Join the Moor than meets the eye team for a FREE workshop with local artist Bridget Arnold to learn some of the skills and techniques needed to make fabric flags and banners.
The workshop will look at inspiration, design, materials and construction. By the end of the workshop you will have tried your hand at some of the skills and techniques involved and created a banner representing Dartmoor’s heritage which will be used across the Moor than meets the eye scheme.
As part of the workshop you will also make a pennant using all the techniques learned, to take away with you.
Andy Bailey, Moor than meets the eye Community Officer, said: Flags and banners are a great way to advertise and promote your heritage projects. Taking an arts approach can draw people in and help the whole community take part and learn about heritage through the process of creating artwork.
Moor than meets the eye are also looking for volunteers to help carry the finished banner at an event to mark the first year of the scheme on July 14 this year.
The workshop is free and all materials and equipment will be provided. Due to the popularity of these events it is essential that you book your place. Please contact Andy on 01822 890903 or email andy@moorthanmeetstheeye.org
Moor than meets the eye is a Heritage Lottery Funded scheme which is helping people to discover the Dartmoor Story. Photo of Bridget Arnold taken by Mei Lim Photographer
Freehand is a new exhibition of inspirational craftwork made by local young people and adults in workshops run by the Devon Guild, during 2014-15
Exhibition runs until Sunday 5 July.
The gallery will show objects made in a series of community workshops by Guild makers and artists, who worked with children and young people supported by social services and with complex needs, older people living in supported communities, refugees, adults with learning disabilities and prisoners from HMP Dartmoor. Together they have produced truly inspirational work including large paper mache...
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The events will pass on skills and ideas to keep bicycles, electrical goods, furniture, clothes and other textiles from going to waste.
The initial series of workshops will focus on repair and maintenance of bicycles intending to help people bring a long, forgotten bike back into use that might otherwise have ended up being scrapped.
The events will be run by Exeter cycling charity, Ride On and will be based on...
Our newest workshop will teach you everything you need to know to make one lovely zip purse. A perfect size for a make-up case, pencil case - whatever you need! You'll learn lots of dressmaking skills, including pattern cutting, interfacing, and of course - zip insertion!
The workshop is £25 per person, which includes all of your materials.
Upcoming dates are Thursday 9th April, 6pm to 8.30pm, and Thursday 7th May, 6pm to 8.30pm.
InnovateWest invites ambitious entrepreneurs to Dartington Hall on 29th January 2014 to discover the radical business management methodology 'lean start-up'.
Ready! Fire! Aim! is an intense, hands-on, one-day workshop that demonstrates the strength of doing over deliberating and experimenting over estimating.
Utilising the latest thinking, local case studies and the power of peer-to-peer collaboration participants will acquire lean start-up skills, increase business awareness and take-away resources to use back at the coalface.
We’re really excited to announce more dates for our DIY Skirt Class!
This class is 100% suitable for beginners – come and guzzle tea and learn to sew the uncomplicated, casual Otton’s way. You’ll leave the class with one fully finished skirt to wear, and the know how to do it again and again.
The dates for this course are Thursday 19th March, 6pm to 8.30pm, and Tuesday 21st April, 6pm to 8.30pm, and Thursday 28th May, 6pm to 8.30pm.. The class will cost you £25, which includes everything except your fabric – bring your a metre of your own or buy some from us on the night...