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Course brochure May 2019 – January 2020
Learn, laugh, love... If you’re not ready
to embark on an
overnight stay, why
not go for something
Founded over 70 years ago by the NFWI, Denman Contents else Denman has
has come a long way. Its ethos however, remains to offer, such as:
the same; learn a new skill, make new friends 04 D
ay schools and family
and leave feeling well rested and inspired! friendly workshops Afternoon Tea
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Summer schools From £16 pp
Everyone is welcome at Denman – men, women
Minimum of 2 guests
and children! – furthermore, you don’t have to be a WI 12 Special events
member either! We have over 700 courses and events Includes prosecco!
to choose from, your biggest challenge is figuring out 14 Cookery residential
which one to go for. courses A-Z A day visit
20 Craft residential From £30 pp
courses A-Z A personal welcome
from staff
42 Lifestyle residential Tour of the house,
courses A-Z grounds & bedrooms
55 Calendar Denman lunch
& cream tea!
62 Terms & conditions
63 Application form An experience day
?
From £80 pp
Did you
know
Two hour workshops
from a bespoke list
of courses
The price of a Denman Denman lunch
residential course & cream tea!
includes tuition from
an expert tutor, plus
all accommodation, Thank you to all of our
breakfast, morning denman sponsors:
coffee and pastries, two- Key
course lunch, afternoon M Price for current WI members
tea and three-course NM Price for non-members
dinners. It’s practically New courses
all inclusive! Cookery Craft Lifestyle
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Day schools and family workshops Day schools and family workshops
Day schools and family workshops
Fermentation: The Next Step: Ashley Keen Knife Skills: Ashley Keen Pasta and Sauces: Mariella Bliss Vegan Baking and Desserts: Ashley Keen
5 September 2019 17 August 2019 23 January 2020 7 January 2020
Take your home ferments to the Join Ashley to julienne, brunoises Join our authentic Neapolitan cook It’s Veganuary! Are you or a family
next level with exciting new flavour and chiffonade your way to vegetable and tutor Mariella, to learn how to member vegan and you want to be
combinations, cultured condiments chopping brilliance! In addition make fresh pasta and extend your able to create delicious desserts
COOKERY Everyday Vegan Cookery: Ashley Keen
2 July 2019
and even your very own ginger
‘bug’ for real ginger beer at home.
to the vegetable shapes and cuts,
you will learn to bone a chicken
repertoire beyond bolognese sauce!
In this fresh pasta workshop, learn
and baked goods but it all seems a
bit daunting? Join Ashley for a vegan
Cheese Making: Louise Talbot Are you or a loved one vegan and It is preferable but not essential and fillet a fish. You will use what how to make fresh egg and flour pasta masterclass, cooking up a beautiful
looking for a little inspiration when it for you to have participated in you have chopped, butchered and from scratch - tagliatelle, pappardelle array of cakes, desserts and baked
7 August 2019
comes to meal times? Join us to learn our introductory course. filleted to make some great dishes and tagliolini, then listen to the story goods. You will become acquainted
8 August 2019
some simple, balanced and delicious M £125 • NM £145 to take home. of the perfect marriage between pasta with chia seeds, coconut butter and
Join farmer’s wife and cheese maker
meals to take home and enjoy for the M £125 • NM £145 shapes and sauces. aqufaba with top tips on how to
Louise Talbot for a fascinating course Gluten Free Baking: Ashley Keen
next few days and recreate for years M £150 • NM £170 replace eggs and dairy in general
in making cheese at home. Louise 6 June 2019 Macaron Masterclass: Kelly Mauger
to come! cooking along the way.
will show you how to make a range 11 May 2019 Steak Night: Guest Chef
M £125 • NM £145 Gluten free baking can seem daunting, M £150 • NM £170
of soft cheeses using domestic 25 July 2019
however this course will highlight Thanks to Ladurée and Pierre
kitchen utensils. Festive Preserves: Vivien Lloyd Vegetarian Indian Cookery: Bhavini Mistry
how easy it is to create delicious, Hermé, the macaron has become Learn how to cook the perfect steak,
M £125 • NM £145 21 November 2019 baked goods including tarts, breads the trendiest patisserie on the planet. as well as sides and a sauce, then 19 November 2019
Get ahead of the festive season and cakes. Learn how to make perfect colourful enjoy a restful dinner with a glass In this class your taste buds will be
Chicken Masterclass: Paul Bellchambers shells, sandwiched with delicious of wine to enjoy all of your hard work! tantalised and your eyes opened to
and join us to make a range of M £125 • NM £145
9 January 2020
preserves to eat, share and gift in fillings, including, chocolate ganache, M £75 • NM £85 the array of vegetarian dishes that
Chicken can be expensive to buy, time for Christmas, ready to liven up Halloween Baking: Ana Dores jam and lemon curd. are easy to make using only some
however buying a whole chicken and make a great talking point of any 22 October 2019 M £75 • NM £85 Student Survival: Ashley Keen basic spices and locally sourced
and jointing it can be a much more cheese board or Christmas dinner. Enjoy a day of baking spooky 15 August 2019 ingredients. You will learn some
cost effective and diverse way With a mixture of demonstrations creations for Halloween during the This course is aimed at teenagers traditional vegetarian dishes that
to enjoy cooking with and eating. and practical sessions, discover how half term break! This course is aimed with a passion for cooking and those you know and love such as Samosas
Learn to break down a whole chicken to make a festive marmalade, curd, at 6-12 year olds, however all ages with university looming. Learn a range and Creamy Spiced Dahl, with a few
and then use up all of the cuts and
?
chutney and jelly using the traditional are welcome. of versatile meals that are quick, modern dishes thrown in to keep
joint to make several diverse meals methods championed by the WI. M 1 adult 1 child £95 healthy, delicious and cost effective you inspired such as Sweet Potato
to then take home.
M £150 • NM £170 M 1 adult 2 children £125 • Did you to recreate. and Kale Saag Aloo and Spiced
know
M £150 • NM £170 NM 1 adult 1 child £115 M £125 • NM £145 Roasted Aubergine.
