Rediscovering Traditional Skills

Forgotten Crafts Festival 2010We are planning a "Forgotten Crafts Festival" on Sunday October 3rd 2010 to take place in the stunning grounds of Mount Ephraim Gardens, in Kent, The Garden of England.  This will be an amazing event to ensure our traditional British crafts are passed on and not forgotten!

If you are a crafts person, and interested in attending the event to demonstrate your traditional skill, please do get in touch with us at EarthCraftuk and help us make this a very special and memorable event. We are looking for people who are passionate about the transferral of knowledge and would consider demonstrating their skill for free or in return for a stall selling their traiditional hand crafted products.

We are in the planning stages at the moment however, to generate interest, would be delighted to hear from anyone involved in any of the following areas:

Spinning • Weaving • Dry-stone Walling • Stone Fencing • Making Wattle Hurdles • Coppicing • Hedge Laying • Tree Felling • Milking a Cow • Shearing a Sheep • Using Herbal Remedies •Beekeeping • Harvesting • Haymaking • Milling • Tracking Animals • Making Bows and Arrows • Making Fishing Nets • Making Fishing Rods • Making Coracles • Game Preparation • Foraging for Wild Food • Brewing Beer • Making Cider • Making Butter • Making Cheese • Making Traditional Sweets • Making Jam & Marmalade • Pickling • Smoking • Making Soap • Making Candles • Making Oil Lamps • Making Besom Brooms • Trug Making • Handmade Paper • Making Corn Dollies • Coopering • Wheelwrighting • Basket Making • Bone, Antler & Horn Working • Whittling • Charcoal Burning • Bee Keeping • Making Walking Sticks and Shepherds Crooks • Quilting •Tanning & Working with Leather • Green Woodworking & Pole Lathe Turning • Building with Wattle & Daub • Thatching • Kitchen Gardening • Saddlery • Blacksmithing & Farriery • Making Weather Vanes & Weathercocks • Making Rope • Making Rabbit Nets • Making Rag Rugs •Making Clay Pipes • Pargetting • Making Whistles & Flutes • Stonemasonry • Making Bobbin Lace • Tatting & Smocking • Chair Making • Hedge Laying • Rustic Green Wood Furniture • Spoon Carving • Canal Boat Painting • Making Stained Glass • Glass Blowing • Natural Dyeing • Bookbinding • Shetland Knitting • Coppice Crafts • Rushwork • Clock Making • Traditional Toy Making • Scrimshaw Work • Wood Carving • Story Telling • Traditional Beading • Calligraphy • Hand Block Printing • Gilding • Kitchen Crafts • and there may be a few more!!!!!

If you are a crafts person with any of these wonderful skills and wish to take part - at the moment, we are gathering details of interested people and we would love to hear from you - please drop us an email at info@earthcraftuk.com


 

 

in Kent, The Garden of England