tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50012826244802877742024-03-13T14:46:52.347+00:00Greenwood WomanThe adventures of a greenwood worker, artist and craft maker in England.. making things from the woods, wool, with hand tools and an eye for design.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-44008328285789968402012-08-15T13:03:00.001+01:002012-08-15T13:04:33.711+01:00Collective Spirit - a beautiful boat<br />
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Read and see more about the project at <a href="http://www.theboatproject.com/" target="_blank">www.theboatproject.com</a><br />
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My first time at Woolfest in Cockermouth, Cumbria was very exciting and full of people into wool, sheep, textiles, fibre, felting, spinning, dyeing and colour.. a creative bunch too.<br />
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Here I did one of my Weaving with Nature workshops, which was very well received by florists, teachers, children and fibre artists inspired by colour, texture and pattern. <br /><br />I also managed to get around the show on the last hour of the weekend, and not spend very much, (thankfully). <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bIP55OhD_qY/T_9E5sBumCI/AAAAAAAABXI/Z5ZQjX-2ero/s1600/DSCN0136.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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Coppice workshops with Charlie Whinney in February 2012. Since that
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Riving oak is not an easy thing to do, as it first involves boiling the
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Here are the final photos of some very nice outdoor sculptural benches made at
Clissett Wood last week (End of May 2012) on which I was assisting in the workshop. I hope my sense of humour
didn't upset anyone! Most of the benches are made from Oak and Sweet
Chestnut for outdoor use. We were sweating away in the searing heat of the workshop and drinking pints of water to stay cool! Gudrun was in her element with this freeform course, it's one of my favourite courses for the variety of ideas that are tried out.<br />
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<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-74356457100124277392012-05-11T16:05:00.000+01:002012-06-15T16:11:38.760+01:00Environmental Arts WorkshopsOver the spring I was asked to run a series of Environmental Arts workshops by Wrexham BTCV. These workshops were aimed at Unemployed women across Denbighshire and we ended up working on 2 sites, one in Denbigh and one at <a href="http://www.bodelwyddan-castle.co.uk/woodland.html" target="_blank">Bodelwyddan Castle</a> for 5 days each. <br />
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PRINTMAKING </b>with woodland leaves and flowers to explore their intricate designs and create our own patterns and prints.<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: -5px; position: relative;"><b><br />
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I designed a task to create a woodland xylophone from greenwood. This workshop was intended to give lots of taster experiences using different techniques in greenwood working such as splitting logs down </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: -5px; position: relative;">into posts </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: -5px; position: relative;">with mallets and wedges, </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: -5px; position: relative;">using an axe to shape wood, </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: -5px; position: relative;">using a shave horse and </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;">drawknife, searching for suitable materials</span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;"> such as hazel in the woodland, drilling and constructing all using hand tools and building team work. <br />
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</b></span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;">This workshop gave an overview of sheep wools, from raw fleece to the washing process and looking at the colours we can get from natural dyes. We then made some decorative felted soaps and felted stones (for doorstops or paper weights). We got very soapy! </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;"><br />
</span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S1kr1a9t4No/T9s79V-mC9I/AAAAAAAABRo/Dcx1QYeO9p8/s1600/feltmaking04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;">Afterwards we made felted pots, berets or purses with a different felting technique. Sometimes the rain came down, our Denbigh site was quite exposed place to work..but they were a hardy bunch spurred on by cups of BTCV tea and biscuits!<br />
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This session involved creating giant cobwebs in the trees by wrapping spun wool and yarn into a web shape. Our willow insects were created by finding forked branches to make legs, then wrapping and weaving willow to create body and wing shapes.<b> </b><br />
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Here we sketched using charcoal, ink and sticks in the woodland, recording sounds, views and feelings in the environment. The group at <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="left: 0px; position: relative;">Bodelwyddan Castle were asked to camouflage a works container using only 2 colours! I asked the group to collect leaves and take inspiration from these for camouflage patterns. There is an abundance of Wild Garlic in the wood and one of the group decided to carry on this theme... </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P7Gy_iWk_Pc/T9tKM81EpGI/AAAAAAAABSI/SMGUDB-2QmU/s1600/charcoal_drawing01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P7Gy_iWk_Pc/T9tKM81EpGI/AAAAAAAABSI/SMGUDB-2QmU/s320/charcoal_drawing01.jpg" width="300" /></a>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-55318952632063356582012-02-29T12:56:00.000+00:002012-06-15T13:24:54.204+01:00New Greenwood Scheme - the beginnings of a new movement?<a href="https://www.facebook.com/grizedale.arts" target="_blank"></a><br />