Fermentation: An Introduction: Ashley Keen NM 1 adult 2 children £145 M £150 • NM £170
Chocolates For Christmas: Katie Churchard 11 July 2019 Sushi Making: Wakako Guppy
14 December 2019 Italian Night: Guest Chef 10 October 2019
Master the art of chocolate making
Discover the processes of fermentation All ingredients are
and how it can be used to enhance our 23 July 2019 Many British people think of sushi
with this fun day school where included in the cost
menu planning and health. This course Join us for Italian night as you learn as ‘raw fish’, but actually sushi is a
you will make both capped and will cover techniques and recipes to make your own pasta and sauce of a Cookery School rice-based cuisine. You’ll learn how
dipped chocolates with festive to create tasty fermented foods and from scratch, as well as an authentic course. What’s more to make sushi rice in an authentic
fillings including Stilton and Port drink like kombucha tea, sauerkraut, Italian dessert, then enjoy a restful - they’re all measured method in this course. Then, you’ll
and a gingerbread ganache. labneh, yoghurt and pickles and even dinner with a glass of wine to enjoy make two types of sushi. One is
M £150 • NM £170
and prepped in advance
create your own sourdough starter all of your hard work! “chirashi zushi”, the most popular in
for you! Japan. It doesn’t require advanced
Eat The Seasons: Ashley Keen for homemade sourdough. M £75 • NM £85
M £125 • NM £145 skills, and you can develop your own
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once you learn the basic version.
Join us for a day of cooking with local, The other is sushi rolls, the most
seasonal produce. You will create your popular form of sushi in the UK.
own two course lunch followed by an M £150 • NM £170
afternoon exploring further dishes to
take home for dinner. Be inspired to
cook using what is available from your
garden and local farm shop and know
how to adapt recipes to suit the
produce and time of year.
M £150 • NM £170
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Day schools and family workshops
Craft Day schools and family workshops
Creative Paper Cutting: Christine Green Drawing: Portraits: David Nicholls
CRAFT 30 September 2019 4 September 2019
You will get to grips with creative There are seven billion people on the
Bumper Craft Take Away: Natalie Green lettering and produce a panel unique face of the earth, and most of them
4 June 2019 to you. This could be a birthday have two eyes, a nose and a mouth
Try your hand at a medley of different greeting, or family names or short – yet, with the exception of identical
craft projects with a contemporary saying. You will practice your newly twins, they are all recognisable from
twist. You will make a number of acquired skills and master safe one another. How can this many
different small projects to give you and accurate cutting, and designing faces, each so similar, be recognised
lots of lovely ideas for your WI craft effective and pleasing items. as different? We will learn ways of
sessions, to decorate your home M £110 • NM £130 seeing these differences, and will
or give away as special presents. draw several portraits, including a
There will be a range of projects to try, Crochet Freeform: Jan Blight self-portrait drawn in a mirror. This
using beautiful fabrics, felts, buttons, 28 September 2019 fascinating area of art is admired
threads, beads, papers and all sorts! Freeform crochet is exactly what it above all others, because ‘getting
M £110 • NM £130 says it is, crochet that has no regular a likeness’ seems to be the hardest
form. The crocheted fabric is formed thing to do. In fact, following tried
Button Craft Bonanza: Natalie Green by working a number of ‘scrumbles’, and tested methods, it may not be
17 May 2019 which are then joined together. as difficult as you think.
Have you got piles of buttons lying Scrumbles consist of a variety of stitch M £125 • NM £145
around or just a button collector- patterns, yarn and colours. The fabric
holic?! This is a fun day which gives is organic and improvisational. Unique Festive Willow: Norah Kennedy
you several projects to made a dent to you, there is no right or wrong 15 November 2019
in your button stash and show off method to work. The crochet fabric is Put away the tinsel and the fairy lights
not repetitive so there are no granny and spend a rewarding day creating Flower Arranging: Pedestals for the Terrified: Modern Calligraphy: Learn the Basics: Rope Baskets: Sallieann Harrison
your beauties to best effect. We will
use buttons to create decorations, squares or anything resembling one! your own unique Christmas decorations Christine Pearce Jane Lappage 28 May 2019
pictures, accessories, jewellery M £110 • NM £130 from willow. You can expect to make 19 July 2019 28 June 2019 Make a basket from rope on a
and greetings cards and lots of several items to decorate your home This day school is for anyone who You will have seen this on trend script sewing machine in just one day! I will
other ideas too. or you may wish to give them as would like to learn how to design and everywhere. The beauty of learning demonstrate making a base, turning
M £105 • NM £125 presents. A most enjoyable course make a ‘pedestal’ flower arrangement. this script is it is easier to master the sides, fabric wrapping rope and
and you will return home with a I promise it wont be as daunting and personalise, making it unique to we will discuss dying, painting and
Calligraphy: An Introduction: David Nicholls great sense of achievement. as you think it will be! Pedestals you. You will be using a fine point nib other trims that can be added.
5 July 2019 M £150 • NM £170 are in fact the stand which a flower which is perfect for left handers too. Warning though – rope baskets
For anyone who has long admired arrangement is placed. It doesn’t Practising the skills in this script, you are addictive!
calligraphy and wants to know how necessarily have to be a triangular will gain your confidence and finish M £125 • NM £145
to start. Demonstrations and individual arrangement either and during the the day by making a small beautiful
day I will encourage you to look at piece for special occasions, such as Silver Clay Jewellery for Beginners:
tuition will be designed to cater
for your particular needs. alternatives and also how to put a card, place name, gift tag etc. Using Melanie Blaikie
a contemporary twist on a usually fantastic metallic inks with calligraphy, 24 May 2019
M £105 • NM £125
traditional design. your work will look a million dollars. 23 August 2019
Calligraphy: David Nicholls M £110 • NM £130 M £125 • NM £145 Enjoy an adventure into a world
19 October 2019 of silver with one of the UK’s
?
Calligraphy simply means beautiful foremost teachers and this amazing
Did you
writing, and during the day workshop new form of pure silver. Learn
know
we will study calligraphy made with wonderful techniques and tips to
a broad edged pen and based on design and create real silver jewellery
a tenth century manuscript. This using just a few simple tools. Expect
course is for complete beginners to make at least two finished pieces
and for anyone who has long Did you know you that can even be hall-marked. Fun
admired calligraphy and wants can hire Denman out? and creative inspiration guaranteed!
to know how to start. Why not plan your next M £110 • NM £130
M £150 • NM £170 birthday celebration
here? Contact us to
find out more!
