Tweed Valley Forest Festival In the Hall.....

Aurora Aurora make turned bowls, carved clocks, barometers and mirrors using primarily hardwoods Wood Market and burrs local to North East . Steve Abrams, Mitchell Cottage, Rora, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 4UZ Community Centre & Telephone: 01779 821715 on Tweed Green, Peebles Email: [email protected]

Bellawood 19 & 20 October 2013 Supplier of Scottish hardwood timber to the woodturning trade. Furniture and sign maker too! Graham Bell, No. 1 Cottage, Borthwickbrae Farm, Roberton, , Roxburghshire, UK, TD9 7LZ Telephone: 01450 880 306 Email: [email protected]

Border Treenware Whittled greenwood treen. Brian Mahler, 20 Melrose Road, , TD1 2AY Telephone: 07443497536 Email: [email protected]

Tom Cooper Fine Furniture Every piece of furniture is individually designed and custom made to the customers exact requirements, whether it be contemporary or traditional. All styles, tastes and types of furniture are catered for, and any ideas from the client can be accommodated and developed into a design realisation. Telephone: 0131 663 4844 / 0776 385 6046 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tctimberworks.com

Corra Star Designs Decorative log doorstops and log tealight holders that are painted or waxed. 8 Farington Farm Cottages, Kelso TD5 8NT Telephone: 07557040057 Email: [email protected]

Driftwood Studios www.peebleswoodmarket.co.uk Kenneth McQueenie makes driftwood art and www.forest-festival.com undertakes traditional picture framing. Traquair House Estate Telephone: 07709 745026/ 01896 831260 07801 308991 Email: [email protected]

Elston Landscapes Michael McManus Tree stump removal specialist, Tripod Ladders Carver, sculptor, tutor. Don’t miss the famous Dealer & Log Splitter Dealer. gigantic conkers! Elston Landscapes is a long and established family 5 Tynemount Farm Cottages, Ormiston business that provides both landscaping and stump EH35 5NN grinding services across Scotland. Telephone: 07920 776 171 Keith Elston, 17 Den Park, Abernethy, Perthshire Email: [email protected] PH2 9JF Website: www.michaelmcmanus.co.uk Telephone/Fax: 01738 850742 Website: www.elston-landscapes.co.uk Mirrors By Robert McKeen Uniquely fashioned from Scottish woods. Robert McKeen, 48 Sinclair Ave, Glenrothes, Fife Rob Elliot Telephone: 01592 756613 Since 1987 Rob has created functional and artistic Email [email protected] furniture in local elm following the flowing forms of nature. Mystic Mounts Rocking Horses Telephone: 01750 722243 Bob and Sheena Thomson, 58 Parkhead Loan, Email: [email protected] EH11 4SL Website: www.robeliotfurrniture.com Telephone: 0131 443 9510 Email [email protected] Website: www.mysticmounts.co.uk Flights of Fancy Gifts with a nature theme.. One Good Turn Deryck Henley, 3 Linglie Mill, Level Crossing Road, Hand made wooden products…the art of Selkirk woodturning. TD7 5EQ Alderlea, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire AB51 0LJ Telephone: 01750 22142/ Fax: 01750 22147 Telephone: 01467624928 / 07894 077 011 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.flightsoffancy.co.uk Real Wood Studios is a co-operative of furniture Golden Hands designer-makers based near Jedburgh in the Scottish Yuri Karpov specialises in high quality wooden Borders. We specialise in the creative use of native interior items including furniture, pictures, mirrors, Scottish hardwoods and we have our own on-site boxes and more. sawmill. Telephone: 0131 261 7891 / 0742 550 9114 Monteviot Nurseries, Ancrum, Nr Jedburgh, Email: [email protected] TD8 6TU Website: www.golden-hands.org Telephone: 01835 830 767 Email: [email protected] Website: www.realwoodstudios.com Hollytree Woodcrafts Ltd Natural Edge Wooden Boxes, turnery & wood art. Ron’s Jigbits David McKeen, Graindrier Bungalow, Falkland, Fife Wwonderful wooden animal jigsaws – the real thing! KY15 7AE 3 Masterton Place, Newtown grange, Dalkeith Telephone: 01337 857977 / 07769 622 380 Telephone: 01875 825405 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.hollytreewoodcrsfts.com Colin Semple Furniture Design Furniture Making & Restoration Kiwicraft Mirrors The Old School, Stobo EH45 8NU. Inspired by his native New Zealand Maori designs, Telephone: 07739 209697 Richard is now also working with Celtic themes. Email: [email protected] Richard Guy, 57 Weavers Knowe Crescent, Currie, Website: www.colinsemple.com Edinburgh, EH14 5PP Telephone: 07523210814 Website: www.kiwicraftmirrors.co.uk

