Arts and Crafts courses in United Kingdom

SP01. Working with Cold Enamel with Henrietta Fernandez 2 day intensive course for students at all levels! Study mode: Full days, consecutive Saturdays Date: Saturday 7 and Saturday 14 May 2011 Times: 10.30am – 5pm Max student numbers : 6 Course cost: £200 This course is suitable for...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

2 day intensive course for students at all levels! This course is primarily for Southwark residents and is sponsored by Southwark Council, but a limited number of places are also available to non- residents of the borough This course is suitable for people...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

2 day intensive course for complete beginners! This course is primarily for Southwark residents and is sponsored by Southwark Council, but a limited number of places are also available to non- residents of the borough Course Aims: The course aims to introduce and...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Family Workshops These Introductory family workshops aim to get children involved in making and enjoying their creativity. Course details: An exciting opportunity for you and your child to make fabulous objects in metal using the cuttlefish casting technique: Design a pendant or medal...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This course is aimed at those who have just started in furniture making and wish to learn basic techniques and tool maintenance. Some who have attended this course have gone on to further training. The first day is devoted to tool sharpening...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

It is said that bad workmen blame their tools, and to a certain extent this is true, as bad workmen usually do not know how to treat their tools. It is impossible to do good work in cabinet making without exquisitely...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

As wood cannot be welded, efficient and accurate jointing is the absolute basis of fine furniture making. It is important to understand the forces acting upon a piece and choose the appropriate joint for the situation. It is equally important to...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Dovetails are often considered to be the benchmark of good furniture. Furniture brochures point to the machine cut dovetails as if to say "Look at the dovetails, it must be a quality piece", but machine cut dovetails are a rather bland,...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

On this course you will find out about the importance of surface preparation, finish selection for specific timbers and staining. Finally you will learn how to apply three different types of finish: - Oil based - Acrylic - Traditional French polish The finishing techniques...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Mastering the skills of veneering and laminating greatly extends the design possibilities available to the furniture maker. The advent of relatively cheap vacuum press systems has brought these techniques within the range of the hobby furniture maker. This course is designed...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This course is an opportunity for you to get to grips with cutting accurate dovetails and creating perfectly fitting drawers, the sort that push the other drawers out as you push one in! We will make a small box of three drawers,...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

As part of our involvement in Craft and Design Month in May and North Yorkshire Open Studios in June we are offering a limited number of free marquetry taster sessions. During these three hour sessions we will make the classical parterae...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Come and get your creativity flowing in a friendly, artistic environment! Over 7 evenings or 3 days, this course will give you a taster of all the areas of printmaking offered at WYPW, including monoprint, collagraph, drypoint, etching, linocut and screen...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Intensive "one to one" tuition by a qualified picture framer on all aspects of picture framing. arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This 2-day course is a practical hands-on experience giving you the skills and knowledge to make your own work. You will go away with lots of samples of different techniques and on the second day will have the opportunity to put...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This practical course is aimed at beginners who want to learn the fundamental techniques of leaded stained glass. Each attendee will complete a leaded stained glass panel to take home at the end of the day. Course Content · Cutting glass to fit...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Glass fusing is the process of heating separate pieces of glass to a high enough temperature that they bond to become a single piece of glass. You will work with cold pieces of glass which you will decorate in various ways...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This 1-day course is a practical hands-on experience giving you the skills and knowledge to make your own work. You will produce lots of samples of different techniques as well as putting all that you have learned into a finished piece....arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

Learn the basics of halving joints, dovetails and mortice and tenon joints. Learn how to use the different tools necessary to do professional jointing techniques. arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom

This four day course will be catered to each individual students needs and is either a stand alone course or progression from previous weekend courses so if you wish to learn any of the following tool recognition sharpening techniques, Learning basic jointing techniques making...arts and crafts coursesin united kingdom