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Day schools and family workshops Day schools and family workshops
Silver Clay Jewellery for Christmas Presents: Spoon Carving: Charles Ash Tiffany Style Stained Glass For Beginners:
Louise Simmonds 30 October 2019 Karen Jones LIFESTYLE
30 November 2019 Spoon carving is a fantastic way 28 May 2019
This is a really exciting and creative to learn the basics of green wood You will learn how to cut, assemble ‘A Dickens of a time’: the making of the
form of jewellery making using silver carving. At the end of the day you will and make your own stained glass Victorian Christmas: Peter Street
clay, which can be shaped like clay have made your own spoon to use sunrise panel or dragonfly suncatcher 4 December 2019
but when fired is transformed into and show your friends. The day starts using the stained glass copper foil It was the Victorian era which first
fine silver. You’ll be taught how to use with a single log. You will cleave it technique (also known as the Tiffany witnessed the making of and major
silver clay to create pieces to produce down, use an axe to shape and finish Technique). You will use a selection importance of Christmas in English
stunning jewellery. You’ll also learn with various knives to smooth and of different coloured stained glass. society and many of the traditions
some traditional techniques to finish perfect your spoon. This workshop Suitable for beginners. linked with that Festival. The course
your piece professionally. There will is suitable for all abilities. M £110 • NM £130 explores why this was so together with
be an opportunity to incorporate semi M £150 • NM £170 their origins/developments. We begin
precious stones, freshwater pearls Willow: Making Piglets: Norah Kennedy with the contribution of Dickens,
and cubic zirconia in your design. Stained Glass: All Things Copperfoil!: 3 May 2019 especially through his writings.
M £150 • NM £170 Anna Conti Using some simple basket making Thereafter also considered include
9 September 2019 techniques and different colours of Christmas cards and decorations,
Silver Clay Jewellery: Louise Simmonds Anna will introduce you to the art willow you will make a delightful piglet the pantomime, food, presents,
20 July 2019 of making stained glass copperfoil to display in your home or garden. carols and music associated with
This is a really exciting and creative items and guide you through cutting Learn how to make the body, floppy this season, Christmas Day in the Creative Writing: Developing and DNA Testing and Family History:
form of jewellery making using silver glass, foiling and soldering. On this ears, little fat trotters and a curly tail – Workhouse (and elsewhere) as well Editing your Novel: Debrah Martin Jessica Feinstein
clay, which can be shaped like clay one day course you will be working the only thing you will not be making as the emergence and popularity of 25 October 2019 4 May 2019
but, when fired, is transformed into from a selection of set designs that is the squeak! ghost stories and indeed of Father What do you do with your novel once On this course you will learn why
fine silver. You will be taught how can be improvised, using a wonderful M £110 • NM £130 Christmas himself. the first draft is complete? This course you might want to do a DNA test for
to use silver clay to create pieces array of glass with different colours M £150 • NM £170 covers how to edit your novel, and family history, and also why you might
to produce stunning jewellery. You will and textures. Wool Applique Pincushion: what to look for in the editing process. not want to! What are the different
also learn some traditional techniques M £125 • NM £145 Sallieann Harrison Creative Writing: Writing Credible Dialogue It introduces Debrah’s own special kinds of tests and who are they
to finish your piece professionally. 8 July 2019 and Developing your Author’s ‘Voice’: editing system, enabling authors suitable for? If you decide to do it,
M £105 • NM £125 Stained Glass Panels for Beginners: In this session we will cover all Debrah Martin to critically review and organise the there are several different companies
Anna Conti the basics of fused wool applique 17 June 2019 mass of work that potentially needs that you can use, and we will look at
Silver Clay Jewellery: Make a Silver Leaf: 8 July 2019 to cotton backgrounds whilst making to be done to polish a manuscript the advantages of each one. After you
Voices – two of the most difficult
Louise Simmonds Make your own beautiful genuine a weighted pincushion. We will cover aspects of a novel to crack – yours ready for publication. have made the decision, sent off your
21 June 2019 stained glass A4 abstract hanging a variety of hand stitches and discover and your characters’! In this one-day M £150 • NM £170 sample, and got your results, there
This is a really exciting and creative panel or small window, using the best fusibles/needles and threads workshop you will learn how to write are several things that you need to do
form of jewellery making, using traditional techniques unchanged for this type of work. credible dialogue that drives your story Creative Writing: Autobiographies – to get the best from your results. We
silver clay which, when fired, is for years. Professional stained glass M £125 • NM £145 forward and also examine what makes Turning Bare Fact to Fantastic (non)Fiction: will help you to share your family tree
99.9% pure silver. You’ll be taught artist Anna Conti will introduce the up your own unique way of storytelling Debrah Martin so that matches to other people can
how to transform a real leaf into a process and show you how to cut – your author’s ‘voice’. The workshop 9 September 2019 be discovered.
pure silver leaf to create a stunning glass, ‘lead up’, solder, cement will include practical ways to make Ever wanted to write your M £110 • NM £130
pendant or pair of earrings which and install your panel. your dialogue – and your characters – autobiography? But where do
look impressive but are in fact M £125 • NM £145 ‘real’, and how to use 1st, 3rd and the you start, and how do you turn
simple to make. Omniscient POV (Point of View) for
?
Textile Christmas Decorations: fact into compelling (non)fiction?
M £125 • NM £145 dramatic effect to tell your story. Autobiographies and biographies are
Pat Lumsdale
Did you M £105 • NM £125 still stories, and whether you are writing
know
30 November 2019 your life story to share with your family
Use scraps of fabric, threads, braids, or with a wider audience, this one-day
cords, ribbons and embellishments workshop will help you make it a page-
to produce attractive decorations with turner. You can use personal memories,
a Christmas theme. Some will take
On your next visit, pop
photographs, genealogy or even a will
into the Faberdashery Visit the website
a few minutes, some a lot longer, you
will produce at least four decorations. Shop - it’s an Aladdin’s
as the source of your facts, but learn
how to be a master of breathing life to read the full i
M £150 • NM £170 Cave of donated craft into bare bones and applying the skills course programmes, see
goods. You’ll be amazed of a polished writer to transform facts more images, and check
what you find in there! into fantastic (non)fiction. out any new additions!
M £105 • NM £125
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Day schools and family workshops Summer schools
Summer schools
Family History for Beginners: How to Write and Sell News and Feature We shall remember them: religion, the war
Jessica Feinstein Articles: Tony Padman dead and Remembrance in Britain 1914-1939:
16 November 2019 8 June 2019 Peter Street
A full introduction to researching This beginners’ course will introduce 7 November 2019
your own family history, taking a you to the basic skills required to write In the centennial year of the unveiling
professional approach to help you
create a family tree to be proud of.
articles that you can get published.
