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W Eald & Down Lan D O P En Air M U Seu M 2016 Courses in Traditional Rural Trades & & Crafts Trades Rural Traditional in Courses Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Air Open Downland & Weald Make your own stick for country walking Introduction to pole lathe turning A market stick is a traditional type of stick for country A chance to learn the basics of wood turning on the walking, and is also used by farmers to take to market. It is traditional pole lathe. Participants will have their own simple a good basic stick, suitable for beginners to make. turned objects to take home. 9.30am–4.30pm 10am–4.30pm Leader: Mark Allery Leader: Charles Hutcheon Friday 22 April £60 Saturday–Sunday 13–14 February £140 Saturday 23 April £60 Friday 2 September £60 Traditional English longbow Saturday 3 September £60 Learn to make a working bow, based on the great bow of the hundred years war. Starting from a single stave of Pole lathe turning : improve your green woodworking skills timber, you will make your bow and then learn to use it. This workshop is intended for those who would like to 9.30am–5pm improve their green woodworking and pole lathe turning Leader: John Rhyder skills. Anyone with some experience can benefit from this Friday–Sunday 26–28 February £260 day, including those who have attend the Introduction course Friday–Sunday 28–30 October £260 and would like to have another go! 9.30am–4.30pm Leader: Mark Allery Sunday 4 September £60 Working with wood with wood Working Sussex trug making workshop A unique chance to learn from skilled trug makers how to Make a shave horse cleave and shave chestnut for the handle; steam and bend This day is for those keen to make a start in greenwood chestnut and willow for the boards, and assemble a trug to working with the construction of their own shave horse. All take home and cherish. 9.30am–4.30pm materials will be provided and participants will spend the day Leaders: Robin Tuppen and Mike Church making the component parts and then assembling their own Saturday–Sunday 19–20 March £140 shave horse. 9.30am–4.30pm Saturday–Sunday 6–7 August £140 Leader: Mark Allery Sunday 24 April £85 [email protected] 01243 811021 Gypsy peg making NEW Carve a wooden bowl Learn to make traditional style Gypsy-style clothes pegs and Learn the basics of woodcarving with this hands-on course discuss the finer points of this traditional craft. 10am–4pm whilst carving a leaf-shaped bowl, which can be taken home at Leader: Peter Jameson the end of the day. 9am–5pm Saturday 30 April £50 Leaders: Jess Jay and John Vardon Saturday 9 July £65 Bark basketry Sunday 10 July £65 Bark is a traditional material that has been used across the globe and it is likely that our ancestors used this material in similar ways. The barks we have at our disposal are remarkable, when wet they become pliant but as they dry they essentially turn to wood making very robust and durable containers. This course will cover both weaving and folding techniques, and processing the raw material, you should go home with some nice examples of the craft. 9.30am–4pm Leader: John Rhyder Carve a wooden spoon Saturday 7 May £65 Develop basic woodworking skills by learning the steps to carve your own unique spoon. 9am–5pm Leader: Jon Roberts Sunday 7 August £50 Saturday 13 August £50 COURSES FOR GROUPS Tool sharpening: the cutting edge Many of the courses run at the Museum can be organised as This two-day course has been designed for students with little private bespoke days for groups. The courses are great for or no previous tool sharpening experience, who enjoy working with wood but have found difficulty achieving a satisfying unique get togethers with friends and for reunions as well as standard of work due to their lack of tool tuning and sharpening hen and stag parties. skills. During this course you will learn how to sharpen wood cutting tools to professional standards and select new or second For more information please contact -hand tools that are well engineered. 9.30am–5pm Diana Rowsell, Head of Learning, on 01243 811464. Leader: Philip Hodge Friday–Saturday 12–13 August £210 www.wealddown.co.uk Coracle making Introduction to chair making Coracles are traditional riverboats. Round in shape, they By making a three or four-legged stool, learn the basics of are paddled with one oar. On this two-day course you will chair making and woodworking. 9.30am–4.30pm make a traditional ash slatted coracle to take home, and try Leader: Mervyn Mewis out your boating skills on the millpond. 