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Last weekend, a group of coppice workers and designers came together in a creative melting pot at Charlie Whinney's workshop in Cumbria to think, design and make using greenwood working techniques. Our aim was to thrust our skills and knowledge as greenwood workers into the contemporary market, bringing our craft bang up to date with modern design items suitable for the high end market. Ambitious? Absolutely! </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-028-UQIGNo4/T04l7k8QnFI/AAAAAAAABME/yTk58nw4WsU/s1600/outdoorworkshop.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-028-UQIGNo4/T04l7k8QnFI/AAAAAAAABME/yTk58nw4WsU/s200/outdoorworkshop.jpg" width="200" /></a>On day two the designers arrived, we had introductions to everyone and their work, and then mixed into groups and given the 1/2 hour jam jar challenge by Charlie. Make something contemporary with greenwood, utilizing a jam jar! <br />
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Later that day we went to a conference at Blackwell Arts and Craft’s house in
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Talks were by Kathy Haslam, curator at Blackwell on the
politics of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Ray Leigh on Gordon Russell and the
Utility Scheme and key note speech by the designer Michael
Marriott added to our own discussions on design and the coppice movement. Later that evening we all enjoyed an impressive meal courtesy of our hosts who own the Witherslack estate. Some of the party got a bit merry!</div>
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On day three and four we finally began work on our various designs using different greenwood materials and techniques, not all were successful and some ideas evolved through the process. The designers left us to work on our ideas having been inspired by the materials and scope of possibilities. </div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here are a few photos taken by Maria, the wonderful organizer from </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grizedale.arts" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">Grizedale Arts</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">. There were an awful lot more design ideas and prototypes which are not shown here...so watch this space! It is hoped that the final designs will form part of a contemporary greenwood pattern book so that other greenwood workers can make these items too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There will be an exhibition of this work and hopefully a lot more will come out of this. We all found it highly beneficial as greenwood workers coming together, inspiring each other as designer/makers and seeing the potential of our craft. Hopefully, we can begin to push our craft into the contemporary market, offering a sustainable and intelligent alternative to plastic, throw away, mass produced consumer products. </span><br />
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These wooden potato mashers and porridge spurtles were commissioned by an elderly Scottish chap looking to give presents to his family. I made 7 of each as requested.<br />
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The design of the potato masher was described to me, and luckily I managed to see a nice example (no touching allowed mind you), in the Welsh Museum of Rural Life just before I started to make them. The green wood I used was fresh maple, some lovely green tinged cherry, and a whiter cherry. I turned a variety of handle shapes and mashing ends as the wood allowed on the pole lathe. All are approximately 18" tall. The mashing ends are about 3" diameter.<br />
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They would probably also be useful for tenderizing your nearest and dearest in the kitchen. (Joke)<br />
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The design of the porridge spurtle was a copy of his own that he'd used for the last 40 years. He made porridge every day, or every other day, letting it rest - I can't remember which. His own spurtle had worn down 1" shorter than it should have been, and so his hand was getting too close to the cooking pot.<br />
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The practical feature of this design is that the ball rests comfortably
above your hand, as if holding a pen. He also insisted that the ends
should taper. I made a variety of designs as the wood dictated. Five
were turned from pear wood and another three from cherry.<br />
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One of the pear spurtles had a peculiar kink at the top when it dried out, since the thin point above the ball sat on a knot. I had meant to keep this one for myself but somehow he ended up getting a bonus spurtle. Lucky old him! <br />
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Everything was burnished with greenwood shavings from the lathe and oiled with culinary linseed oil a few times. I was very pleased with the finished work.<br />
<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-90005486969440176312012-01-14T14:08:00.002+00:002012-02-29T12:33:26.072+00:00Contemporary coppice workshops<div style="text-align: right;">
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I'm very excited to have a place on these workshops, it should be a great start to the year!<br />
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An exciting new series of workshops and talks <span style="font-family: Calibri;">in February 2012 bringing together coppice workers, green
woodworkers and designers to create some new ‘contemporary coppice products’. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This event in Cumbria is
organised by Grizedale Arts and is led by award-winning artist Charlie Whinney
who will offer his unique steam-bending skills to attendees of the practical
workshop. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>1 day Conference</b> - Saturday
18<sup>th</sup> February 10am-5pm at Blackwell Arts and Craft’s house in
Windermere, Cumbria. With talks by Kathy Haslam, curator at Blackwell on the
politics of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Ray Leigh on Gordon Russell and the
Utility Scheme and key note speech by the renowned designer Michael
Marriott.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>4 day Practical workshop</b> – Friday