Tailored Wood Telephone: 01896 750222 Wooden furniture and ornaments Website: www.forestry.gov.uk Brian Taylor, 62 Old Lanark Road, Carluke, ML8 4HR John Muir Trust Telephone 01555 750285 / 07710 562549 John Muir Trust is the leading wild land conservation charity in the UK, working to protect Rob Thomson wild land and places. We will be at the festival Boxes, stools, coffee tables, and larger selling diaries, cards and calenders as well as commissioned pieces created mainly from native providing information regarding our work in the hardwoods. UK and the opportunity to join us for a reduced Telephone: 01578 760646/ 0771 047 7710 rate. Email: [email protected] Conservation Ranger for Glenlude Estate Website: robthomsonfurniturre.com Telephone: 01750 62225 / 07811 354957 Email: [email protected] Website: www.jmt.org Webster-Wood Furniture Maker. Restoration. House fixtures and The cafe is open.... fittings. In the Community Centre- thanks to Suzanne Telephone: 07761 267 263 Brown and friends ...... serving up lots of yummy Website: www.webster-wood.com food including Tweed Valley Venison Burgers. Email: [email protected] You can get Suzanne on 0798 002 5242

Whimsytown Scottish hardwood jewellery & 'Housie' things by Joyce F Lewis. On the Green..... Telephone: 01721 722453 Email: [email protected] 7th Scottish Conker Championship (Saturday only) Wee Toon Carver Borders Forest Trust is the main organising Wood carvings of wood spirits made from partner for the Conker Championship. driftwood, Scottish hardwoods and reclaimed BFT work to conserve, restore and manage native whiskey staves. woodlands and other natural habitat for the benefit John Brown, West Garvoirne, Roading, of people and wildlife. They support community Campeltown, PA28 6LU woodland, habitat restoration, education and arts Telephone 01586 554 126 projects and develop woodland-based economic Email: [email protected] activities including a range of small wood products. Website: www.weetooncarver.com Monteviot Nurseries, Ancrum, Jedburgh TD8 6TU Telephone: 01835 830 750 Email: [email protected] In the activities room...... Website: www.bordersforesttrust.org

Puppet Lab Have a go at Log Sawing See the Woodland Animals Show at various times We have a 5 foot long, two person saw and some throughout the weekend. 81 Great Junction Street, fresh cut logs. Leith, Edinburgh EH6 5HZ Come and have a go and see what it was like being a Telephone 0131 554 8923 real lumberjack - or Jill. (Checked shirts optional!). Email: [email protected] Find a partner and cut a pair of place-mats to take Website: www.puppet-lab.com away with you. Have two shots and get a set ! You'll find out that each person only pulls the saw Forestry Commission Scotland and the other pulls it back. Find out about trees, forestry and wood products. Push and it jams. Try for yourself !. Information on local woodlands, grants and tree Camera at the ready..... health. Make your woodland animal pencil holder! Over 16s only - not just for the lads - open to the And more.... ladies too. It's easy!!. South Scotland Conservancy Area Office, Forest Organised by CWA. Mill, Selkirk TD7 5NY Real Wood Studios NaiLit! Mobile sawmill in action on the Green. For the 16s and under Monteviot Nurseries, Ancrum, Nr Jedburgh, How strong and how accurate are you? Scottish Borders TD8 6TU Come and drive a nail into a log. Telephone: 01835 830 767 Easy? Show us! Have a try and then watch the other Email: [email protected] nails. Furthest in wins. If you manage to drive it all Website: www.realwoodstudios.com the way in, we'll have a tie breaker with BIGGER nails. Presented for the first time in 2013. Simon Lockwood Organised by CWA. Miniforwarder for hire! Firewood and native woodland management. Telephone: 07553220336 Agraspark Ltd Email: [email protected] All things woody for the garden and beyond. Longnewton Sawmill, Melrose, TD6 9EU Tweed Valley Fruit Trees (Saturday only) Telephone: 01835 822315 A specialist fruit tree nursery offering a wide Website: www.agraspark.com selection of apple, pear and plum trees. We graft and grow all our trees in the Scottish Borders and Dust and Chips - are Chainsaw Carving despatch to customers through out the UK. (Saturday only) Telephone: 01896 831 147 Furniture Fencing & Timber Construction and Email: [email protected] Specialist Tree Services & Training. Website: www.tweedvalleyfruittrees.com Johnny Stableford Telephone: 01506 846644 Whisky Barrel Rockers Email: [email protected] Furniture designed for outdoor use including gardens, patios, pubs and bars. Benches, tables, Peter Bowsher - is Chainsaw Carving stools and rockinghorse by Robbie Reid (Sunday only) Telephone: 0772 522 1267 Chapel Hill Cottage, Moffat DG10 9SB Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07778 217 446 Website: www.whiskybarrelrockers.co.uk