9.30am–4.30pm Saturday 5 November £75 Leaders: Kevin and Ellen Grimley Saturday–Sunday 3–4 September £250 Make a hazel stool with a woven willow seat Traditional wooden rake making Make a beautiful stool from natural materials and learn Make a wooden rake and tailor its size to your needs using weaving and simple carpentry techniques. 9am–5pm green wood and traditional tools. You will make the rake head, Leader: John Waller fit the pegs as well as prepare and fit the handle. 9.30am–4.30pm Sunday 13 November £70 Leader: Mark Allery Saturday 1 October £60 Weekend woodcarving course TALES OF THE DOWNS AND BEYOND From a choice of five, select a carving project to complete on this two-day hands-on course. You will learn the basics Come to our series of interesting summer evening talks of woodcarving and take home what you make. 9am–5pm which will be published in our spring Friends’ magazine, and Leaders: Jess Jay and John Vardon on our website early in 2016. Saturday–Sunday 22–23 October £130 [email protected] 01243 811021 Countrysidecrafts Living willow chair workshop Weave a rush hat Come along to this one-day workshop and make a living An opportunity to make your own woven rush hat using the willow chair, which you can plant in your own garden. indigenous common bulrush. 9.30am–5pm 9.30am–5pm Leader: Rachel Frost Leader: Ganesh Bruce Kings or Elaine Kings Monday 8 August £60 Saturday 6 February £100 Willow garden supports Make interesting contemporary plant supports to enhance your garden using English willow and traditional methods. 9.30am–5pm Leader: Ganesh Bruce Kings or Elaine Kings Saturday 9 April £100 Weave a rush mat Willow workshop: weave and wale a basket An opportunity to make your own woven rush mat using the Using English brown willow and traditional techniques, learn indigenous common bulrush. 9.30am–5pm to weave and wale a basket to take home. 9am–5pm Leader: Rachel Frost Leader: Deborah Albon Tuesday 9 August £60 Sunday 10 July £70 Sunday 28 August £70 Corn dolly workshop Learn the history and development of this ancient craft, as Weave a rush bag well as the practical skills involved in weaving a corn dolly. Using indigenous common bulrush, you will learn how to 10am–5pm make a bag either with a shoulder strap or short handles. Leader: Verna Bailey 9.30am–5pm Saturday 17 September £50 Leader: Rachel Frost Sunday 7 August £60 www.wealddown.co.uk Rope work – making an animal halter NEW Make a Pyecombe-style crook For those who would like to be able to make their own For those who have done the Irons in the fire course and want bespoke halters for use in animal husbandry or for those to have another go. You will build on the skills learnt who would like to experience making their own rope and previously to make a Pyecombe-style crook to take home. extending their knot-tying skills. This course will teach the 9am–5.30pm basics of splicing including a halter eye splice, back splice, an Leader: Martin Fox eye splice, long and short splicing, explaining the uses and Saturday 24 September £90 limitations of each. You will also learn the basic principles of rope making and make the rope which you will use for your final project. Working in three ply cords in both natural and man-made fibres over the day. The final result will be a cotton rope halter that you will be able take home to use or admire long into the future. 10am–4pm Leader: Charlie Tyrrell Saturday 5 March £50 Leaded-light stained glass Irons in the fire Make a small leaded light stained glass panel and learn many A practical day in the Museum’s 150-year-old working skills including how to cut glass to a precise pattern and join smithy, learning about the traditional skills of the village the pieces with lead came. 9am–5pm blacksmith. Each student will make their own simple object Leader: David Lilly to take home. 9am–5.30pm Friday 15 April £110 Leader: Martin Fox Friday 15 April £90 Mill experience Saturday 16 April £90 Spend the morning in our 400-year old-watermill. Learn Historic trades & crafts trades Historic Friday 20 May £90 about its history, the different types of mill and their common Saturday 21 May £90 features. Learn how the watermill works, the key controls at Friday 24 June £90 the miller's disposal, and how they can affect the quality of Saturday 25 June £90 the flour produced. Then have a go at working in our mill and Friday 15 July £90 produce a small bag of flour to take home. 9.30am–12.30pm Saturday 16 July £90 Leaders: Museum Millers Friday 23 September £90 Monday 25 April £45 Saturday 14 May £45 Monday 6 June £45 [email protected] 01243 811021 Stone carving: Ammonite NEW Make a traditional hand-sewn book This workshop is for people who wish to develop skills in During this workshop students will make a non-adhesive book stone carving.
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