17<sup>th</sup> to Tuesday 21<sup>st</sup> February. There is a limited number
of spaces available – if you are want to make an interesting career out of using
</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5001282624480287774" target="_blank"> </a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">coppice or green wood this
will be invaluable. You will spend
time alongside award-winning product designers including Michael Marriott and
renowned local coppice workers including Owen Jones and Matt Turley. You will also no doubt learn a lot about
steam-bending, different making techniques, and a chance to share skills and
ideas with other makers and designers.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Visit </span><a href="http://www.newgreenwoodwork.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.newgreenwoodwork.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> or </span><a href="http://www.grizedalearts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.grizedale.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> after the
event. The new designs will be made
available online, and we will also put up photos and videos of how we got
on. Also if you have any photos of
interesting uses of coppice or particularly beautiful green woodwork please send
me your photos ASAP as they will be really helpful and we can share them
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>2 day Practical workshop - </b>Saturday 25<sup>th</sup> and
Sunday 26<sup>th</sup> February. A weekend workshop on Brantwood Estate in
Coniston, from the cutting of coppice wood to finished product.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span>Visit <a href="http://www.newgreenwoodwork.com/" target="_blank">www.newgreenwoodwork.com</a> for more information.<br />
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This week I've had some time at home spinning and weaving up some of my natural dyed wool. I have a new country spinner spinning wheel with a massive 2lb bobbin, which is very impressive indeed, and has made me a very, very happy lady! Ha ha<br />
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My cushions are handspun, using natural plant dyed wool and hand woven on a small loom.<br />
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Here are some picture of some cushions I've made which I sell from <b style="color: #741b47;"><i><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenwoodWoman" target="_blank">my Etsy Shop<br /></a></i></b><br />
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Four classes of 25 at Belle Vue Primary spent an hour each learning a different weaving technique with natural materials and willow, making an individual item to take home. Their term had started with a letter from Lord Locksley asking for a band of men to join him. My half-term activity was to help them make something nice to give to Maid Marion, made from natural materials. Each class made different items so the teachers could swap techniques later on.<br />
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At Blandford Mere Primary School we had two consecutive days to work on a project. I was asked if the children could make things to put in their new school corridor, so I suggested making bug sculptures - insects, flies, bees.<br />
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After an introductory talk and questions at assembly, three classes of 30 pupils spent an hour on both days with me creating woodland insect sculptures using fresh willow and other natural materials including natural dyed sheep wool, leaves, sticks etc..<br />
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They learned how to strip the leaves off the willow and bend it to the shapes they needed to make wings and body shapes, decorating these on the second day.
It was a learning curve for both me and the children, as they got to grips with the nature of the materials - and I raced about helping their sculptures take shape.<br />
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Most of the children were very excited about the activity and I think it was quite a challenge for them on many levels. I hope they got a lot out of it. It was great to be able to use my artistic and practical woodland knowledge with so many young people.<br />
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If you are interested in having a school workshop. I am happy to devise a suitable activity for your class. Please contact me to discuss details and costs. I am currently working across the Midlands. I'm hoping for pictures of the school displays to arrive for this blog post soon.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0Stourbridge, Dudley, UK52.448577699999987 -2.1812939999999825.215523199999986 -61.94691899999998 79.6816322 57.58433100000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-45828346135751868602011-10-28T13:39:00.001+01:002011-11-09T13:42:44.979+00:00Colours from Nature - natural dyes, wool and weaving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been back at my spinning wheel again in readiness for the winter nights, a pleasure that seems to return every year when the weather changes. Over the last few years I have been learning to spin and to use natural dyes. The process of collecting colour from the wild, just like foraging is a lovely rewarding activity. It keeps
you in contact with the seasons by collecting your own plant materials, leaves, flowers, berries or bark when the time is right.<br />
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Before this summer ended, I wanted to create some new natural colours to add to my wool stash for the winter. I've totally avoided the synthetic dyes as they just seem so harsh and tend to shout so much. Natural colours always blend well with each other and I like having the direct link back to their natural source too.<br />
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2.Guelder rose berries - pink/yellow. <br />
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5. Mohair dyed with buddleia leaf makes yellow.</td></tr>
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Winter seems to be the natural time
when the knitting and spinning really gets going for me. With all those
long evenings what else would I be doing! (apart from whittling)..
