Heritage Craft Workshops

Craft: Stone carving

Leader: Alan Micklethwaite

Cost: £80

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

Over the past two decades Alan Micklethwaite has established his reputation as one of the country’s finest stone carvers. His diverse portfolio, featuring both contemporary and traditional figurative work, demonstrates an intuitive understanding of materials and techniques.

Be inspired by the carvings around the Minster and create your own piece of stone sculpture. Alan will teach and guide you through all the techniques needed to carve a pattern of your choice into a block of Tadcaster limestone to take away with you. All tools and materials provided, no previous experience needed.

FULLY BOOKED

Craft: Bobbin Lace Making

Leader: Frances

Cost: £40 (for the 6 week course)

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Venue: Peter Harrison Room.

Bobbin Lacemaking was first produced in the time of Elizabeth I; an age old craft which needs to be kept alive.

Frances has been making lace since 1967 and teaching for Adult Education since 1984. She runs classes in Hessle, Pocklington, Beeford, Hedon, Bridlington, and Hornsea with Autumn, Spring and Summer terms. She is also Chairperson of the East Yorkshire Lace Society. 

We are offering a session of 6 classes on Wednesday 13 , 20, 27 September and 4, 11, 18 October.

All equipment will be provided. Over the six weeks you will be taken through all the basic techniques.

Craft: Quilling

Leader: Jane Jenkins

Cost: £20

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. 

Quilling is the art of Paper Filigree.  Strips of paper are rolled, curled, looped and otherwise manipulated to create beautiful and intriguing designs to decorate greetings cards, pictures, boxes, models, eggs and more.  Quilling is easy to learn, fun to do and impressive to look at.

In this workshop, we will learn the six basic quilling techniques while making three pretty greetings cards.  All your materials are provided.  You just need to bring a pair of bathroom tweezers and some fine scissors.

Craft: Gold Leaf Gilding

Leader: Rob Oldfield

Cost: £50

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

Rob Oldfield is a gilder, typographer and educator, with nearly forty years’ experience working in museums and historic interiors. He recognizes the importance of crafts like gilding and he has a desire to pass on his knowledge so that it does not become yet another ‘forgotten art’ in an increasingly digital world.

Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold to solid surfaces. The effect is beautiful and this is a rare opportunity to learn it yourself.

Using real gold leaf, Rob will teach you the techniques of gold leaf gilding and guide you through to your finished piece of work to take away. Includes a tour of the Minster spotting different types of gilding. All tools and materials will be provided but if you have a small item (palm sized) that you would like to bring to gild then you are welcome to. No previous experience needed.

Craft: Wood carving

Leader: Allen Stichler

Cost: £70

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

Allen Stichler is a Lincolnshire based timber artist specialising in unique hand carved sculptures and with a wealth of experience in leading workshops.

Allen will teach you the techniques needed to carve a pattern of your choice into a block of wood. He will guide you through the process and you will leave with your own piece of art and a set of new skills. All tools and materials provided, no previous experience necessary.

FULLY BOOKED

Craft: Book binding

Leader: Emma Lloyd-Jones

Cost: £50

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

Three Simple Bindings – this is an introduction to bookbinding & you will make three simple bindings to take away with you. This session is suitable for beginners. Materials will be provided. Emma will suggest household items you can use to continue making books at home.

Emma Lloyd-Jones is a book & paper conservator with 35 years’ experience working in libraries & archives. She has been freelance for the past 10 years working for national institutions & private clients.

Craft: Sketching

Leader: Rob Oldfield

Cost: £40

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. 

Use your time to hone your sketching skills, chat with fellow art appreciators or simply indulge your creativity in a calm, inspiring atmosphere. There will be no judging of people’s work, this is meant to be a nice safe chilled atmosphere to draw in an amazing location with fellow sketching enthusiasts. The workshop will be informal and supportive and is appropriate for all levels.

Rob has been running drawing classes for many years, and will circulate to encourage, advise and listen so please take advantage of his skills and experience. After the event, if anyone would like to share their work they are more than welcome to get sketch books out and discuss and share skills and tips.

Please bring a sketch book (maybe one that you make at January’s Bookbinding workshop) and a foldaway chair is often a good idea.