The Old Kennels
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Tracey Bell 2003
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Tracey Bell 2003 |
The Old Kennels Programme 2010
Classes run 10am - 4pm, we will be glad to welcome you for coffee from 9.45am.
Hot
and cold drinks are
inclusive and served throughout the day.
Lunch
is served as a sit down buffet, please bring a
small dish of something to share.
Tuesday 26th January 2010
THE ART OF CHOCOLATE
Valentines
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Carlo Melchior(website)
A very special one day class with Carlo Melchior, an established Swiss Master Chocolatier, who has been making exquisite, hand-crafted chocolates for the past 25 years. The day will include understanding chocolate and tempering, you will use the finest ingredients and learn how to use moulds and dipping techniques. You will of course take home your samples to enjoy!
£55 (plus materials approximately £10)
Wednesday 27th January 2010
INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING
Tutor: David Morris (website)
This course will give an insight into the many facets of the honeybee. The year of the honeybee and the beekeeper will be explained. The queen, the drones and the worker bees will be described and the role they play within the colony structure. Products of the hive will extend beyond just the honey and the part they play in our lives.
£35 for the day
Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th February 2010
WORKING WITH SILVER
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Julian Livingstone
Ever popular, this two day class with a professional silver
smith is aimed at complete beginners and improvers. Starting with sheet metals and expert guidance you will learn to cut, shape, solder, bezel set stones and polish to make small items of jewellery, a sugar spoon or other trinkets and keepsakes to your own designs. You are welcome to work in gold or other metals by prior arrangement.
£85 for two days
Plus materials by weight (approx. 65p/gm inc. solder etc.).
* two places remaining*
Tutor: Victoria Wright, Healing Herbs (website)
Enjoy a day making your own effective and luxurious natural herbal products for your bath time. We will make skin softening Bath Melts, containing cocoa butter, dried herbs, sea salt and essential oils, Bath Bags with oats and herbs, exfoliating Body Polish Gel and a cleansing Body Wash. No experience necessary. A detailed hand-out will be yours to take home containing all the recipes and information about
the raw materials used.
£35 (plus materials approximately £20)
* class full - please november date or request information on additional dates*
Tutor: Tracey Bell
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads and want to see if lampworking is for you, this is your chance to take a one day reduced rate ‘taster’ class! You will learn the basic principles of working safely and understanding your materials. There will be ample opportunity to try several shapes of bead and work in your choice of colours, as well as some basic surface decoration.
£55 including all gas and glass
* four places remaining*
Tutor: Alec Lawless (website)
Make your own fragrance under the guidance of a professional natural perfumer. Alec Lawless, author of 'Artisan Perfumery or Being Led by the Nose' has been working with essential oils and absolutes for over twenty years. The day is an introduction to the intriguing world of scent and will include some talks about aspects of fragrance covering the history, production of natural raw materials and the modern industry. As well as leaving with your own fragrance in a 56 ml Italian flint crystal bottle there will be time to smell some very unusual natural aromatics and ask any of those questions that you have always wondered about.
£125 for the day, to include materials.
Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th March 2010
FRAME BASKET
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Hilary Burns (website)
The 'hoop and rib' construction technique used in frame basketry lends itself to country style baskets in round and oval dished shapes or double bottomed baskets with central hoop handles. These were often made by travellers or agricultural workers using hedgerow materials rather
than by professional basket makers. Students will make an
egg basket with a handle in a size of their choice weaving with
bark-on willow in a variety of natural colours.
£85 for two days (plus materials approximately £10)
Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th March 2010
CANE SEATING
* One Place remaining*
Tutor: Brenda Burt (website)
Restore a cane chair or stool, using rattan cane using the traditional six way Victoria pattern. A day for beginners or improvers. Just bring along your chair cleaned and ready to go. Brenda is a professional seater with over 20 years experience and will help you choose the right method for your chair dependant on the style of the furniture.