Anyway, a month or so ago I had mordanted some sheep wool with Alum at home. Alum and other mordants like Chrome, Iron and Oxalic Acid help to achieve stronger
colour shades where the normal sheep fleece doesn't pick up the dye. I collected various plant materials that were available in the wood and had a few dying sessions with a pot over the fire. <br />
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Finally after a few years of trial and error I am
happy to be getting much better and consistent results. It is a time
consuming processing, so this is very satisfying progress indeed!<br />
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People ask me 'Where do I get my sheep fleece?' - It's £5 per fleece from most farmers, is the answer. I brought 5 sheep fleece this summer from www.sheersheep.co.uk who were demonstrating sheering at Letchworth Arts Festival. One fleece was a super coarse pure white Rams wool - a brilliant wiry contrasting wool to any of the soft lambs wool I'd also bought.<br />
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It took two solid days of skirting, washing and drying those five fleece plus a few other Zwartbles (black fleece) on a sunny weekend. This has given me plenty of cheap material to work with over the winter. Only problem is storage usually, but a shed or greenhouse to store the fleece in over winter is fine.<br />
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After washing and drying the wool I either mordant and/ or dye it. Then comes the nice bit where I card it on my drum carder to clean out any further bits and start selecting colours to blend together. It's like creating a palette to work with.<br />
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Depending on what I want to do - either spin all one colour - or have a crazy mix of colours I create 'batts' of different colourways and textures with different types of fleece to create very different yarns. Mixing natural dyed wool with the natural sheep colours - grey, whites and blacks enables all sorts of variations to be achieved.<br />
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Spinning is more interesting when you see the colours and textures change through your fingers. Every piece of wool goes through my hands at least four times before it becomes a finished item - a knitted hat, a scarf, a blanket. That really does make it handmade.<br />
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I usually make scarves from the softest Wensleydale yarns, and for most of the rest I'm putting it into handmade blankets, ponchos and shawls. It's a slow process, one blanket can take a week to make, but the whole process from sheep to shawl is a great process to know how to do and makes my final work feel like something truly special.<br />
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Some coloured wools go towards my 'Weaving with Nature' workshop stash - and this is great to show people at festivals just how beautiful natural colours are.<br />
<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-5198681703692092942011-08-27T20:03:00.000+01:002011-11-27T20:05:26.131+00:00Oak garden planter<br />
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just enough to finish this. All the joints are slotted and pegged
together, following the rough design and size of the old planter it was
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however - showing off the curves of the oak a little. It should last
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This summer, Martin and myself were asked to construct a hazel panel as part of a garden redesign. The hazel panel would attract the eye as you walked through the garden and screen a sloping section of wall behind it. It would also be used to support climbing plants.<br />
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We made a free standing 6ft x 6ft oak frame, bedded into the ground at a depth of 2ft. Martin had sourced a lovely straight green oak log just by chance for £50 from a local timber merchant and we set about splitting it with axes and wedges. It's a lot of fun and is surprisingly easy to do with a little welly!<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQZzYz9fdjA/TrpKn2GSa0I/AAAAAAAAA2Y/ursHrIRf9AA/s1600/liz_oakframe_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQZzYz9fdjA/TrpKn2GSa0I/AAAAAAAAA2Y/ursHrIRf9AA/s200/liz_oakframe_02.jpg" width="200" /></a>We split the log into about eight sections, each sufficient for a post -
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rail, choosing the lighter one for the top cross piece. By securing the
pieces in the cleaving break we cleaned the faces of the oak posts up
with a draw knife.<br />
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over for Martin to make a slatted bench too - albeit the most
uncomfortable bench anyone could ever sit on (not my words!) and I made
an oak planter.<br />
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The hazel for the panel came from Martins' new coppice at Manor Farm Burton Overy, Leicestershire. A yound wood planted only 11 years ago, - if you look back at previous blog posts you can see us coppicing the hazel last winter. I wove the hazel right to the top and we were done! What a nice job!<br />
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Around the rest of the garden I was asked to stake and bind a hedge planted around five years ago. The effect the owners wanted to achieve was to 'define' the garden with a boundary line. This worked well and set off the style of cottage planting. You can see this hedge on the right of this photo.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ac0OHSmhT4c/TrqHhDr8PLI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/LkGGvMm5GAs/s1600/children_hayrake01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ac0OHSmhT4c/TrqHhDr8PLI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/LkGGvMm5GAs/s200/children_hayrake01.jpg" width="200" /></a>I learnt to make hay rakes this year, partly because of an order for 5
