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| 'A WONDERFUL DAY OUT - FOR ALL THE FAMILY' |
PICNIC AREAS / FREE CAR PARKING / QUALITY REFRESHMENTS |
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| Wrest Park Craft & Design Festival Wrest Park, Silsoe, Beds MK45 4HR 29th, 30th & 31st August 2009 ON THE HUNTING PARTY LAWNS WITHIN THE GARDENS. By kind permission of the English Heritage. Artists, designers and makers from all over the country exhibiting and offering their original work for sale in the idyllic setting of Wrest Park Gardens.
Displays / Familiar Exhibitors / Demonstrations / Wooden Lovespoons / The Saxon Village / Pot Throwing / Stonemasonry / Croquet / Music / About Wrest Park / How To Get There |
ADMISSION: Adults £6.50, Senior Citizens £5.50. Children (5-15yrs) £4.50, Under 5's FREE. 50% reduction for English Heritage Members. 10.00am - 5.30pm each day Dogs welcome on leads.
If you wish to exhibit please email: exhibit@romorexhibitions.co.uk attaching photographs in jpeg format or write to PO Box 448 Bedford MK40 2ZP enclosing photographs and decription of your work. All work must be made by the exhibiting crafts person. Thank you.
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on display and for sale will include Acrylics, Bird baths, Bookbinding, Celtic jewellery, Ceramics, Clocks, Coin miniatures, Collectors teddy bears, Contemporary jewellery, Cross-stitch, Cushions, Dichroic glass, Display cabinets, Earthenware, Fabric bags, Fashion accessories, Filligree coin jewellery, Glass & stainless steel sculptures, Gold & silver jewellery, Greetings cards, Hand-carved flowers, Hand-woven garments, Home baked cakes & slices, Jugs, Ladies fashions, Lamps, Leaded mirrors, Leather handbags & wallets, Oil paintings, Painted glass, Panels, Pastels, Pencil drawings & prints, Picture frames, Porcelain, Pottery, Silk laminates, Stained glass mosaics, Stoneware, Sun dials, Tables, Tableware, Textiles, Treen, Walking sticks, Wall hangings, Watercolours, Willow baskets, Windsor chairs, Wooden toys, Woodturning, Wrought iron and much more. BODY & SOUL Kim Major-George is an experienced collagraph artist who is known for her striking spiritual imagery created using this traditional hand method of printing. Join her in 1 hour collagraph workshops available throughout this event (cost £1) A SELECTION OF THE EXHIBITORS YOU MAY RECOGNISE Andru Knitwear, Ann Benwell Stained Glass, Anything Grows, Artizyne, Bedfordshire Basket Makers, Bedfordshire Beekeepers Association, Bedfordshire Guild Of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers, Bexton Cheese, Blackthorn Workshops, Body & Soul, Clare's Creations, Click On Nature, Coin Jewellery, Colins Turnery, Common Threads, Designs In Glass, Designs On Silk, Designs On You, Elisabeth Bailey, Elizabeth, Esther Rose Designs, Feather Graphics, Fluid By Design, F W Clark Stonemason, Gallardo & Blaine Designs Ltd, Giddygecko.com, Glass By Maxine, Guild Of Machine Knitters, Helen Odor, Jane McCormick Ceramics, John S. Gibb, Lorna Henderson, Loup Jewellery, M & B Bromfield, Manocia Handmade Designs, Marion Smith, MJK Woodcrafts, N & S Cheyette, Norman D Whiting, Old Hall Confectionery, P & A Cakes, Pepperstock Archers, Potteryman, Ralph Hentall Spoonmaker, Romany Crafts From The Hedgerow, Romany Workshop, Ruben Bears, Simmers Marketing, Socon Bookbinding, Sparkly Mary, Spinning With Jenny, Stephen & Sandra Smith Designs, Sticks & Stones, The Leatherworker, The Olive Branch, The Rug Studio, The Stubbington Workshop, Tony’s Wooden Toys, Vivaldi Jewellery, Wheal Rose Windsors, Wheatley Wood Craft & Woodnewton Pottery........ to name but a few...
