Craft Field

 

 

 

The GREENCRAFTS Field

 

The Greencrafts Field is the place to go to make special things!

From Wednesday to Sunday there’s hundreds of artists and craftspeople laying on workshops for you to choose from. Come & be part of the biggest ‘hands-on’ craft field & sculpture park in Europe !

 

We promote traditional craft but also celebrate what’s cutting-edge and contemporary.

Greencrafts is not tame – it’s a field full of hot metal, kilns and ovens with blacksmiths, potters and bakers sharing the elemental force of fire to transform materials. Sharp blades and tools pay tribute to wood and stone and ……

Ø      If you love colour and ‘fab fabric’ Greencrafts is the field to visit to make fantastic felt, to weave, spin and dye !

Ø      If you fancy making something to wear, we’re the place to make silver jewellery, glass or wood pendants, a silk purse, leather belt or flower garland.

Ø      If you want to smell great, come make luxurious essential oil scented soap !

Ø      If you’d like something to eat with, come make a wooden bowl, spoon or plate or a clay cup

Ø      You can make a shamanic drum, a stool to sit on, a willow basket or even a pencil !

 

The sculpture, gardens & labyrinths are among the best you’ll see at any festival making The Greencrafts Field a gorgeous place to come sit & chill.

 

The Greencrafts Field is next-door to the stone circle. To make it easy to find your way around, we’ve laid out the Greencrafts Field into groupings of similar workshops – you’ll find all the metal smiths in one area, the wood workers in another etc. Also at the entrance there’s a listing of what’s happening each day – or you can just wander and see what takes your fancy ! Some workshops you can just drop-by on and others you need to book to save a place; some charge for materials.

 

Everyone is welcome; including children supervised by accompanying adults. You don’t have to have experience, just visit the field and get involved ! You’ll take home something truly magical – something you’ve made and that’s part of this amazing festival.

 

We’ll look forward to seeing you there

Nic & Marie Piper  The Greencrafts Field co-ordinators

 

2009 Workshop Listing Timetable

Wednesday	10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00	Bowl, plate & spoon carving, Drum making, Bushcraft, Wood mizer, Chalk carving, Pencils, Baskets, LED torches, Stonecarving, Treddle sewing, Copper bowls, Flower garlands, Blacksmithing
Thursday	10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00	Blacksmithing, Bowl & plate carving, Glass blowing, Pottery wheel, Stonecarving, Pole lathe, Felt, hazle hurdles, raku pottery, Spoon carving, Silver jewellery
Friday	10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00	Raku pottery, Dying wool, Silver jewellery, Soap making, Flute making, Glass blowing, Pole lathe, Baskets, Blacksmithing, Knitting Felt, Pencils, Copper bowls,
Saturday	10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00	Pencil making, Plate, spoon & bowl carving Wood mizer, Pottery wheel, Treddle sewing, Glass blowing, Stonecarving, Pole lathe, Lanterns, Copper bowls
Sunday:	10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00	Felt, Blacksmithing, Silver jewellery, Soap making, Flute making, Baskets, Glass blowing, LED torches, Raku pottery Lanterns, Crochet, Stonecarving,

 

 

The Greencrafts Field 2008

 

 

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

 

 

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. 

 

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.