Green Wood Stool Making
: 06 Apr 2024 - 07 Apr 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to make your own unique green wood stool. Choose between a woven or solid wood seat, and whether to complete your components on a shave-horse or pole-lathe.
Make a bent-wood hazel stick chair
: 06 Apr 2024 - 07 Apr 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to make a beautiful green wood chair from locally grown hazel, using just a saw, drill and hammer.
Introduction to Woodland Management AIM L3
: 08 Apr 2024 - 09 Apr 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
This two-day course will help build the background knowledge needed to manage your woodland sustainably and work towards creating resilient, productive woods.
Hazel Hurdle Making
: 27 Apr 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Find out how to make a traditional woven hazel hurdle, working alongside a professional hurdle maker.
Willow Hurdle Making
: 28 Apr 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Using a traditional Somerset pattern, you will be taught how to make a woven willow panel to take home.
Coracle Making
: 11 May 2024 - 12 May 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle using simple tools and techniques to suit all levels of experience and ability.
Tool sharpening
: 18 May 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
An immersive day learning how to sharpen green wood working tools.
Kuksa Carving
: 19 May 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Carve your very own Scandinavian style Kuksa using traditional tools and techniques.
Make a ‘Mike Abbott-style’ shave-horse
: 01 Jun 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Make & use a shave-horse in a day! Designed by green wood chairmaker Mike Abbott, these slightly crude but wonderfully functional shave-horses are assembled using lengths of 4x2, sturdy screws, simple tools, and a cordless drill.
Rustic Rake Making
: 02 Jun 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Make your own garden rake! Using green ash wood, you will spend the day cleaving and shaping components using traditional tools and devices
Relief Carving in Wood
: 08 Jun 2024
Learn wood carving techniques whilst making a relief carving.
Introduction to Woodland Management AIM L3
: 10 Jun 2024 - 11 Jun 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
This two-day course will help build the background knowledge needed to manage your woodland sustainably and work towards creating resilient, productive woods.
Introduction to Pole Lathe Turning
: 30 Jun 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Spend a day at the Green Wood Centre learning how to turn fresh green wood on a foot-powered pole-lathe.
Make a traditional shave-horse
: 13 Jul 2024 - 14 Jul 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Make your own traditional-style shave-horse using green ash for components and a sawn ash board for the shave-horse body.
Cordage Exploration
: 20 Jul 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Experiment with a variety of plants to extract their fibres, some of which we will sensitively harvest from around The Green Wood Centre, to then twist into natural cordage.
Coracle Making
: 23 Aug 2024 - 25 Aug 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle using simple tools and techniques to suit all levels of experience and ability.
Paddle making
: 07 Sep 2024 - 08 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
A course suitable for water enthusiast, canoeists and coraclers, you will use a single piece of cleft ash to craft a paddle suited to your needs.
Introduction to Woodland Management AIM L3
: 09 Sep 2024 - 10 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
This two-day course will help build the background knowledge needed to manage your woodland sustainably and work towards creating resilient, productive woods.
Ash splint basketry
: 14 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
This course will take you through the full process of creating your own unique Ash Splint Basket.
The Wonderful World of Trees
: 14 Sep 2024 - 15 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
This course will prove useful to anyone who is interested in the way trees are named, reproduce, develop, communicate and live together.
Spoon carving
: 22 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Spoon carving is a great way to start whittling and to learn about the properties of wood. Each spoon is completely unique which makes them great presents.
Split Hazel Basketry
: 28 Sep 2024 - 29 Sep 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Discover the skills and learn the techniques for making a traditional split-hazel frame basket, still known as a "whisket" in Mid Wales
Coracle Making
: 05 Oct 2024 - 06 Oct 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle using simple tools and techniques to suit all levels of experience and ability.
Coiled Grass Baskets
: 05 Oct 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to seasonally gather, store and prepare grasses, leaves and other natural fibres for basketry.
Sustainable Woodland Management AIM L3
: 04 Nov 2024 - 06 Nov 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
A course designed for new or aspiring woodland owners and managers who want to manage their woodlands to balance environmental, economic and social benefits.
Two days of classroom sessions and woodland visits are followed by a practical skills and woodland products day.
Weaving with Brambles
: 07 Dec 2024
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to turn these oft misunderstood vines into beautiful baskets using a variety of techniques.