Craft Courses
NEW - On-line tuition available via 'Zoom' - please contact me for more details.
While Covid-19 restrictions remain in place, and changing rapidly, we have few formal courses planned. However on-line tuition is available and can be tailored to suit your level of expertise and cover the techniques you wish to learn. For example:
- Basic cutting - the "Window" method
- Borders & stringers
- Fine lines and other details
- Shading using hot sand, hot air and hot iron
- Parquetry patterns - such as Louis cube, basketweave, etc.
- Gameboards - chess, backgammon, ludo/uckers, etc.
- Veneering boxes
- Lining boxes
Examples of Previous Courses
- Introduction to Marquetry - basic techniques of pictorial marquetry
- Parquetry Patterns 1 - checkerboard and closed basket-weave
- Parquetry Patterns 2 - open basket-weave and Louis-cube
- Jewellery Workshop - simple designs for striking jewellery
- Further Marquetry Techniques - sand-shading, hot-air shading, fine-line detailing, fragmentation, etc.
Forthcoming Courses
Please note: in-person courses are under review due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Please consult the organisations' own websites for the current status and details of possible re-arrangements.
Monday 20 June 2022
Geometric Marquetry
Dovetail Woodworking, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1QQ
Pictorial Marquetry
Dovetail Woodworking, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1QQ
Course available by arrangement - minimum 2 persons
Friday 7 October 2022
Christmas Decorations & Jewellery
Ardington School of Craft, The Old School, School Road, Ardington, Oxfordshire, OX12 8PN
01235 833433
Course Details & Booking Form not yet available