children sized hay rakes from the Great Glen Community Wildspace group
in Leicester.<br />
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I made the handles from ash and sallow,
all in slightly different designs because there is more sallow than
usable ash in the new wood. Some have forked branches which I thought
would be naturally strong, they seemed to work fine.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GwLgCLiF6BM/TrqHoZie-oI/AAAAAAAAA4g/P6mme9pEE7g/s1600/adult_hayrake01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GwLgCLiF6BM/TrqHoZie-oI/AAAAAAAAA4g/P6mme9pEE7g/s200/adult_hayrake01.jpg" width="200" /></a>I used dried silver birch for the tines or teeth - bashing the roughed
out dowels through a tine cutter of 11mm to make clean dowels. The tines
are set in at approx 1.5" to 2" spacing across the green ash head and
flats are put on the backs so the tines don't split.<br />
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drilled into the head at a 70 degree angle to make a good rake, making
sure you get this the right way up! Wedges hold the handle onto the head
so it was solid. After doing a set of rakes the process became easier,
but like most things not tried before there was some head scratching at
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All full test of the adult sized hay rakes proved they worked great. Martin spent many hours in the mornings mowing the rides with his scythe and the hay rakes did their job well. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is my summer exhibition of contemporary plein air watercolour landscapes, some of which can be seen on my website at <b style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.elizabethcadd.co.uk/" target="blank">www.elizabethcadd.co.uk</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The exhibition continues from
<b>30th July - 12th September 2011.</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All welcome, it would be lovely to see you all!</span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-28073898823106520142011-07-05T11:41:00.000+01:002017-09-25T13:50:58.130+01:00Letchworth Arts Festival - 'Weave with Nature' workshop<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O6F20Nq_S1s/ThLkaREljII/AAAAAAAAA1Y/Cmwyk-GFEGU/s1600/weavewithnature_ladies03s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O6F20Nq_S1s/ThLkaREljII/AAAAAAAAA1Y/Cmwyk-GFEGU/s320/weavewithnature_ladies03s.jpg" width="299" /></a>Just spent a fab weekend at Letchworth Arts Festival doing a new workshop I've devised call 'Weave with Nature'. It ticks all my boxes - bringing greenwood, natural materials, colour and a good organic measure of creativity into the mix. The idea of this workshop is to encourage people to get into natural materials, and enjoy natural fibres, plants, textures and colours. I am basically providing a creative space for people to play and explore.<br />
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It's a 'hands on' activity for all kids and adults of all ages using natural
materials to weave a 'freeform' weaving. This informal activity encourages
people to engage with natural materials in a creative way.<br />
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I provide a few
free standing upright panels which I warp to provide weaving spaces for a
communal artwork. Into these people can weave sticks, leaves, flowers, herbs,
grasses, washed sheep wools (some dyed with natural dyes), seed pods and
anything that I have collected that morning from the surrounding area.
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It makes a very nice seasonal activity which grows into an
artwork over the day as people add to it. People can join in and stay for
however long they like.Alternatively people can make their
own natural weaving on a forked stick frame to take away with them.
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It is a useful educational tool to discuss where things like wool comes
from, or what plants make a natural dye colour, what plants smell and feel
like etc..as well as playing with colour and pattern.
Many people said they were inspired by the idea to go away and try this at
home (which is what I was hoping for), and the effect with the natural
materials was also delightful. It was great to see the kids walking around
the festival with their own natural weaving artwork, which brought other
kids in looking to make their own.
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or outdoors and will reflect the seasons.
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If you are interested in booking this workshop or would like me to devise
another similar activity, please contact me at art@elizabethcadd.co.uk<br /><br />Tel 07583635994.<br />
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I am based near Ellesmere, North Shropshire and can travel. <br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6Wa7wn4CL8/ThLlYd4JScI/AAAAAAAAA1k/tS9eDGx6dc8/s1600/weavewithnature_2boys_s.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6Wa7wn4CL8/ThLlYd4JScI/AAAAAAAAA1k/tS9eDGx6dc8/s200/weavewithnature_2boys_s.jpg" width="200" /></a>There is a flat rate charge to the organizer per day to cover all materials that might be
used. If you wish to keep the panels of artworks as a legacy of the day
they can also be purchased for a small fee - this primarily covers the
cost of making the rustic frames.