£85 for two days
(plus materials - approximately £12 for a chair seat or back)
Wednesday 31st March 2010
THE ART OF CHOCOLATE
Easter theme
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Carlo Melchior (website)
A very special one day class with Carlo Melchior, an established Swiss Master Chocolatier, who has been making exquisite, hand-crafted chocolates for the past 25 years. The day will include understanding chocolate and tempering, you will use the finest ingredients and learn how to use moulds and dipping techniques. You will of course take home your samples to enjoy!
£55 (plus materials approximately £10)
Tuesday 13th April 2010
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
spring flower
* two places remaining*
Tutor: Jane Watkins (website)
Local artist Jane Watkins will lead you into the magical world of botanical illustration, demonstrating how she captures the minute detail of a spring flower first using pencil then bringing it to life with watercolours. You will work with Jane to produce your own card-sized piece which can be reproduced at a later date for greetings or postcards, or simply framed to enjoy.
£35 plus materials available from tutor at cost as required
Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010
SUSSEX TRUG
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor; John Carnell, 1066 Country trugs, Hastings
Learn the secrets of hand-crafting traditional steamed Sussex Garden trugs made of ‘cricket bat’ Willow and Sweet Chestnut under the instruction of a traditional Sussex trug maker. You will cleave the timber, shape panels, frame and handle with a drawknife, then steam the Chestnut and soak the Willow before assembling your trugs with copper nails. This very special and rarely seen course which employs only hand tools and where you will construct your trugs from tree to finish. All tools are provided and no experience is necessary.
£165 for three days plus £20 materials
Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st April 2010
Ply Split Braiding
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor:Julie (website)
Ply – Splitting has traditionally been used to make camel girths & animal regalia in Rajasthan & Gujarat, India. Work with Julie Hedges in this versatile technique using highly twisted cords in cotton and linen to make exciting shaped braids which can be used for textile accessories and jewellery.
£130 for three days
plus materials as/if required
Tuesday 27th, Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th April 2010
SCULPTING GLASS BEADS
(intermediate/advanced class)
* (class full)*
Friday 30th April, Saturday 1st May, Sunday 2nd May 2010
SCULPTING GLASS BEADS
(intermediate/advanced class)
*ADDITIONAL DATE - NOT IN BROCHURE!*
*TWO PLACES REMAINING*
Tutor: Teresa Laliberte (Germany) (website)
Teresa will teach you how to make sculpted glass beads. Starting with the basics, and using some of her most popular designs. You will learn all about heat control and how to use it for sculpting, using gravity and hand tools to help with shaping. Also how to approach surface decoration as it applies to sculptural beads through the use of enamel powders, frit, silver & gold leaf, wire and mesh.
£360 for three days including materials
(Please call or email to reserve your place before sending your booking as this class has very limited places)
Tuesday 4th May 2010
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Carlo Melchior(website)
A very special one day class with Carlo Melchior, an established Swiss Master Chocolatier, who has been making exquisite, hand-crafted chocolates for the past 25 years. The day will include understanding chocolate and tempering, you will use the finest ingredients and learn how to use moulds and dipping techniques. You will of course take home your samples to enjoy!
£55 (plus materials approximately £10)
Monday 24th May 2010
WILLOW GARDEN SUPPORTS
* four places remaining*
Tutor: Hilary Burns (website)
Weave an ornamental and functional wigwam style plant support and be prepared for your sweet peas this year! Learn to make these popular willow forms and take home a wealth of ideas to help you carry on experimenting in your garden as well as a finished piece. Addictive and fun.
£40 (Plus materials approximately £8 each support)
Tuesday 25th May 2010
BREAD BAKING - THE SOLAR OVEN
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Tracey Smith (website)
spend a day with local author/broadcaster on sustainable living, Tracey Smith and find out how to harness the power of the sun to cook your food. Bring along a few inexpensive items and get practical by making your own working solar oven. Compare your home-made oven and an ‘off the shelf’ unit that retails for around £270; the difference is startling! It’s a fun packed day and providing the sun is shining, you’ll eat some of the fruits of your labours too.