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FEATURED EXHIBITORS PAUL & DIANE WEIR / BEDFORDSHIRE BASKET MAKERS Our extensive range of baskets are traditionally handmade to the highest standard using English willow. A specialist in bespoke baskets. Demonstrations and talks given to clubs and groups.www.craftmaker.co.uk/paulanddianeweir MARY THORPE / SPARKLY MARY The only maker in the world of vibrantly coloured hand painted silk laminates. Paintings, clocks, tablemats, jewellery and furniture. Entirely handmade. Simply stunning! RUTH ORPEN / STICKS & STONES Unique birthstone jewellery made and designed by Ruth. Crystals and minerals for health and well being.www.sticksandstones1.com BREN TILLEY / RUBEN BEARS Handcrafted
mohair collectors teddy bears designed and made in Bedfordshire.
MARTIN & SHIRLEY HEWETT Decorated & filigree coin products, cufflinks, pendants, bookmarks, spoons, paperknives, golf markers etc.www.coin-jewellery.com SARAH HUNT / THE LEATHER WORKER Handmade quality leathergood, including belts, bags, beer tankards, wine coolers, umbrella stands, purses, wallets etc. www.theleatherworker.co.uk SARAH CLARKE / FLUID BY DESIGN Unique handcrafted gold & silver jewellery designed by Sarah Clarke B.A.(hons). Commissions undertaken. All work hallmarked at Birmingham assay office. www.fluidbydesign.net CLICK ON NATURE Nature photographer specialising in quality original image craft products including greeting cards, prints, canvases, notelets, postcards and gift tags. www.clickonnature.co.uk FRED CLARK/STONEMASON Restoration, architectural carving and detailed masonry work. Sundials in celtic designs. WOODNEWTON POTTERY Colourful functional pottery. Dinner sets, house plaques etc.
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Watch demonstrations of traditional and rural craft skills: Wheelwrighting, Bookbinding, Antique rug restoration, Willow basket making, Ceramics, Chairmaking, Clogmaking, Woodturning, Walking Stick makng, Jewellery making, Spinning, Leatherwork, Pole lathe turning, Lovespoon carving, Watercolour painting, Pole lathe turning, Wooden toy making......... and more. |
FOOD & DRINK SPECIALISTS VILLAGE A 'village' of producers of specialist food and drink products Including Simmers Marketing - Dips, fruit cordials, ginger wine & ginger beer. The Olive Branch - the finest olives, olive oils & anti-pasta of the Mediterranean. Woburn Country Foods - Fresh meats, speciality sausages, bacon, ham & venison. Bexton Cheese - Handmade farmhouse cheeses individually waxed and in various flavours. Simply Strawberries - Delicious strawberries & cream. Humbers Homemade - Jams, chutneys & preserves from local produce. Real Tea & Coffee Company - Seciality teas & coffee beans and luxury cookies. Harvest Food Ltd - Premium handmade pies, sweet & savoury.
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The Beverley String Quartet - four professional musicians led by Ian Smith, to serenade you with a varied selection of music. Relax and enjoy a concert or stroll to a background of strings. WOODEN FLOWER MAKING FROM THE HEDGEROWS Romany crafts from the hedgerows, handed down through the generations. RUG RESTORATION Restoration demonstration of antique/old rugs & textiles. Bring your own piece for a free quatation & valuation. ARCHERY Pepperstock Archers invite you to meet them and to try your hand at this ancient sport. Full tuition & safety equipment provided. THE GUILD OF MACHINE KNITTERS Demostrations and hands on opportunities with The Guild Of Machine Knitters, They will also be displaying knitted items such as suits, coats, christening gowns, bags, cushions and blankets. The Guild aims to raise awareness of the craft and encourage and foster its members to a high standard. An exhibition of wooden spoons and associated customs and ceremonies from around the world. Ralph will be demonstrating wooden spoon making throughout the day CLOGMAKING Jeremy Atkinson - the last traditional green wood hand carving clogmaker in Britain. Bespoke clogs, 19th century style. Specialist demonstration of stonework carving, repair & restoration. Members of the Wrest Park Croquet Club will be playing matches each day between 2.00pm and 5.00pm plus the chance to 'have a go' yourself. See the professionals at the wheel and throw a pot yourself. Current work by Woodnewton Pottery is mainly functional thrown pottery, with colourful majolica decoration using shaped sponges and brushes. Specialities are dinner services made to order.
