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Craft Field

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Craft Field

 

 

 

The Greencrafts Field

 

 

The Greencrafts Field offers a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience of raw elemental force.

 

Craft that’s jaw droppingly full-on & fabulous!

 

Some of the best people in the county have gathered to offer you an amazing chance to get involved in contemporary craft – to have a go yourself in a blindingly vibrant setting.

 

A warm welcome will greet you daily in the field, where a massive array of craftspeople have set up personal camps to hold their workshops in: beautiful yurts, tipis, domes, wagons and coloured canvas tents. An open invite is extended to you, with over 50 hands-on craft workshops to choose between. The field gets up early & works till late & you’ll feel the pounding energy and spirit of all the makers during the day & can visit the magical chilled candle-lit wonderland at night – come and be part of the Greencrafts’ experience with:

 

 

fire and flint, knives & arrows,

 

smiths forging red-hot metal with glowing embers

 

silver rings and shamanic drums

 

glistening axes splitting and shaping timber

 

fluff and fur, felt & fleece, the rhythmic weaving of willow basketmakers

 

molten bronze,

 

pole lathes chatter & shavings fly next to bow-top wagons, yurts and tipis

 

raku pottery kilns a blazing into the night

 

 

The best thing is to visit the field and take a stroll around, see what’s on offer & talk / book directly with the craftspeople. Complete beginners are welcome, as are children supervised by accompanying adults. Some workshops operate on a drop-in basis, others need to be booked. Everything you’ll need is provided & they’ll be varied charges for materials etc. Come & be energised and try something new. You can take away something that is truly yours, made by your own hands.

 

 

Nic & Marie Piper

 

Greencrafts Co-ordinators

 

 

 

The Green Craft Field places the nature and inspirational energy of real education on full and spectacular display, showcasing everything from the flippant and whimsical to unquestionable masterpieces. As much as the main stages, here is a gathering of talent you would be very unlikely to see all held in one place anywhere else.

 

Just a few recent highlights included a fully functional foundry onsite, a visionary glass blower - working into the night from his two storey wigwam, a van dweller and chainsaw carver extraordinaire producing stunning buzz-sawed three dimensional sculpture, and art and technology combined at the forefront of a genuinely sustainable future in the shape of hand built wind generators. 

Carved Mushrooms - Matt

 

Some of the very best craftspeople in the country offer insights into their work along with a taste of the life which fulfils them. Here you can watch and wonder, look and learn, create your own artefacts or go home with something direct from the skilled hands of the demonstrators themselves. The field itself is decorated with many monumental works in wood, stone and turf, making it a precious place to spend some time and be a part of the rebirth of respect and patience in the art of manufacturing.

 

 

 

 

It can be fluffy and fun or scary and sweaty! The Green Crafts Field wields axes, knives, molten glass and bronze, carved flint, fleece and mud using the raw elemental forces in the hands of Europe’s leading risk takers in contemporary craft practice to show a better way and to share that knowledge with you…

 

 

 

Friday through Sunday, there’s hundreds of workshops, from pottery to metalcraft, textiles to woodworking. You’ll find ceremonial objects from cradle to coffin, survival techniques like fire-lighting by friction and how to build your own shelter. How to make your own everyday objects like wooden plates and furniture, metal trivets and pokers, ceramic cups and bowls; right through to ritualistic objects like chalices, drums, rattles and jewellery.

 

 

Green Crafts is a field all about living lightly on the land. It’s full of craftspeople and makers who’ve reduced their own footprint on the planet by living and working sustainably. Many craftspeople on the field grow and harvest their own raw materials (from wood to wool) while others only use locally sourced or carefully traced produce. Greencraft practice has many lessons to offer to society as a whole about environmental performance, bridging the art of ideas, inspiration and philosophy with hard core practicality, graft and commonsense.

 

 

From chainsaw carving and glass blowing to bronze casting and raku firing there’s plenty to see and every night, the field becomes a magical fairy kingdom, twinkling with hundreds of candle lanterns. And on Saturday night we’ll have a high-flying fire labyrinth by Fire Spiral and Circus La Fong.

 

 

This year’s highlights include daily workshops by Stone Age Potters, who’ll be hosting pottery workshops. The Jewellery Workshop will be making re-cycled jewellery. There will be high energy stonecarving workshops with Stoneycraft and Headstone-Carve-it-up plus Beyond 2000BC holding flint knapping workshops.