There are 20,000 different publications
of the Cenotaph the course considers CRAFT A French Connection in Ribbon Embroidery:
initially how (and which) war dead Marilyn Pipe
This informal course will give you covering every profession, hobby had been remembered in the past Mosaics: Priscilla Wheater 22-26 July 2019
an understanding of various methods and lifestyle, and they need writers and why remembrance of those 24-28 June 2019 A relaxing summer holiday in French
and sources, make you aware of either on a permanent or freelance who had died in the Great War were This course involves making mosaics fields without leaving Denman! On this
some of the pitfalls involved in basis. This course includes guidance treated differently – both during for outdoor items for the garden course you will create two beautiful
family history research, and equip on everything from generating ideas the conflict itself and its aftermath. or conservatory. We will create items pictures depicting typical scenes from
you with tips and advice. Students and what makes a great story to Aspects which feature include street using the direct method. You have the French countryside: one scene
must have a basic knowledge of asking the right questions, writing and shrines, the annual observance a varied choice of ideas: a small will be a field of stunning sunflowers,
using a computer and the internet editing. We will discuss journalistic of 4 August and the decision not garden table, a bird bath, which and another will depict a beautiful field
so that they can work on their own. skills, good and bad taste, and the to repatriate the dead together can be worked using old bases full of lavender complete with bees!
M £125 • NM £145 newspaper and magazine industry. with the emergence of the (then) that need resurrection or bought These pictures will be created using
M £125 • NM £145 Imperial War Graves Commission. from a garden centre. silk ribbons and embroidery threads
Also considered is the background M £610 • NM £670 to portray typical landscapes full of
to the Great Silence, the Unknown
Warrior and Festival of Remembrance Free Machine Embroidery: Claire Muir
beautiful blooms and foliage. The art
of sewing using silk ribbons combined
LIFESTYLE
and (battlefield) pilgrimages. 8-12 July 2019 with threads is relaxing, easy to learn
M £130 • NM £150
Enjoy Oxfordshire: John Vigar
This fun filled course will open up and has rewarding results. and Anna Steven
the world of free machine embroidery M £560 • NM £610 22-26 July 2019
to you. If you have heard of it but
On day one, visit Blenheim Palace,
?
wasn’t quite sure what it was all
which commemorates the life and
about then this is the course for
you. The techniques themselves are Did you achievements of John Churchill and
know
his descendants. On day two, visit
easy and you will see that with just
Kelmscott, the Oxfordshire home
a little practise how easy it is to “draw
of one of the most famous Arts and
with the needle”. You don’t need a
Crafts designers William Morris. In
complicated sewing machine to do Courses are practically the afternoon you will visit Buscot
this you just need to be able to lower all inclusive! Park, a National Trust property nearby
your teeth (or put a plate over them)
and put on a free-machine embroidery
Expert tuition, all with an extensive art collection and
accommodation, all inspirational gardens. On day three,
foot (darning foot).
refreshments, we can visit the heart of Oxford University
M £560 • NM £610
– the Sheldonian Theatre, Schools
even pick you up from Quad and Radcliffe Square. Stroll
the local station! through the colourful Covered Market
before lunch and a tour of Jesus
College. In the afternoon, following
a visit to New College and gardens,
take a Thames River Cruise to Iffley
Lock before returning to Denman for
afternoon tea. On the final day, the
course culminates with a morning
visit to the Ashmolean Museum.
M £675 • NM £735
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Special events Special events
Special events Shackleton, His Life
and Times with Isobel Wilson
Valentina Harris – Italian Chef & Author
– Talk, Demo and Q&A
14 May 2019
17 June 2019
Come and join Valentina for
Shackleton led three an authentic Italian culinary
Leisure and Entertainment in Victorian expeditions to the adventure as she shows
Antarctic and was a
and Edwardian Oxford crew member on a
you how to make some of
17 May 2019 her very favourite seasonal
fourth. He is famous dishes from various regions of
People come to Denman for escaping with all
to have a jolly good time! Italy, whilst regaling you with the
his crew, from the icy stories behind the food and her own
Curious how this was done grip of the Weddell Sea
a century or so ago? Hop back life experiences after over 50 years of cooking
during his momentous and learning about Italian food.
in time with Oxfordshire historian expedition of 1914-1916 and for his incredible 800
Liz Woolley as she gives a M £67 • NM £72
mile sail from Elephant Island to South Georgia. But
fascinating talk on the leisure he achieved more than this. In 1909 he got to within
and entertainment habits of 100 miles of the South Pole - the first expedition to
those in Victorian and Edwardian get so far on the Antarctic plateau. Join Denman and
Oxford. In the mid-nineteenth Basic Skills to Survive
Lights, Camera, Action! Blenheim Palace – star of TV and Film special guest, author Isobel Wilson, in an afternoon the Outdoors
century, the world was once discovering the life of this incredible explorer and his
again changing: With a little 3 June 2019 17-18 June 2019
journey through the Antarctic.
more time and money to spend, Come and join us for a fascinating day exploring what happens when Blenheim M £42 • NM £47 Join Bushcraft at Denman
recreational activities arose to Palace becomes a film location. The day starts at Denman with Antonia Keaney to learn the fundamental
meet the demand for something from Blenheim Palace giving an illustrated talk on how the Palace has been skills to survive the
to do. For a descriptive tour of used as a filming location in a huge variety of TV adverts and programmes, outdoors! During this one
period’s entertainment scene and has appeared in both Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters. The talk day event, you will grow
and discover why “habitual will show what actually happens at the Palace when Hollywood descends - in confidence and develop
drunkards” were “induced and what happens behind the scenes! After Antonia’s talk and a wonderful your knowledge of the four
to spend their evenings in lunch, we will take a coach across to Blenheim where you can spend the main principles: fire, food,
the library”…! afternoon exploring the wonderful house and gardens at your leisure before shelter and water. You
M £42 • NM £47 arriving back at Denman. will learn how to build an
M £67 • NM £72 emergency shelter using
only natural materials,
collect and purify contaminated water, and prepare
The Alchemy of Food The Dressmaker: Victorian your own meals using items foraged, among many
with Kumud Ghandi Extravagance in Detail other skills! This is a unique opportunity for those new
16 May 2019 7 May 2019 to the outdoors, or those with a little experience –
In this afternoon session Gorgeous gowns with fantastic either way, you’ll go home knowing that you can stay
with author and food scientist frills, dramatic decoration and safe, and keep your loved ones safe, in the outdoors!