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Bringing history to life, this educational group, formed in 1986, are fascinated with the craft skills, technologies and everyday lives of past peoples. From their traditional-style tents, in full authentic costumes they will present skills. The Saxon Village people may vary at this event Peter the Lantern Maker - lighten your life - there were two main types of lantern, those with windows and those with a pattern of punched holes (thousand eye lanterns). The word lantern may have come from the two main materials used in its construction, that is latten (thin brass sheet) and horn for the windows. Nicholas the Mail Maker - a link with the past and another and another! - made from drawn iron wire, shaped into rings and linked together to form mail. A very ancient form of body armour, though still in use in Tudor times. Runar the Woodsman & Rune Carver - oak and ash, futhark and futhork - runes are an ancient and magical form of lettering that was originally designed, not to be written but to be carved into wood. Runar is deep in the knowledge of wood and rune lore. Brother Stephen the Calligrapher - parchment oak galls and quills - Tytyvyllus willing - the scrivener, well practised in the skills, sits in his tent busy writing out important ducuments, charters and perhaps poems. Now and again he stops to cut a new quill. He is in need of a new apprentice and will have an eye for a likely person to try their hand with a quill. Master Colin the Pewterer - holiday souvenirs (Holy-day souvenirs) - skillfully cutting his stone moulds. Using a small brazier, he melts and pours metal into stone and cuttle fish moulds to produce examples of pilgrim badges, livery badges, belt hangers, buckles and pins. His wife offers his wares for sale to the public. Alys the Green Woman - worts & banes - in medieval times plants played a much greater part in people's lives than they do today. Protectng the medieval home and the family within, lighting, heating, sweeping, cooking, cleaning, healing and scenting were all carried out using the plants of the field and woodland.
Costume maker - kirtles, liripipes, daggs & partlets- a display of hand sewn costumes from the Saxons & Vikings to the Early Tudors. Did they have pockets? Did they have underwear? How were clothes made? Who did the cutting & how were the customers measured? Explore the myths and truths of life in Medieval England with these colourful characters.
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The appearance of this large eighteenth century French-style mansion surprises and delights visitors. It was designed by its’ owner, Earl de Grey and built 1834-1839 on the site of an earlier mansion belonging to the family. Its’ creation prompted the development of formal gardens near the house. The surrounding woodland garden had been developed over several previous generations. Three distinct gardening styles can be seen: the mysterious but inviting early eighteenth century woodland garden either side of the Long Water, the natural style garden made popular by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and the more formal flower gardens in the French-style. The many attractions of Wrest Park provide hours of pleasure and interest for all the family. See the 18th century Bowling Green house with its’ stucco decoration, the rustic bath house with pebble pavement and knucklebone floor, the Chinese bridge, a pagan altar, lakes, rivers, lawns...... There is no end to the pleasures of Wrest Park. |
Wrest Park is situated midway between Bedford and Luton, on the A6.
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Displays / Familiar Exhibitors / Demonstrations / Wooden Lovespoons / The Saxon Village / Pot Throwing / Stonemasonry / Croquet / Music / About Wrest Park / How To Get There Home / Exhibitor contact / Visitor contact / Top of Page ROMOR EXHIBITIONS LIMITED, 2009 |
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