Following on from our really popular workshop events we held last year we have put together a wee list of forthcoming events to take place at Buy Design Gallery or Wooplaw Woods. Choose a preferred workshop and submit it to us.

Below is a list of what is still available. These places go fast  folks ..... so we look forward to hearing from you soon.

FOR MORE INFO & BOOKING FORM SEE HERE

Stool Making Day                            Sat 25th February (Buy Design Gallery)
FULLY BOOKED

Shaving Horse Weekend            Sat 10th / Sun 11th March (Buy Design Gallery)
FULLY BOOKED

Willow Chair Making                    Sat 24th March (Wooplaw Woods)
FULLY BOOKED    

Stool Making Day                            Sat 28th April (Buy Design Gallery)
FULLY BOOKED

Hedge Chair Weekend               Sat 12th/Sun 13th May (Buy Design Gallery)
Five Places at £150.00

Hazel Stick Chair Weekend     Sat 26th/ Sun 27th May (Buy Design Gallery)
Five Places at £150.00


What you need to know
All of these days are for novices and accomplished alike. Led by Keith Wintrup and Eoin Cox you will be taken through a really great day of learning and making. This is a  brilliant start for anyone wanting to know how to make their own green wood furniture or work with greenwood and willow. You'll get taken through tools, timbers and techniques.

Bring your own lunch, warm clothing and your enthusiasm. Starts at 9.45 prompt and finishes around 5.00. for the day courses. If you would like to participate please choose your preferred courses and days and we will get in touch regarding availability. You will see the cost above. This includes all your timber, materials, tuition, use of tools and our infamous craic !
Or phone 01835 830718 (Every day 10-5) for more 1:1 information. By the way full payment confirms your place ! Thanks !

We thought we would share a comment made by a recent workshop participant -

"I'm amazed that I made (with lots of help) a piece of large, friendly, usable furniture in just one day.  Straight from the woods - no waiting for, or ordering of materials, thus giving a direct connection with the woods and trees.  I was also amazed at/seduced by the pure white wood being revealed by stripping the willow bark. Keith and Eoin are fab instructors, very patient, knowledgeable and, very fortunately, 100 steps ahead of us students.

I feel that I come to life when I do your workshops, feel a great sense of freedom. It's always difficult when you start working with new materials/tools, you feel a bit stupid/awkward/ out of your comfort zone, but I still feel free from what I do normally, and generally everyone in the class is in the same boat, in a learning situation.

Normally I draw what I want to see made and/or use stock materials and expect the object to 'be' that drawing. But being in a situation where you have to react quickly, work with unknown materials, learn to use what's immediately available can be alarming initially but it makes you more resourceful, gives you a good understanding of the materials and bridges the gap between us and our ancestors. There are no 'down the line' implications to what I make there, no fussy clients or employers to please. It is done for pure enjoyment and for the making process.  I'm sure my not so distant, itinerant, ancestors must have made things like this, they were pretty resourceful folk.

I will be back to make something else, maybe a sofa next time ! "

All course for 2012 are being organised and run by the big tree society here