 

 

There will be people powered wood machinery and bowl carving workshops as well as The Rowans’ workshops in carving traditional Welsh Love Spoons.

 

Basket making and willow sculpture workshops, textile making, metalwork,

instrument making and papermaking workshops! There will be clay experiences and bike repairs and maintenance workshops with Milly Peds alongside amazing sculpture and workshops in rod, finger and glove puppets as well as Shpup holding shadow puppet workshops.

 

 

A 35 ton sand sculpture by Sand in your Eye, Bronze Cow up a Tree sculpture, wooden sculpture, wattle and daub domes, lanterns, willow sculptures, turf drawing, a Love Labyrinth by Green Dragon and plenty of banners by Ruth Bennett.

 

 

There will be the field’s legendary daily chainsaw-carving spectacles by  Vandweller Sculptures.

 

Listings

 

 

Greencrafts Field at Glastonbury Festival 08

 

This is only a TINY listing of what’s available – call into field & walk amongst craftspeople to discover full availability of craft workshops

 

 

Date

 

 

time

 

activity

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

25 June

 

10am

 

10am

 

 

2pm

 

2pm

 

Drum making workshop shamanic drums

 

Spoon carving workshop

 

 

Hurdle making have a go

 

Pedal powered woodwork workshops making culinary

 

                                                      items

 

 

 

 

Thursday    26 June

 

 

10am

 

10am

 

11am

 

12 mid-day

 

 

4pm

 

Pottery workshops raku

 

Weaving using peg looms

 

Silversmithing ring making workshops

 

Woodturning workshop using pedal powered lathe

 

 

Coppersmithing bowl making workshops

 

 

 

 

 

Friday        27 June

 

 

10am

 

10am

 

11am

 

12 mid-day

 

 

2pm

 

Flint knapping workshop making arrow heads

 

Plate carving workshop using green ash timber

 

Stonecarving have-a-go

 

‘Chainsaw Extravaganza’ wood carving display

 

 

Greenwood workshops making milking stools, flowers,        

 

                                                 pencils, candlesticks

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday     28 June

 

 

 

10am

 

 

11am

 

11am

 

12 mid-day

 

 

2pm

 

2pm

 

Bushcraft skills fire by friction, spoon carving, cord

 

                                  making, bowl burning

 

Bronze casting display of ancient casting techniques

 

Glass blowing have a go

 

‘Chainsaw Extravaganza’ wood carving display

 

 

Sewing workshop using treadle machine

 

Blacksmithing workshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday      29 June

 

 

 

10am

 

11am

 

11am

 

12 mid-day

 

 

2pm

 

2pm

 

 

Dusk

 

 

Fabric dying: using tree dyes

 

Soap making workshops

 

Stonecarving have-a-go

 

‘Chainsaw Extravaganza’ wood carving display

 

 

Basket making willow workshop

 

Felt making workshops

 

 

Candle lantern parade

 

 

 

 

King’s Meadow Labyrinth

 

 

A fabulous spiral labyrinth, created by Nic Piper, Snake Lee Godfree & Giles Scott of Greencrafts, offers you the chance to walk amongst a green space connecting positive use of natural materials with earth energy.

 

 

A place of celebration: On fair days in Europe, people would gather to dance through labyrinths on village greens & hill tops ………… King’s Meadow is the perfect place!

 

 

A sculpture of healing, meditation & well being – labyrinths can calm & sooth a person walking through them, reflecting guidance, trust & journey of life. Sacred geometry, Kundalini & transformation.

 

 

A place of good luck: Labyrinths are often found on shore-lines with sailors walking them for good luck, trapping ‘mischievous spirits’ in the labyrinth &

 

 allowing the sailors successful journeys.

 

 

At dusk, a special treat is in store, when the earth drawing becomes a magical fairy-land kingdom, lit by hundreds of twinkling candle lanterns.

 

 

Come & walk the labyrinth & be part of the magic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GREENCRAFTS FIELD         GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2007       

 

Below is a list of last year's workshops. many of these will again be in the field.

 

GROUP NAME

 

WORKSHOP TYPE

 

DEMO

 

Beyond 2000BC

 

Flintknapping

 

 

Headstone

 

Stonecarving

 

 

Stoneycraft

 

Stonecarving

 

 

Salix Creations

 

Willow sculpture & basketry

 

 

Sue Kirk Basketmaker

 

Frame baskets

 

Basketmaking. Willow growing advice.