Alasdair Taylor Paul Henry is making ash hurdles Wild Food demonstrations outside his Geodesic Dome. Environmental Education Consultant Paul Henry, The Bothy, Fairnlee, Galashiels, Telephone: 01578 730 436 / 075 0494 6239 Telephone: 01896 850330 Email: [email protected] Website: www.earthforlife.net

One Good Turn - will be bodging Black and Green Project Bob and friends will be at the pole-lathe and shave- The Whitmuir Biochar Project has established a horse. small scale biochar production unit to create biochar Bob Fleet, Stow, Scottish Borders from local woody waste and has set up a community Telephone: 01578 730327 based biochar growing trial. The project aims to research whether biochar can improve crop Email: [email protected] productivity and contribute to the battle against climate change. c/o Whitmuir Organics, Lamancha, EH45 7BB Telephene: 07415 634155 The Crafty Beggars Email: [email protected] Make your own witches besom and see spoon carving in action! Wiston Lodge, Milrlrigg Road, Wiston, South Wooplaw Bushcraft Group Lanarkshire, ML12 6HT The Wooplaw bushcraft crew are making a coracle Telephone: 07591 008156 for Working the Tweed. Made over the weekend and Email: [email protected] launching on Sunday afternoon at 3pm with Alice Francis in it. Hope to carve the paddle too!

Supporting organisations...... Working the Tweed / Salmo Salar A unique river happening in homage to the return of the salmon is being prepared by Working the Treefest Scotland South & Central Partnership Tweed artists Kate Foster, Jules Horne, Claire The Treefest Partnership is helping to bring Pencak and James Wyness with a special guest together a series of tree and wood related activities appearance by Alice Francis, performance and and events. c/o FCS, Forest Mill, Selkirk TD7 5NY installation artist from and Galloway. Telephone: 01896 750222 or 07801 308991 Working the Tweed is a Year of Natural Scotland Website: www.forest-festival.com 2013 project collaboration between Tabula Rasa, Tweed Forum and Southern Uplands Partnership. Wood for Good Telephone: 01450 860 378 / 07768 172891 Wood for Good aim to achieve a substantial change Website: www.workingthetweed.co.uk in attitudes to wood, leading to an increase in consumption in the UK, through promoting wood’s unique properties: Good for the environment ~ Good performance ~ Good looks Website: www.woodforgood.com Elsewhere in the Festival .....

And remember to pop into.... Arboricultural Association (Scottish Branch) Woodworks, 8 Newby Court, School Brae in Local tree care advice. Ted Radford, 21 Station Peebles to see Bruce Frost and his work which Road, Eddleston, EH43 8QN includes the stunning conker trophies! Telephone: 01721 730665 Telephone: 01721 724442 Email: Ted [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.trees.org.uk Website: www.woodworks-peebles.co.uk Grown in Britain Grown in Britain brings together everyone who values our forests, woods and trees and the products we can make from the wood they produce. Website: www.growninbritain.org/index.jsp

And somewhere over the weekend... Local Community Woodlands organisations will be on hand with information.