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Category Archives: SteveTomlinCrafts
Fan Bird carving at Elvaston Wood Fest
Elvaston Castle Wood Festival is probably one of the best shows in the country for seeing top-class craft in action and I’m always thrilled to be invited to demonstrate there. This year I was showing visitors how to carve fan … Continue reading
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Tagged craft, Elvaston, fan bird, green wood
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Exhibition at Sprint Mill
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Tagged 2013, C-Art, chair, cumbria, greenwood
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Request for Chair-making memories
Jennie Alexander has asked me to see if I can help her trace any of the people and details of a green wood chair making course she taught there as John Alexander. If you were there or have any information … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged Alexander, chair, green wood, handmade, Jennie, John
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Carved serving spoons
I’m working my way through a pile of crooked branches that I collected earlier in the year and carving them into serving spoons and ladles. You can predict to some extent how a green wood crook will split but you’re … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged cherry, crook, damson, green wood, hand carved, handmade, ladle, serving, spoon
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Wooden Spoons at the Hilton Hotel
At the beginning of the month I was invited to the Royal Warrantholders Annual Luncheon to receive my award as a Queen Elizabeth Craft Scholar and present my work in the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London. QEST is … Continue reading
Spoon Carving in Scotland
I’m teaching loads of courses at the moment (woodworking or scything) which is getting me out and about around the area. Over the bank holiday I went up to Dalbeattie at the request of Gavin Phillips to teach spoon carving … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged course, green wood, greenwoodwork course, learn, Scotland
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Fan Bird Carving Course
I’ve had a brilliant day teaching a group how to make fan birds. This is the third time I’ve taught fan bird carving at my workshop in Cumbria and I’ve made some modifications to the way I teach which really … Continue reading
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Tagged course, fan bird, green wood, greenwoodwork course, learn, UK, workshop
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Spooncarving Course in Scotland
I have been invited teach a spoon carving course in Dalbeattie on 25 & 26 May 2013. With my recent trip to Sweden I’m full of ideas and inspiration on spoon carving and really enjoying my own carving as well as the … Continue reading
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Tagged carving, course, green wood, Scotland, spoon, UK
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Spoon carving in Wales
I arrived back from Sweden last thursday and was straight off to the Woodland Skills Centre in North Wales to teach a spoon carving course for the weekend. They were a lovely bunch of folk and it’s always a pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, carving, course, green wood, greenwoodwork course, left hand, spoon, UK, Wales, Woodland Skills Centre, workshop
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Snapshots from the V&A
As a craftsman, I can’t go to London and not visit the V&A so I was pleased to have a couple of hours in there before my QEST interview, helped calm my nerves to see all that great work from … Continue reading
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Tagged chair, Ford Hallam, London, museum, Superleggera, Thonet, V&A
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