 

Wildwood Willow

 

Shoulder bags & waterbottle containers

 

 

Downright Doormats

 

Ropework doormats

 

 

 

Noisy Logs

 

 

Wooden festival chairs using pedal powdered machinery

 

Pedal powdered wood working machines – furniture production

 

Noisy Log sound makers

 

Anglesey Greenwood

 

Spooncarving, chair making, rustic furniture, hazel flowers & animals, pole lathe turning, woodland collage, charcoal making & drawing, wooden sculpture & wands, recycled cupboards

 

 

Forest Garden Advice

 

Shave Horse Construction

 

Turning leaf Wood Co

 

Greenwood stools

 

Pole lathe turning

 

Stroudies

 

Greenwood chairs & flowers

 

 

In the Woods

 

 

Green woodworking, Pole lathe turning

 

Forest of Avon Coop

 

Glastonbury Bugs

 

Turnip Prize

 

Seating Wheel, Wishing Tree, Story Walk, Green Leaves,

 

Greenwood working: small scale timber framing, spoon carving, seating, pole lathe

 

Green Device

 

Bowl & plate carving, wooden pendant charms

 

 

Harry Thomas & Family

 

 

Chainsaw carving

 

Vandweller

 

 

Chainsaw speed carving

 

From the Stix

 

Coppice crafts

 

Coracle making

 

Rustic furniture & sculpture

 

 

Adam King

 

Besom brooms & gypsy flowers

 

 

Wiltshire Hurdles

 

 

Hurdle making

 

Wildwood Bushcraft

 

Bowl carving through burning

 

Firelighting by spark & friction

 

Cord making

 

Meat preservation (smoking)

 

Thunder Valley Emporium

 

Fire lighting

 

Wooden utensil carving (spoons etc)

 

Leaf mobiles

 

Painting stones as pebble Pets!

 

 

Shamanic Horse Drums

 

Single Sided Hoop Drum Construction, Feltmaking

 

 

Sun Didges

 

Paper making, spoon carving 1:1, Didge playing,

 

Axe handling, windsor chair assembly, pole lathe turning, spoon making

 

 

The Jewellery Workshop

 

Silver rings & textured bands.

 

Re-cycled metalwork: copper & aluminium jewellery

 

 

Bronze Age Foundry

 

 

Bronze casting of a bell

 

Colbalt Blacksmiths

 

Blacksmithing & leatherwork

 

 

Copperworks

 

Coppersmithing 1:1

 

Coppersmithing

 

 

Road-Side Recycling

 

 

Lightweight metalwork, tin can & fence wire decorative windmills

 

Shaftesbury Forge

 

Forging techniques

 

 

Grindstone Cowboy

 

 

Pedal powered tool grinding & sharpening

 

Jennie Cole

 

Blacksmithing

 

 

The Mobile Forge

 

Blacksmithing & lantern making

 

 

Gareth Thomas

 

Forging & tool repairs

 

 

Soap Stars

 

Soap making using essential oils & colours

 

 

Kate & Dave Blacksmiths

 

Blacksmithing using re-cycled steel & wrought iron

 

 

Millypeds

 

Cycle repairs, maintance, wheel building

 

 

North Wind Blows

 

Decorative cloth sail windmills

 

Wood turning – Victorian pedal lathe

 

Treadle Treats

 

Fabric bag making using treadle sewing machine

 

 

Weaveworld

 

Rag-rug making

 

 

Spinning Weal

 

Spinning

 

Spinning, dying & peg loom

 

Wildcraft

 

Dreamcatchers

 

 

Crafty Fluff ‘ n’ Stuff

 

Feltmaking

 

 

Flock

 

Knitting

 

 

Leatherworks

 

 

Using re-worked harness leather & buckles

 

Studio Glass Productions

 

 

Glassblowing

 

Dowtcha Puppets

 

Rod, finger & glove puppets

 

Puppet show

 

Shpup Theatre

 

Shadow Puppets

 

Puppet show/story

 

 

Peter Newton

 

& Scarramouch

 

 

Restored Bow-top wagons & on-going repairs / information.

 

 Wheelwright information

 

Dogwood

 

 

Turf Roofed shelter & re-cycled furniture

 

Rak – U - Like

 

Raku glazing

 

 

Labyrinth Arts

 

Raku pottery

 

 

Deamon or Doppleganger?

 

Clay figure making & kick wheel throwing

 

 

Stone Age Potters

 

Making pots & firing

 

Dragon shaped clamp kiln

 

 

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