Kumud Ghandi, you will discuss luscious lace abound in this M £159 • NM £169
the relationship between talk celebrating the skill of
the chemistry in every day the Victorian dressmaker.
ingredients and how they Celebrate the sumptuous An Afternoon with Simon King OBE
affect your body. This thought styles of the era whilst Cotswold Lavender Tour and Talk
provoking session, with also considering the 25 July 2019 9 July 2019
audience participation, will look at why we eat what we cost of the gowns Simon King OBE ‘Naturalist, Conservationist, Author, It’s the lavender season and we’ve got a right treat
eat, how food has evolved, and how our food habits have on the women who Artist and Broadcaster is an aficionado of capturing for you! Join us at Denman for an insightful talk and
changed over time. A lovely range of herbs and spices made them. See the natural world (receiving an Honorary Fellowship demonstration by Cath from My Scented Home who
will be used to illustrate common misconceptions and how what the dressmaker of the Royal Photographic Society in 2011). As a will tell you all about the wonderful world of lavender
they are used in modern medicine and cuisine. Kumud will wears to dress the passionate conservationist Simon specialises in and how best to use it in your craft projects! After lunch,
show you how simple ingredients, when blended together, debutante in her new wildlife documentaries. His extensive knowledge we’ll be whisking you away to Cotswold Lavender for a
can create the most wonderful flavours. Join us at Denman fabulous frock with original and expertise behind a camera has seen his tour of their field and distillery. Learn all about how mass
and get ready to change your perception of diets and food, examples on display for you work included in many programmes including lavender is harvested and how best to care for the plant.
and go home with a sense of knowing how to improve to study and admire. the BBC’s Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Springwatch You’ll also go away with great ideas of what to do with
quality of life and wellbeing. M £42 • NM £47 and Autumnwatch to name but a few. lavender once you’ve picked it!
M £42 • NM £47 M £57 • NM £62 M £67 • NM £72
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Cookery Cookery
Cookery
Abundant Harvest: Linda Hewett Artisan Drinks: Lindy Wildsmith Autumn in Italy: Lindy Wildsmith
11-13 September 2019 24-26 June 2019 28-30 October 2019
Let’s take time to contemplate the Learn to make your own delicious Italian regional food is governed
marvellous summer we’ve had and seasonal cordials, infusions, cocktails by the seasons and the produce
how it’s furnished us with such an and mocktails... by capturing the they bring. What better way to
A Taste Of Italy - Part 1: Lindy Wildsmith abundant harvest. In this waste not scents and flavours of the summer celebrate the arrival of Autumn by
want not themed course, Linda will season and transforming them into creating elegant yet warming and
and Sue McKenna pass on her top tips and best recipes both alcoholic and soft drinks to comforting dishes with the colourful
21-23 August 2019 for making the most of courgettes, enable you to enhance ice cream, fruit, vegetables and nuts, meat
Whether you are planning a trip to tomatoes, apples and batch baking jelly, cakes, cocktails or to give as and game?
Italy, enjoy Italian cuisine or just want to fill your freezer. a gift. Cocktails and punches don’t M £400 • NM £440
to try out the language to see whether M £375 • NM £410 have to be alcoholic; learn which
you might like to learn it in the future, ingredients pack a punch to your Autumnal Baking: Jill Arthur
this is the course for you. Over the American Baking: Kelly Mauger drink but still allow you to drive home. 2-4 September 2019
two days you will learn conversational 17-19 May 2019 We will of course be making some Join Jill on a baking masterclass as
Italian, discover the history and culture Join Kelly for a trip stateside, as you alcoholic drinks too! she incorporates seasonal fruits and
of Italy and then cook up Italian bake your way through delicious M £375 • NM £410 vegetables into some of your favourite
favourites in the WI Cookery School. goodies and desserts including or soon to be favourite bakes.
Not to be missed! Florida’s key lime pie, donuts, Artisan Winter Preserves: Lindy Wildsmith Covering an array of cakes, doughs,
M £400 • NM £440 bagels, whoopie pies and New York’s 27-29 November 2019 biscuits and pastry, this course is
infamous cheesecake. If you are into jam making and one not to miss for anyone who loves
A Taste of Italy - Part 2: Lindy Wildsmith M £375 • NM £410 preserving, why not try your hand baking and wants to extend their
and Sue Mckenna Bread Baking for the Home - Part 1: Cake Decorating: Natalie Green
at our winter themed preserving recipe repertoire and knowledge. Alison Haigh 17-19 July 2019
23-25 October 2019 Artisan Bread: Dede Liss course featuring pumpkin and orange M £375 • NM £410
Take your bread making to another 9-11 September 2019 You will start with baking using a tried
This is a second instalment of our marmalade, ginger and lemon curd,
popular Italian cooking and language level by learning the art of sourdoughs Autumnal Jams, Pickles and Chutneys: Alison Haigh grew up in an artisan and tested recipe for a well risen and
spiced root vegetable chutney, firm cake with good keeping qualities
course and is suitable for anyone and long fermentation dough. Vivien Lloyd bakery and she will be sharing her
fermented pickled shallots, gut busting which is perfect for celebration
who completed part 1 or who already 28-30 June 2019 experience on this special weekend
Korean kimchi, confit of duck and 2-4 October 2019 cakes. Then you will look at all the
speaks a little conversational Italian. 19-21 July 2019 bread course. You will learn how four
potted venison. As the nights draw in and the trees professional techniques to prepare
Whether you are planning a trip to M £375 • NM £410 simple ingredients can be combined
M £400 • NM £440 shed their leaves, join us to preserve your cake for decoration, cover
Italy, enjoy Italian cuisine or just want to produce wonderful breads. Recipes
15-17 November 2019 Autumn fruits and vegetables for include rosemary and potato focaccia, with sugarpaste and add incredible
to try out the language to see whether the year ahead, using the traditional
you might like to learn it in the future, M £400 • NM £440 cinnamon swirls, sultana and walnut decorative touches. You will be
methods championed by the WI. loaf, and curried naan bread. stacking, dowelling, crimping,
this is the course for you. Learn how to make Autumn jams
M £375 • NM £410 colouring, making cut outs and
M £440 • NM £480 and pickles (sweet and savoury), flowers and even doing some royal
jelly, chutney, sauce and vinegar. Bread Baking For The Home - Part 2: iced piping. You will come away
A Taste of Spain: Peter Lien At the end of the course there will
14-16 October 2019 Alison Haigh with everything you need to know
be jars and bottles of eight different 16-18 October 2019 to create amazing cakes of your own
Spain is rightly famous for its simple recipes to take home. For those who
Following the success of Alison’s at home and some professional tips
cooking using fantastic produce. enjoy entering competitions, there will
introductory bread course, she is now and secrets too.
From classic paellas to the Moorish be hints and tips from the tutor who is
inspired cookery of Andalucia, offering Bread Baking for the Home - M £375 • NM £410
an NFWI Preserves Judge.
?
this course will cover some of the Part 2 to extend your knowledge and
M £400 • NM £440
skill base further. It is not essential Contemporary Indian Cookery:
most popular Iberian dishes. Plus
a selection of tapas dishes and some Did you that you have completed the first Bhavini Mistry
know course but it is desirable that you 13-15 September 2019
sweet treats too!
