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From pottery classes for children to glass-blowing lessons for grown-ups, in the Lake District you can really get to grips with a host of crafts. You can learn how to carve wood and engrave stone, work with paper and try your hand at weaving yarn out of wool.
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Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Since July 2020 our lovely, listed & spacious 'Covid-secure' new teaching studio, the 'Swallow Barn' has been up and running, & enjoying consistently excellent feedback. Please see our own website for all details. This promises to be an exciting…
Greystoke, Penrith
Freehand machine embroidery is among the favourite of techniques in the crafting world, it's easy, quick, effective and produces a great range of results, learning all the basic skills you need to use freehand machine embroidery.
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
One day Beginners' workshop ~ Learn essential knowledge and practical skills to improve your photography with Danielle Ledbury.
This is a one day beginner's course that gives you the opportunity to learn in a fun practical way, it is a mixture of…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Make a textured Plant Pot in Porcelain with Gwen Bainbridge
A day with this talented ceramics artist to create a unique piece for your favourite pot plant, of approx 5 inches across, but which would look equally effective as a statement in its own…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Be an artist Blacksmith for a Day with Adrian Woods - making two Sculptural Garden Flowers.
Take Artist Blacksmith Adrian Wood arriving with his apprentice Andy from Cleveland equipped with 4 portable blacksmith furnaces, anvils and many tools…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Be an artist Blacksmith for a Day with Adrian Woods - making two Sculptural Garden Flowers.
Take Artist Blacksmith Adrian Wood arriving with his apprentice Andy from Cleveland equipped with 4 portable blacksmith furnaces, anvils and many tools…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
A day with Richard & Annis creating your own Needle felt Herdwick Cushion top
Create your own unique and characterful needle felted Herdwick cushion top using quality Herdwick wools and other blends from local Cumbrian flocks!
Richard and Annis…
Greystoke, Penrith
Come and enjoy a day experimenting in this ancient Japanese technique of glazing and firing pottery, using heat, sawdust, fire and smoky bins!
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
"To draw well, we must first learn to see well" . . . Observational Drawing Day with David Cemmick
Wildlife artist David Cemmick has drawn from life all over the world. Be it animals on the move or an animal skull in the studio, but we must all…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
"To draw well, we must first learn to see well" . . . Observational Drawing Day with David Cemmick
Wildlife artist David Cemmick has drawn from life all over the world. Be it animals on the move or an animal skull in the studio, but we must all…
Greystoke, Penrith
Over this busy one day course you will together build a cob pizza oven and so take home the knowledge to recreate your very own outdoor pizza oven (and huge source of warmth) in your own garden.
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Beginners' Calligraphy Day with Gillian Hazeldine
Come and spend a day beginning to learn art of calligraphy, literally 'beautiful writing'. Contemporary calligraphy is based on the writing of scribes working from the 5th century AD right up to the…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Beginners' Calligraphy Day with Gillian Hazeldine
Come and spend a day beginning to learn art of calligraphy, literally 'beautiful writing'. Contemporary calligraphy is based on the writing of scribes working from the 5th century AD right up to the…
Greystoke, Penrith
Design and make your own bespoke beautiful jewellery in a day. You can even bring along a small personal treasure to copy and make into a stunning personalised piece.
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
This is a wonderful opportunity to make your own personal woven rush bag in a day, using the native common bulrush (Scirpus Lacustris). working on wooden blocks, you will learn how to weave this wonderfully supple material using techniques common to…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Weave your very own bespoke rush bag with Rachel Frost
This is a wonderful opportunity to make your own personal woven rush bag in a day, using the native common bulrush (Scirpus Lacustris). working on wooden blocks, you will learn how to weave…
Greystoke, Penrith
During this course you will be making a traditional English longbow out of a single piece of Ash.
Nothing is laminated or glued.
Greystoke, Penrith
An introduction to Pattern Cutting with Dr Maggi Toner-Edgar.
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
This workshop will give you the basic skills needed for leather work and at the same time you will make yourself a lovely bag using pre cut leather panels carefully prepared by Ruth. There will also be an option to dye the panels various colours…
Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith
Join Alister Neville, learn & carve a design for a decorative plaque, bowl or house sign.
Arriving in a large van weighed down with 3 workbenches Alister brings a full set of wood carving tools for each student, plenty of resources and pieces of…
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