£35 (plus materials approximately £15)
Wednesday 26th May 2010
New ways with GROWING VEGETABLES
Especially salad leaves
* two places remaining*
Tutor: Charles Dowding (website)
Learn all about producing beautiful salads and vegetables offering harvests for long periods, whether on a windowsill, in your garden or on the allotment. Author of books on organic salad growing and 'no dig' vegetable gardening Charles Dowding will share his experience of every stage from ground clearance to harvesting, including protection of crops and lessening slugs. An unmissable opportunity for anyone who already grows, or aspires to grow their own vegetables.
£55 for the day
Monday 7th June 2010
LAPIDARY
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Jim Edmondson (website)
A hands on course to create your own gemstone, you will cut, grind, polish and finish slices of natural semi-precious rock in to beautiful cabochon stones for setting in silver or simply to keep and enjoy - its not magic its lapidary!
£55 (plus nominal charge for materials approx £3 per slice)
Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th June 2010
WORKING WITH SILVER
* four places remaining*
Tutor: Julian Livingstone
Ever popular, this two day class with a professional silver
smith is aimed at complete beginners and improvers. Starting with sheet metals and expert guidance you will learn to cut, shape, solder, bezel set stones and polish to make small items of jewellery, a sugar spoon or other trinkets and keepsakes to your own designs. You are welcome to work in gold or other metals by prior arrangement.
£85 for two days
Plus materials by weight (approx. 65p/gm inc. solder etc.).
Saturday 12th June 2010
GLASS BEADMAKING
TASTER DAY
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Tracey Bell
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads and want to see if lampworking is for you, this is your chance to take a one day reduced rate ‘taster’ class! You will learn the basic principles of working safely and understanding your materials. There will be ample opportunity to try several shapes of bead and work in your choice of colours, as well as some basic surface decoration.
£55 including all gas and glass
Monday 14th June 2010
SILK PAPER WITH FELT
* three places remaining*
Tutor: Liz Clay (website)
A wonderfully creative day exploring two compatible fibre crafts: silk paper with hand made felt. Transform textile scraps and organic materials with lustrous silk fibres into sheets of richly coloured paper. Then use them to inspire and embellish your hand made felt masterpiece. Liz will demonstrate cutting, layering and laminating techniques with both 2D and 3D designs.
£55 (plus materials approximately £5)
Tuesday 15th June 2010
PAPER MARBLING
* One place remaining*
Tutor: Jemma Lewis of Jemma Marbling (website)
Hand Marbled paper is often found inside the
covers of quality books, you will not want to hide your beautiful creations! Wonderful for decoration of the covers (inside or out) of your books. A useful and interesting technique, as at home on paper as it is on fabric. A rare opportunity to be taught by a professional. All materials are included, a really fun day, simply bring a pinny and wear old clothes, very addictive!
£35 for one day ( plus materials £10)
Wednesday 16th June 2010
ENAMELLING
sifting and stencilling
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Jane Geeson website
An introduction to the art of vitreous enamelling which is the process of fusing glass to metal. The glass, which has been ground to a powder, is applied to metal and fired in a kiln. During the day, you will make a two-sided pendant; this project is designed to enable you to practise the enamelling procedures of sifting, wet inlay, scrolling, and stencilling as well as silver foil application.
£35 for one day
(Plus materials available from the tutor at a nominal sum)
Monday 28th, Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th June 2010
PRECIOUS METAL CLAY
setting natural stones
* two places remaining*
Tutor: Sara Dutton website
Introduction to Precious Metal Clay/Refresher Day
Day 1 will include how to make a pendant and earrings making bails, stone setting, drilling, torch firing and finishing a piece
Setting Natural Stones
Days 2 & 3 Explore how to set stones and inclusions that can not be fired with your PMC
Precious Metal Clay has been made By Mitsubishi Materials since the early 1990s. PMC as its known, is fine silver or gold particles mixed with an organic binder forming a clay texture, this can be moulded, textured and carved and when dried it is fired and the binder burns away leaving fine silver 99.9 % pure. This exciting prouct can be shaped with very simple tools and used with lots of different mediums. PMC comes in clay, paste, syringe and sheet form
£130 for three days
(Plus materials - initial pack containing clay, sheet, paste, stones and sundries supplied at a cost of approximately £90 - further materials available to purchase as/if required).
