Corporate days out & team building courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

About the pebble mosaic course: Covid secure working practices are in place. Maximum number of 4 people per course at Olicana's workshop in central Ilkley. Learn how to create a stunning pebble mosaic that will provide a talking point for your garden from David James of Olicana Mosaics. You will be taken through all the steps involved in creating a square or circular or shell shaped pebble mosaic measuring 45cm/18inch square or in diameter. This will weigh about 20kg (45 lb). Time will be given to discuss materials, methods, tools...

This day course gives you the opportunity to explore this traditional craft. During the day you will make a 20cm square stained glass panel. This is a practical course where you learn the basic construction processes of cutting glass, putting a panel together with lead, soldering, cementing and finishing. There will be a choice of simple, non-representational designs and packs of glass provided by the tutor. All the other materials and tools you will need to create your panel are also provided. Due to time constraints, students will not be...

Traditional Blacksmithing one day tuition run by an award winning blacksmith with over 20 years hand forging experience. Students choose their own project to work on (within reason). Firebird forge is located in the heart of one of the oldest private estates in the south east and to the back of the forge is the woods where the stories of AA.Milne were set (The Hundred Acre Wood). The forge is in a 1500 square foot former dairy and has 6 individual forging stations with anvils and hand tools, along with...

A one day walking stick making course with Dave Jackson, learning the basic skills involved in making your own sticks. No experience needed but a willingness and ability to use hand tools is essential. Suitable for anyone with a bit of stick-making knowledge who would like to improve and learn some new tricks is also welcome. Everyone who attends learns how to straighten a stick, make a steel rod/pin to join the handle to the shank and use simple tools to carve and shape the handle and shank to a...

A one day spoon carving course with Dave Hutton learning the basic skills involved in spoon carving. No experience needed but a willingness and ability to use hand tools is essential. You will learn practical tips and techniques on: • considering different types of wood suitable for spoon carving. • different types of spoon carving tools (gouges and knives) used in greenwood craft, and how to use them. • cleaving greenwood logs into billets ready for using a froe and an axe. • using a shave horse and drawknife to...

Introduction to Greenwood Crafts course - 2 days - Saturday & Sunday with tutor Dave Jackson This two day course will introduce you to the traditional art of green wood craft. Green wood is freshly felled, still sappy wood. To work it requires a set of simple techniques based on an understanding of how wood reacts - both to the tools, and to the dry and shrinking process. The wood is soft and easy to work with hand tools and can utilise small trees and log with minimal wastage. It...

Tool Sharpening (green woodworking/carpentry tools)one day workshop with Tutor Dave Jackson A one day course learning the fundamentals of sharpening green woodworking tools i.e. axes, drawknives, billhooks, turning tools, chisels, slashers, planes, gouges, spoon knives and carving knives) You will learn practical tips and techniques on: • sharpening equipment for a variety of purposes • use of abrasives • use of abrasive wheels • use of grinding stones • how to keep tool in good, sharp working order • basic restoration techniques • PPE (personal protective equipment) selection and use...

On this rustic stool making one day course with Dave Jackson, you will learn how to make a simple 3 legged stool. You will leave with a unique completed square rustic stool made from oak, sycamore or ash and hazel (dependent upon timber stocks at the time of the course) You will learn practical tips and techniques on: • selection of timber • designing for strength and aesthetics • basic and correct use of saws, drills, bits, augers, tenon cutters and planes • use of holding tools to include vices,...

Blacksmithing day with tutors Iain Jones & Dave Southgate This one day course will introduce you to basic forging & blacksmithing techniques. You will make a small number or items which may include a letter opener, s or wall hook & fire poker You will learn practical tips & techniques on: • selecting metal • heat treating metal • basic forging techniques • basic finishing techniques • grinding • forming twists, curls & scrolls • drawing out metal • use of the anvil & hammers • annealing • shaping hot...

This one day Bladesmithing workshop with Iain Jones & Dave Southgate will introduce you the skills required to make a blade. It is useful, but not essential, if you have had some basic blacksmithing experience as you will be able to progress at s slightly more advanced level. You will learn practical tips & techniques on: • selecting metal • heat treating metal • basic forging techniques • basic finishing techniques • grinding • forming twists, curls & scrolls • drawing out metal • use of the anvil & hammers...