. to paint with watercolours. In the morning unique sign to take home. The course You will have the opportunity to learn you will explore vantage points in the is suitable for conservators, interior about, draw and paint some of the wild museum before making preparatory designers, artists, homeowners and those species growing in the gardens at the sketches. You may wish to start your wanting a new hobby. 9.30am - 5pm museum, when historically, wild flowers painting with a light pencil sketch or and herbs were used to treat many Leader: Wayne Osborne create a detailed drawing in pen before types of ailments. Enjoy creating realistic Tuesday 9 June applying a watercolour wash. After botanical illustrations by drawing and lunch a demonstration of watercolour £115 painting with precision and accuracy techniques will help you to complete with plenty of help and guidance from your painting. Suitable for beginners and your tutor. This course is suitable for all those with some experience. 10am - 4pm abilities and allows you the opportunity to work at your own pace with help and Leader: Kate Tugwell guidance from your tutor. 10am - 4pm Tuesday 14 July Leader: Leigh Ann Gale £65 Monday 22 June £60
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Inspired by the Inspired by the Museum: Museum: acrylics Historic clothing day New A crash course in painting the beautiful A workshop to really hone your drawing historic buildings of the museum using As a complete skills by sketching live models dressed the comparatively modern medium of in the historic clothing made at the acrylic paints. In the morning we will beginner it was Museum. We will use mostly chalk and look at different styles and methods of charcoal on coloured paper for short using acrylic paints with brushes and really informative sketches, and pencils or pastels for longer, palette knives before making preparatory detailed poses. You will be shown various sketches outdoors. After lunch you about various methods to help you break down the will have time to continue with your figure, how to “sight-measure” with your painting. Suitable for beginners and those techniques to pencil and how to use tone to create Progression routes in the Fine Arts with some experience. 10am - 4pm form. Suitable for beginners and those can be found with our neighbours try out. with some experience. 10am - 4pm at West Dean College. Please find Leader: Kate Tugwell Botanical illustration course participant 2019 up-to-date details of programmes Tuesday 22 September Leader: Kate Tugwell online: www.westdean.org.uk £65 Tuesday 20 October Medieval printmaking £65 Medieval England experienced a pivotal period in the development of printmaking Illuminated lettering Botanical illustration: – explore the materials, techniques, and Enjoy making your own decorated and A blaze of autumn colour illustration style of the times. Be inspired gilded capital letter, which can be used You can see the latest availability by the Museum’s exhibits, and browse a to enhance your calligraphy or to create This is a wonderful opportunity to for all courses online. If a course selection of historical illustrations, or bring a vibrant decorative letter, using line, explore and study nature’s colours in you are interested in is full, please your own ideas to design, carve, and colour and gold (the ‘real’ stuff or gold the autumn at the Museum. Discover do contact us on 01243 811021 or print your own woodblock, echoing gouache). You will be very busy on the the beautiful patterns and textures of email [email protected]. the practice of the medieval day and you may wish to research an a variety of foliage, fruits, berries, seed We keep a waiting list and will let printmaker. 9.30am - 4:30pm idea and bring your own exciting letter pods, hips and haws on this fascinating you know immediately if there design to the workshop or you can select one-day course. Enjoy creating realistic Leader: Will Dyke are cancellations. Also we add in from the designed resources that will be botanical illustrations by drawing and Friday 2 October repeat courses when possible. painting with precision and accuracy provided. Further letters can be drawn with plenty of help and guidance from £65 with a pencil or created with a pen and your tutor. This course is suitable for all illuminated and painted. 10am - 5pm abilities and allows you the opportunity Leader: Jan Mehigan to work at your own pace with help and Sunday 15 November guidance from your tutor. 10am - 4pm £65 Leader: Leigh Ann Gale Wednesday 23 September £60
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Rogation Sunday Bat walk “Beating the Bounds” Join our guided bat walk, where bat Walks Rogation Sunday was the day when the detectors will be used to identify different local clergyman led his parishioners types of bat that live around the Museum Enjoy new insights into the Museum’s downland site and round the parish boundary to “Beat the site, and maybe spot a few! A wonderful Bounds”. Starting at 2pm we will walk opportunity to learn about these beautiful surrounding area with these guided nature walks and special round the boundary of the Museum – a and fascinating creatures. Starts at 7:30pm storytelling events. walk of about 2 miles, stopping to take in and finishes about 9pm with hot drinks. the views and interesting places around Leader: Martyn Phillis rarely-explored parts of the site, finishing Friday 21 August Natural navigation Museums at night with tea and a talk about the founding Learn the practical basics of natural These enchanting walks offer a truly out of the Museum 40 years ago. 2 - 4pm £12 navigation around the Museum of the ordinary experience – you will be site. Starts at 2pm and finishes guided by lamplight to different spaces Leader: Richard Pailthorpe Sunday 24 May c. 4pm with tea and cake. around the Museum, to hear a series of £15 Leader: Tristan Gooley short night-time stories. Some will be Friday 1 May amusing, some mysterious and some Friday 2 October downright odd. Some are definitely not the stuff to ensure sweet dreams. Each £25 story has a historical root, as truth is far William Cobbett walk stranger than fiction. May has a theme William Cobbett took one of his famous of amazing animals, November’s theme “Rural Rides” through East Dean to Dawn walk is tales of the unexpected. At the end of Singleton on 2nd August 1823, and the evening, gather around an open fire admired what he saw on the way. Guided walk through local woodland for a spiced warm drink and a biscuit. Starting at 2pm we will walk the same to hear the dawn chorus. Learn to route – about 4 miles – ending up at identify woodland birds by song and Leaders: Museum storytellers the Museum for tea and a short talk call. Starts at 4.30am and finishes and guides. about William Cobbett. 2 - 4pm with full breakfast at the Museum. Friday 15 May, 8.45pm - c.10.45pm Leader: Richard Pailthorpe Leader: Jonathan Mycock Saturday 16 May, 8.45pm - c.10.45pm Sunday 2 August Saturday 9 May Friday 30 October, 6.45pm - c.9pm Saturday 31 October, 6.45pm - c.9pm £15 £20 £25
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Willow Christmas trees Make a needle felt robin New Make a small Christmas tree using In this workshop you will be guided Christmas courses assorted willow, the perfect tree for a through the basics of needle felting small windowsill or table. 9.30am - 4pm and make a robin to take home. Pre-Christmas crafts courses will enable you to make hand-make Leader: Linda Mills Suitable for beginners and those with traditional decorations and cards to enhance your home or as gifts. Saturday 28 November some experience. 10am - 4pm £60 Leader: Hilary Charlesworth Saturday 5 December Quilted Christmas Christmas corn dollies £65 pincushion New The workshop will impart the history Create an heirloom decoration for and development of this ancient craft, Stained glass Christmas the festive season. These patchwork as well as the practical skills involved in decorations pieces were favourite in Victorian weaving corn dollies. With the festive Make small copper-foiled stained glass homes, and is a beautiful way to season in sight, participants will have light catchers, and learn many skills Gift vouchers showcase carefully hoarded scraps the opportunity to create a range of including how to cut glass to a precise Why not give the gift of a courses of favourite fabrics. 10am - 4pm Christmas-themed corn dollies or idols. pattern, grind glass edges and join pieces voucher? Vouchers make a They will learn about them used, how to using copper foil. Suitable for beginners or perfect present at any time of Leader: Charlotte Dawber prepare the materials and learn a range those with some experience. 10am - 4pm Saturday 31 October the year and are available in of weaving techniques. 10am - 4pm Leader: David Lilly denominations of £5, £10, £20 £55 Leader: Verna Bailey Sunday 29 November and £50. They can be used as Tuesday 24 November £100 whole or part payment towards £55 any courses. To purchase vouchers Print your own woodcut please phone 01243 811021. Christmas cards Using the Museum as inspiration, learn Weave a Christmas Tree to design an image and transfer it onto a Spend a relaxing day working with textiles Please look online or in woodblock, using wood cutting tools to to weave a Christmas tree, as a decoration for your home or as a gift. 10am - 4pm our family programme carve the image, and practise mark making for information about techniques. You will then print your own Leader: Hilary Charlesworth woodblock to produce ten Christmas Sunday 29 November intergenerational workshops cards. Afterwards you can take your £55 woodblock away with you so that you can print more at home. 9.30am - 4.30pm You can see the latest availability for all courses online. If a course Leader: Will Dyke Wednesday 11 November you are interested in is full, please Thursday 12 November do contact us on 01243 811021 or email [email protected]. £65 We keep a waiting list and will let you know immediately if there are cancellations. Also we add in repeat courses when possible.
42 Book online: www.wealddown.co.uk/courses | 01243 811021 | [email protected] Book online: www.wealddown.co.uk/courses | 01243 811021 | [email protected] 43 Set in 45 acres in the heart of the South Downs National Park, the Weald & Downland Living Museum has a collection of over fifty historic buildings which have been rescued from destruction, carefully restored and rebuilt. The buildings range from Anglo-Saxon to 1920s bakehouse and vividly demonstrate the homes, gardens and workplaces of the past. Visitors can also see traditional farming in action and heavy horses at work.
With education at the heart of our work we offer a stimulating and varied programme of courses with the very best researchers and craftspeople in their fields.
In addition to the courses in the leaflet the Museum provides:
Courses in historic buildings conservation Intergenerational craft courses An evening talk series ‘Tales of the Downs & beyond’ MSc programme in Building Conservation & Timber Building Conservation
Look out for programming relating to the Museum’s 50th anniversary in September 2020.
Weald & Downland Living Museum +44 (0)1243 811021 Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester [email protected] West Sussex PO18 0EU www.wealddown.co.uk/courses