M £440 • NM £480 already have a basic knowledge of Join Bhavini for a weekend where
bread. You will make an overnight you will immerse yourself in an array
Join as a Friend dough, use the sponge method, of aromatic spices to create delicious,
practice shaping techniques and authentic Indian dishes with a
of Denman and save make a selection of breads to include contemporary twist that you can easily
10% off any course or English muffins, pumpkin bread and recreate at home. Dishes will include:
event - all year round! a delicious buttery citrus Pan de Mie. Chicken Tikka Massala, Aromatic
Membership is only M £440 • NM £480 Pilaf Rice, Chappatis, Tadka Dahl
and Pakoras.
£75 per year.
M £375 • NM £410
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Cookery Cookery
Cook Ahead For Christmas: Ashley Keen Edible Gifts: Kelly Mauger Gourmet Salads: La Dolce Vita: Italian Desserts and Sweet Mediterranean Breads: Dede Liss
11-13 December 2019 2-4 December 2019 Ashley Keen Treats: Mariella Bliss 3-5 May 2019
Take the stress out of Christmas by 9-11 December 2019 19-21 August 2019 3-5 July 2019 This is a course for anyone who loves
coming along to the cookery school There’s no gift as special as M £375 • NM £410 Join Mariella for a sweet-toothed trip bread! Dede will show you how to
to prepare many of the components something homemade so join us for a around Italy, featuring Italian sweet use the simplest of ingredients:
for your Christmas dinner and over cookery class that will not only get you
Peter Lien treat and dessert favourites including flour, water, salt and yeast alongside
the festive period, including stuffing, in the festive spirit but will also help 13-15 May 2019 Mediterranean flavours including olive
Pannacotta, Tiramisu, Brioche, Biscotti
gravy and side dishes, plus delicious you reduce your Christmas shopping! 26-28 June 2019 and a delicious Almond and Lemon oil, olives, aromatic herbs, spices
truffles. Take it all home and freeze in M £400 • NM £440 M £405 • NM £445 Capri Cake. Also, discover and enjoy and citrus, to make a fabulous variety
preparation for the big day so that you Forget limp lettuce and curling lesser known (but equally delicious) of breads, some of which you may
can relax and enjoy yourself, knowing Everyday Preserves: Vivien Lloyd cucumbers, salads have gone glam! recipes like Venetian carnival favourite already be familiar with and some
that all of the hard work has already 15-17 January 2020 Salads are no longer an afterthought ‘Chiacchiere’ (silly chats!) and Tuscan which will be brand new!
been done! Join us to make a range of recipes or a side dish. They can be a real ‘Schiacciata’, a sweet focaccia filled M £375 • NM £410
M £400 • NM £440 to keep, eat and share, using the showpiece of the dinner table. and topped with grapes, fennel seeds,
traditional methods championed A selection of satisfying, interesting rosemary and Vin Santo! Let’s Make Cheese - Part 3 (The Blues): Mediterranean Cuisine: Peter Lien
Curries of the World: Peter Lien by the WI. Learn how to make a salads that will cover dinner, lunch M £375 • NM £410 Louise Talbot 17-19 June 2019
13-15 November 2019 marmalade, jam, chutney, curd, pickle, or both, eat as they are or topped 25-27 September 2019 Food that bursts with colour, sunshine
This course will be a real adventure. syrup, and fruit in alcohol. For those with a piece of fish or meat. No boring Let’s Make Cheese - Part 1: Louise Talbot Louise will show you how to make and healthy ingredients. Join our
Take a journey into cuisines that you who enjoy entering competitions, there packed lunches ever again! 8-10 July 2019 blue cheese and a range of delicious cruise through the Med stopping
haven’t tried before. The Caribbean, will be hints and tips from the tutor M £375 • NM £410 goodies also incorporating blue off in sun drenched ports of Greek
Malaysia, and even South Africa – who is an NFWI Preserves Judge. Heritage Wheat Special - Bread Weekend: cheeses. This is a follow-on course so islands, North Africa, France and Italy.
30 October - 1 November 2019
they all have their own curries. So join M £400 • NM £440 Dede Liss M £400 • NM £440 it is essential that you have completed We’ll make the most of the fantastic
us to sample fragrant fish, meat and 31 July - 2 August 2019 the introductory course first as it ingredients that the region has to offer
vegetable dishes flavoured with spice Express Dinner Parties: Ashley Keen Many people are turning away from 27-29 January 2020
will have given you the grounding including olive oil from the groves of
pastes and powders. 11-13 November 2019 bread due to a difficulty digesting the M £400 • NM £440 and knowledge to make the more Greece, Italian cheeses, and piquillo
M £440 • NM £480 Take the stress out of cooking for high level of gluten in modern flours. Join farmer’s wife and cheese maker complex cheeses. peppers from Spain. Try Moroccan
dinner parties by learning some Heritage and ancient grains offer Louise Talbot for a fascinating course M £375 • NM £410 Chicken with Charmoula, Lebanese
Eastern Feasts: Ashley Keen speedy yet impressive starters, mains a solution as they contain a lower in making cheese at home. Louise Meze, and Italian Stuffed Peppers.
30 September - 2 October 2019 and desserts to wow your guests. percentage of gluten and so even will show you how to make a range Low Carb Living: Ashley Keen Who needs a holiday?
Simple, colourful and vibrant food M £400 • NM £440 those with a gluten intolerance find of soft cheeses using domestic 1-3 May 2019 M £405 • NM £445
from the great reaches of the Middle bread made with these flours easier kitchen utensils and cover halloumi, Are you looking to reduce the amount
East, guaranteed to bring sunshine Festive Baking: Jill Arthur to digest. Learn how to make your mozzarella, mascarpone, butter, of sugary foods, pasta and bread in
Mediterranean Magic in Autumn:
to any occasion. Explore techniques, 4-6 December 2019 own great bread using these flours on cream cheese, and ricotta, as well as your diet, but unsure how to keep Alex Mackay
ingredients and recipes inspired by Join Jill on a Festive baking this introduction course. Not suitable a discussion on the principles of hard. it exciting and tasty? This course 16-18 September 2019
travels through the Bosphorus, Black masterclass as she incorporates for coeliacs. will show you delicious meals that Autumn is a mystical time where
Sea, Aegean, Mediterranean, North seasonal ingredients and spices into M £375 • NM £410 Let’s Make Cheese - Part 2: Louise Talbot are high in protein, fat and healthy the harvests of wild mushrooms,
Africa, and Persia. some of your favourite or soon to be 23-25 August 2019 vegetables. The course will cover chestnuts and grapes set off a
M £375 • NM £410 favourite Christmas themed bakes. Italian Breads: Mariella Bliss M £375 • NM £410 family favourites that have been colourful landscape. The food is still
Covering an array of cakes, doughs, 28-30 August 2019 8-10 November 2019 adapted to use vegetables and pulses light with lots of the remaining joys of
biscuits and pastry, this course is Mariella Bliss has been successfully M £400 • NM £440 instead of pasta, potato or rice. There summer but warming enough to take
one not to miss for anyone who baking and selling focaccia and will also be dishes that are naturally you through to winter. This is holiday
loves baking and wants to extend ciabatta for over ten years. Come 29-31 January 2020 food made accessible to you at home.