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<br /><br />Both are for sale plus other items like my bowls, handspun yarns, weavings and blanket in my Etsy shop at <b style="color: #e69138;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/lizziebean" target="blank">www.etsy.com/shop/lizziebean </a></b><br />
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The 'Armadillo' is a woodland hut, it was built by volunteers at
Clissett Wood in Herefordshire, England for people to stay in when
greenwood chair making courses are running. <br />
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The frame of the hut is
built from sweet chestnut in the round and is dug into the clay bank. It
has a shingle roof and a larch sleeping platform inside. In April 2011
Sheila Wynter, a basket maker from Stroud and myself (artist Elizabeth Cadd)
worked on re-fronting the structure with coloured willows. Instead of
doing traditional rectangle woven panels we decided to go a bit freeform
to make use of the organic shapes.<br />
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We used coppiced materials
from the sustainably managed surrounding woodland. Hazel poles create
the framework to weave through, and different willows created
contrasting panels of colour and texture. <br />
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We will be building a similar 'play hut in Sheilas garden this spring for her grandchildren (she is 80 this year)!<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />More photos of this Development Week 2011 <br />at Clissett Wood, Herefordshire on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/group.php?gid=374450289283"><b><br />Clissett Wood Facebook Group</b></a></span><br />
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<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-84929263976447086922011-04-17T21:06:00.000+01:002011-04-17T21:06:21.977+01:00New posts.. about old news ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An article about Tool Forging with Ben Orford I did back in November 2010 <a href="http://greenwoodwoman.blogspot.com/2011/04/tool-forging-with-ben-orford.html">HERE</a> (just about when my blogging started to slip...I'm catching up now!.)Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-15742710904120818932011-04-17T18:58:00.000+01:002011-04-17T18:58:59.174+01:00Turning a few bowls<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-73642101466511332112011-04-07T14:14:00.001+01:002011-04-07T14:14:59.696+01:00Bodging Milano<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bodging Milano designers have a new website up telling the tales of their chair making escapades. Here are the greenwood chairs made at Clissett Wood on show in Milan.<br />
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More to see at <a href="http://www.bodgingmilano.co.uk/">www.bodgingmilano.co.uk</a> , including a picture of my quiche if you can spot it.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001282624480287774.post-657683467061099712011-03-30T11:41:00.000+01:002011-04-05T11:43:28.693+01:00LANTRA Women and Work Awards 2010/11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">In October last year I received £450 from LANTRA's Women and Work grant scheme to do some training to improve my skills in forestry. I did courses in Sustainable Woodland Management, Ride Management, Social Forestry and blacksmithing. Last week Lantra celebrated the achievements of women
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />From the 5000 women who participated in the Women and Work scheme, winners in the field of Horticulture, Trees & Timber, Landscaping, Game & Wildlife Management, Environmental Conservation and Agriculture were: Jasmine Bellinger, Nicki
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Annabel Foskett. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-964j-m9K2P4/TZrxlMJhS2I/AAAAAAAAAvk/UhliJ6iTP-4/s1600/victoria_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-964j-m9K2P4/TZrxlMJhS2I/AAAAAAAAAvk/UhliJ6iTP-4/s200/victoria_s.jpg" width="173" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;">Any women interested in applying for a grant to aid their learning in the above industries during 2011 should contact <a href="http://www.angelakimberley.co.uk/women-and-work/">www.angelakimberley.co.uk/women-and-work/</a> for more info.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the very glamourous Victoria Forsyth - farm labourer and tractor driver, who not only won the Agriculture Women and Work
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It is still very basic, but you can have a little tour of the inside now. The bunk with my patchwork bolsters makes it a cosy place to sleep at night, whilst the stove manages to boil the kettle in about an hour with some persuasion.Yes, that'll slow down the pace of life a little... we might be looking for a new kettle with a super flat bottom at this rate. <br />
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There is a distinct lack of storage at the moment, but with some pottering about I'm sure that will develop. Most importantly is where to put the special whisky and chocolate cupboard. Well what else should I eat and drink down here?<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UTi0CgCUn3g/TZRqodl0AcI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/h2NbVGwZ0ds/s1600/P1010029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UTi0CgCUn3g/TZRqodl0AcI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/h2NbVGwZ0ds/s200/P1010029.JPG" width="200" /></a>On a more essential note, we dug a compost toilet in the wood between some cherry trees and built a screen around it. The toilet still needs a seat with a hole in it for the 'you know whats' but it will make a visit to the wagon so much more... relaxing?Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080696075864948039noreply@blogger.com5