Monday 13th September 2010
HERBAL FIRST AID
* three places remaining*
Tutor: Victoria Wright, Healing Herbs (website)
During this enjoyable and productive day we shall be hand-crafting four home remedies for your herbal first aid kit. Healing Ointment with calendula, comfrey and beeswax for cuts and wounds, Antiseptic Gel with tea tree and lavender, Red Rub Salve for aching muscles and sprains which contains cayenne oil, beeswax and rosemary, and finally a Soothing Chamomile Cream for itching and inflamed skin. No experience necessary. A detailed hand-out will be yours to take home containing all the recipes and information about the raw materials used.
£35 (plus materials approximately £20)
Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th September 2010
FABRIC PRINTING
* five places remaining*
Tutor: Dawn Dupree (website)
Experiment with print on textiles. Explore a range of surfaces using dyes, pigments, flocks and foils. Photographic silkscreen, open-screen printing and heat-press methods will be used to create a range of layered fabrics.
£95 for two days (plus materials approximately £20)
Monday 27th September 2010
NATURES LARDER
a wild food journey
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Robin Harford (website)
Wild Food is the original, true taste of Britain. Master forager Robin Harford will take you out into the countryside to find and identify various wild edible plants. After the forage, we’ll all go back to the kitchen to cook and eat what we have discovered. In the afternoon you’ll be shown traditional ways to preserve wild foods.
£55 for the day including your wild foraged lunch
Tuesday 28th & Wednesday 29th September 2010
RUSH BASKETS
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Linda Lemieux (website)
Using top quality rush from Linda’s own beds and other easily found materials, you will weave on moulds to give pleasing and useful shapes. Rush is soft and easy to handle, more forgiving on the hands than willow, this medium lends itself to flexible forms. You will start by learning basic techniques, then make your choice of item such as a wine bottle coaster, hat, lidded jewellery box, round bread basket or small planter/waste paper basket.
£85 (plus approximately £4 - £12 for rush)
Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th October 2010
CUT-IT:STITCH-IT:CUT-IT
* one place remaining*
Tutor: Lyn Horniblow
Explorations of stitching and couching thicker yarns with your sewing machine – cutting, reassembling and adding decoration, with some hand stitching included. This course is suitable for beginners, or more experienced stitchers, simply bring a sewing machine you are familiar with and take it to new limits!
£85 (plus materials available as/if required)
Wednesday 6th October 2010
*ADDITIONAL DATE - NOT IN BROCHURE!*
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Carlo Melchior(website)
A very special one day class with Carlo Melchior, an established Swiss Master Chocolatier, who has been making exquisite, hand-crafted chocolates for the past 25 years. The day will include understanding chocolate and tempering, you will use the finest ingredients and learn how to use moulds and dipping techniques. You will of course take home your samples to enjoy!
£55 (plus materials approximately £10)
Monday 1st & Tuesday 2nd November 2010
SILVER CORE BEADS
* five places remaining*
Tutor: Josephine Wadman (website)
Make your own silver core beads from scratch. We will discuss suitable designs, make glass lamp work beads on large mandrels and then line them with silver tubing. I will demonstrate a number of methods including dapping punches and the use of the Jim Moore bead press and Impress bead liner. You will be able to try one or more of these methods.
£220 including gas, glass & silver tube
(PLease call or email to book as places
are very limited for this class)
Saturday 6th November 2010
GLASS BEADMAKING
TASTER DAY
* two places remaining*
Tutor: Tracey Bell
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads and want to see if lampworking is for you, this is your chance to take a one day reduced rate ‘taster’ class! You will learn the basic principles of working safely and understanding your materials. There will be ample opportunity to try several shapes of bead and work in your choice of colours, as well as some basic surface decoration.