high in protein like shakshuka baked
their recipe repetoire and knowledge and learn the secret of Italian bread M £400 • NM £440 eggs, or lentil dhal. This course will be full of dishes
to feed loved ones over the festive making using a biga starter or Louise will show you how to make M £375 • NM £410 that are ablaze with colour and full
period. handling a very wet dough for light clotted cream, plus a range of hard of vibrant flavours from everybody’s
M £400 • NM £440 but fully flavoured bread. The recipes cheeses, including cheddar and favourite cuisine.
to be made include; focaccia, ciabatta, camembert. She will also share some M £405 • NM £445
breadsticks and ‘schiacciata’ with great recipes that incorporate cheese.
grapes and vin santo. This is a follow-on course so it is
M £375 • NM £410 essential that you have completed
A Day Visit costs only the introductory course first as it
£30pp and includes will have given you the grounding Don’t forget you can
and knowledge to make the more
a full tour, lunch complex cheeses. book online - just head
and cream tea! to www.denman.org.uk
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Modern Cakes: Kelly Mauger Moorish and Middle Eastern - Menu 1: Patisserie - Part 1: Kelly Mauger Perfect Pastry: Kelly Mauger Summer Preserves: Vivien Lloyd
1-3 November 2019 Peter Lien 10-12 June 2019 SOLD OUT 2-4 August 2019 19-21 June 2019
17-19 January 2020 3-5 June 2019 4-6 November 2019 If you are a fan of the Great British Celebrate the arrival of summer
Join Kelly for a cake baking and At the crossroads of Europe, Asia and This patisserie course will cover Bake Off or have always found by joining us to make preserves using
decorating course using traditional Africa, the region known as the Middle many of the classics of French pastry pastry challenging, why not join our recipes championed by the Women’s
and contemporary techniques to East has taken its culinary influences work using an array of skills which masterclass and take your skills to Institute. Suitable for beginners and
create two modern masterpieces, from many places and people, you will learn and practice, including a new level by learning how to avoid experienced preservers, capture
including an American chocolate fudge including the Moors. Learn about blind baking and piping. We will make crumbly pastry, soggy bottoms and the flavours of summer for the
cake covered in a seamless layer of the traditions of Moroccan, Persian base recipes of pate sucree, choux shrinking sides? You will perfect pate colder months ahead. Learn how
chocolate ganache and finished with and Lebanese cookery and local pastry and crème patissiere which sucree, shortcrust, choux, rough puff to make sweet and savoury jams,
mirror glaze, plus a 6 layer rainbow ingredients such as sumac, salted we will turn into Tart Au Citron, Choux and hot water pastry, which you will jelly, curd, cordial, chutney, vinegar
cake, decorated with ombre Swiss lemons, pistachios and rose water. Buns filled with Crème Diplomat and turn into an array of delicious goodies and preserve fruit in alcohol.
meringue buttercream frosting, Together you’ll make a delicious lunch Macarons. With these base recipes to take home, including ganache M £375 • NM £410
chocolate ganache drips and featuring of mezze salads and dips, then go on and skills learned during the course tarts, quiche, a pork pie, profiteroles
a melting ice cream illusion effect on to make Persian Chicken with Harissa you will be able to go home and create and sausage roles. Thai Cookery: Peter Lien Viennoiserie: Breakfast Pastries:
the top. Kelly will also demonstrate Pilaf, a fruity Tagine, and some a wide variety of patisserie items with M £375 • NM £410 29-31 May 2019
Katie Churchard
a 2 tiered Mojito inspired Genoese delicious Orange and Sumac biscuits. confidence and ease. Learn about the exciting flavours 7-9 June 2019
‘naked’ cake decorated using fresh M £405 • NM £445 M £400 • NM £440 Starters and Desserts: Katie Churchard of Thai cookery and the art of
24-26 January 2020 If you have ever been lucky enough
flowers and chrystalised mint leaves. balancing the characteristic taste
Moorish and Middle Eastern - Menu 2: Pizza, Pasta and Sauces: Mariella Bliss to stay at Raymond Blanc’s Manoir
M £400 • NM £440 Learn to create meat, fish and sensations of sweet, sour, saltiness
23-25 September 2019 aux Quatre Saisons, your croissants
Peter Lien vegetarian starters to impress at and heat. The course will feature
may have been made by Katie. Learn
Modern Vegetarian: Ashley Keen 20-22 January 2020 Join our authentic Neapolitan cook your dinner parties or to enjoy some of the country’s most famous
30 August - 1 September 2019 to make your own pain au chocolate,
If you loved Peter’s first Moorish and and tutor Mariella, to learn how to as a lighter meal, then finish with dishes, including salads, noodle
croissants, brioches and danishes
Are you or a family member Middle Eastern course, join him for make fresh pizza and pasta and a chocolate, fruit and sponge based dishes and, of course, curries made
from a true pastry master.
vegetarian? Love to have dinner further recipes, featuring a brand new extend your repertoire beyond dessert. Also learn about plating from home-made curry paste.
aesthetics and the use of colour M £375 • NM £410
parties but do not want to cook two selection of dishes from the region. bolognese sauce! Learn how to make M £405 • NM £445
different meals? Let us introduce The group will prepare a new range pizza dough and fresh egg and flour and texture to balance your plate. Winter Warming Baking: Jill Arthur
you to an array of exciting, modern of mezze dishes for lunch on the first pasta from scratch - tagliatelle, M £400 • NM £440 The Amalfi Coast on your Table: Mariella Bliss
6-8 November 2019
vegetarian meals. Even the carnivores day, and then move on to a variety of pappardelle and tagliolini, then create 15-17 May 2019
Summer Baking: Jill Arthur Join Jill on a baking masterclass as
will not miss the meat! slow cooked dishes, and sweet treats. some delicious and varied sauces Join Mariella Bliss as she takes you on
12-14 June 2019 she incorporates seasonal produce
M £375 • NM £410 M £440 • NM £480 which will compliment the pasta a culinary journey to the Amalfi Coast.
and spices into some of your favourite
shapes, including a mushroom and Join Jill on a baking masterclass as Cook together the most delicious
or soon to be favourite bakes.
