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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.
You may leave the Lake District, but once you’ve been, it’ll never leave you.
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Main St, Egremont
Dive into the fundamentals as we delve into the art of flower conditioning, care, and storage. This will explain how to get the very best out of your flowers, to keep them fresher and looking good for longer. I will also explain how to get flowers…
Stramongate, Kendal
Ply-split braiding is an innovative textile technique, a kind of off-loom weaving where high-twist cords go through the centre of, or are split by, other cords.
N Lonsdale Road, Ulverston
On arrival you will be greeted with a Shed One Fancy Frolic gin and tonic before being guided through blending your unique essential oil fragrance and candle making. Afterwards, sit back and enjoy freshly baked scones and cakes, tea and coffee.
Near.Kendal, Staveley
Focusing on the beautiful mosses and lichens, this workshop looks at ways to combine drawing and gouache painting and inktense to create marks, texture and colour in your landscape paintings.
Penrith
A full day photography course under the guidance of Amy Bateman, British Life Photographer of the Year, author and photographer of Forty Farms, and Rich Jones -a Professional Photographer.
The morning will be spent at Glencoyne Farm in Ullswater…
Coniston
This very special full day photography workshop is guided by Amy Bateman, British Life Photographer of the Year, author and photographer of Forty Farms, and Rich Jones, a Cumbria based Professional Photographer.
The course will be held at Yew Tree…
Grisedale Bridge, Glenridding
LOVE the landscape. Capture the dawn and Autumn colours through the lens on board a 2/3-hour cruise. This is a unique and very special memory making experience for early bird enthusiasts plus it's a great opportunity to meet local photographers,…
Penrith
Join Margaret Jarvis for the day and learn the various intricacies of painting in Pen and Wash
This medium can also be known as 'Watercolour & Ink'.
This day will touch on colour mixing and using watercolours and it combines the subtle variable…
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