£55 including all gas and glass
Monday 8th November 2010
BLOCK PRINTED CHRISTMAS CARDS
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Merlyn Chesterman
home website
public art & commissions
£35
including a glass of festive cheer with lunch
(plus approximately £12 materials to include
wood blocks, paper and inks)
Tuesday 9th & Wednesday 10th November 2010
WORKING WITH SILVER
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Julian Livingstone
Ever popular, this two day class with a professional silver
smith is aimed at complete beginners and improvers. Starting with sheet metals and expert guidance you will learn to cut, shape, solder, bezel set stones and polish to make small items of jewellery, a sugar spoon or other trinkets and keepsakes to your own designs. You are welcome to work in gold or other metals by prior arrangement.
£85 for two days
Plus materials by weight (approx. 65p/gm inc. solder etc.).
Monday 22nd,Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th November 2010
MAGICAL MYSTICAL BEADS
* four places remaining*
Tutors: Julie Ann Denton (website)
& Cliff Wright (website)
Flameworker Julie Anne Denton, in conjunction with
Cliff Wright, renowned illustrator of the Harry Potter books; will teach a class which encompasses both bead making
and drawing.
Cliff will establish your innate creativity through drawing, by
experimentation and 'letting go' of your preconceived ideas.
Whilst Julie will give you the skills necessary to make glass
beads which are sculptural and/or functional using dots,
stringer decoration (including drawing techniques directly
onto glass) silver leaf, silver/gold fuming, powder application, cold working and flame polishing. The workshop will be relaxing, fun and a magical journey of self
discovery set in a wonderful, natural environment.
£400 for three days including materials
(PLease call or email to book as places
are limited for this class)
Tuesday 30th November & Wednesday 1st December 2010
ELIZABETHAN EMBROIDERY
Sweet Bags: an Investigation into
16th & 17th Century Needlework
* three places remaining*
Tutor: Jacqui Carey(website)
Jacqui has been analysing old textiles for many years, and has accumulated a body of evidence about English needlework dating from the 16th to 17th century. (Some of which has been published in her latest book "Sweet Bags: an Investigation into 16th & 17th Century Needlework").
'Modern' stitches are structurally different to the ones seen on the Elizabethan/Jacobean/Stuart objects. Therefore the techniques used in this era were also different.
During the workshop, Jacqui will share this research work with students (lots of lovely photos- but sadly no actual C16-17th examples!). You will learn about the historical context of this work, before trying your hand at some of the stitches, starting work on your very own 'spot' sampler - a visual storehouse of patterns and stitches - a valuable and vital tool for any Elizabethan lady.
£95 plus materials as/if required
Monday 6th December 2010
SEASONAL SPLENDOUR
* six places remaining*
Tutor: Hilary Burns (website)
Plait twist and weave a selection of decorations for hanging on the tree or to use as a table centrepiece. Use willow flax, rush, other natural materials and paper to make reindeer, stars, trees and decorative balls with festive flair.
£40 including a glass of festive cheer with lunch
(plus materials approximately £5)
Tuesday 7th December 2010
THE ART OF CHOCOLATE
* class full - waiting list only*
what does this mean?
Tutor: Carlo Melchior (website)
A very special one day class with Carlo Melchior, an established Swiss Master Chocolatier, who has been making exquisite, hand-crafted chocolates for the past 25 years. The day will include understanding chocolate and tempering, you will use the finest ingredients and learn how to use moulds and dipping techniques. You will of course take home your samples to enjoy!
£55 including a glass of festive cheer with lunch
(plus materials approximately £10)
TBC 2010
Glass Bead Making - (Lampwork)
and
Jewellery Sterling Silver Wire Working
(intermediate
class)
Tutor : Kate Drew-Wilkinson web
Kate will take just five students for a four day master class (three days
of torch work and one day of silver wire work) with focus on cane making,
latticcino, vessels, acid etching, use of stained glass scrap, colour mixing
and silver wire working.
For intermediate lamp workers who are keen to progress
£600 for four days including gas,
glass and basic silver materials
PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR THIS CLASS - PLACES WILL BE OFFERED AS SOON AS KATES FLIGHTS ARE CONFIRMED!