Marsala sauce and the famous ‘pasta she incorporates seasonal fruits and scialatielli (traditional pasta shape)
Covering an array of cakes, doughs,
alla norma’ sauce, plus you will have vegetables into some of your favourite with prawns and lemon zest, bake
biscuits and pastry, this course is
an array of authentic toppings for or soon to be favourite bakes. sea bass with potatoes and cherry
one not to miss for anyone who loves
your pizzas to choose from. Covering an array of cakes, doughs, tomatoes, then discover the secret of
baking and wants to extend their
M £375 • NM £410 biscuits and pastry, this course is a perfect Neapolitan pizza. Learn to
recipe repetoire and knowledge.
one not to miss for anyone who loves make your own potato gnocchi alla
baking and wants to extend their sorrentina and enjoy a ‘lemon delice’ M £400 • NM £440
recipe repetoire and knowledge. and a glass (or two) of limoncello! World Street Food - Menu 1: Peter Lien
M £375 • NM £410 M £375 • NM £410 24-26 May 2019
Some of the most delicious food
in the world isn’t served in fancy
restaurants, but from stalls and carts
in bustling markets or on busy streets.
Why not take your tastebuds on a
global cookery tour visiting countries
Sign up to as diverse as Austria, Spain, Turkey,
the fortnightly i Mexico and Japan?
M £405 • NM £445
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Craft
An Introduction to Prophetic Art: Learn Beaded Decorations for Christmas: Beading the Russian Connection: Calligraphy: Gilding and illumination:
to Paint From Your Visions: Karen Jones Sally Boehme Sally Boehme Jan Mehigan
11-12 September 2019 2-4 December 2019 10-12 May 2019 5-6 September 2019
Have you ever wondered how artists Using tiny seed beads and lots of This bead weaving course will explore Learn the techniques of illumination
paint along to music in church or deliciously sparkly crystal beads you stitches with a Russian connection. St (gilding) and enjoy creating your own
3 Dimensional Tambour: Diana Vernon from dreams they have had? This will create a beautiful beaded bauble, Petersburg Chain stitch will be used decorated and illuminated letters or
and Lesley Coidan Christian-themed art session will allow a beaded snowflake and light-catching to create a beautifully sinuous set decorative motifs , which can perhaps
you to paint from an image triggered beaded icicle to hang on your including a necklace and a matching be used to enhance your calligraphy,
30 August - 1 September 2019
from your imagination or from a vision Christmas tree. They also make the (but different) bracelet, and Russian illuminate a miniature or create a
This course is suitable for students in response to a piece of music and ideal gift for loved ones that cannot Chevron Chain stitch will be used to single, vibrant decorative letter, using
who have completed the Level 1 a related story from scripture provided be found in any shop, however, after create a pretty pair of earrings (plus line, colour and gold (the “real” stuff
course, or equivalent, and will teach by your tutor. Everyone will produce all your efforts you may find it hard a necklace or bracelet if there is time) or gold gouache).
you how to combine wiring with different styles of artwork and will to part with them! to complete the ensemble to provide M £185 • NM £205
tambour. You will learn how to couch receive individual help if they need it. M £330 • NM £370 a full suite of jewellery to wear home!
down a wire using the tambour Calligraphy - Learn, Design Calligraphy: Gothic Script: David Nicholls
There will be a short practice piece M £330 • NM £370
technique to create a 3D flower, before engaging with the theme and Beaded Frozen Leaf Necklace: Julia Atkins and Create: Jane Lappage 23-26 May 2019
and in addition how to embellish work on a larger painting. 11-13 September 2019 Block Printing and Make a Lampshade: 8-10 January 2020 1-3 September 2019
this with a Victorian wired flower. M £185 • NM £205 The delicate leaves of this statement Maggie Sheehan Whether you are a beginner or The hand that springs to mind when
M £330 • NM £370 necklace are made using increasing 12-14 June 2019 returning to improve what you have the word calligraphy is mentioned is
Art: Pastels for Beginners: Michele Floyd and decreasing peyote stitch in the A wide variety of hand carved and already learnt, these two days will Gothic, or Black Letter as it is often
A Paper Bag But Not As You Know It: 10-12 June 2019 give you all you need to confidently
‘zig zag’ technique embellished sustainably sourced woodblock known. It is characterised by its
Marilyn Pipe A thoroughly enjoyable introduction to with Swarovski crystals and pearls. personalise your own style of this closed spaced upright strokes and
designs to choose from, and a lovely
7-10 May 2019 the beautiful effects that can be achieved The dainty strap is made in Russian beautiful script. You will be using a
selection of colours to work with. The has become much used to represent
M £460 • NM £515 with this delightful medium. It will cover Snake Chain embellished with fine point nib which is perfect for left anything ‘Olde English’. We will work
inks used are non-toxic, 100% vegan
25-27 September 2019 all the basics you need to know. pearls. This necklace is suitable and amazingly quick to dry. A simple, handers too. We will practice the from historic examples and study
M £330 • NM £370 M £300 • NM £340 for the intermediate or advanced but effective craft that is both fun and techniques in mastering this script basic calligraphy techniques, initially
beader who has a good knowledge therapeutic – you will create your own and look at layout and design. Using with a fibre tip pen and progressing
22-24 January 2020 Art: How to Approach Abstract Art; Express fantastic new metallic ink, you should
of peyote stitch. hand printed apron, tea-towel, greeting to a broad edged metal nib.
M £360 • NM £400 Powerful and Passionate Emotions with go home with a fabulous piece,
M £330 • NM £370 cards and reusable shopping bag! M £330 • NM £370
An exciting course exploring the Just Shapes and Colours: Richard Box picture, card etc. for special occasions
M £330 • NM £370
properties of ordinary printed paper 12-15 August 2019 Beading: Victorian Wired Beading: such as Valentine’s Day. Calligraphy: Working in Italics: David Nicholls
and turning it into a glorious designer Diana Vernon & Lesley Coidon Bumper Craft Take Away: Natalie Green M £360 • NM £400 2-4 July 2019
evening bag. By mixing prepared This course is an exciting opportunity
for you to express emotions, moods, 24-26 June 2019 4-6 June 2019 SOLD OUT The italic hand was developed during
magazine papers together with M £330 • NM £370
Calligraphy for Christmas: David Nicholls
sentiments and even your innermost You will learn how to construct the Italian Renaissance as a means
lining, stitch, wax and a little silk 29 November- 1 December 2019
feelings in purely abstract terms. beautiful beaded flowers, leaves, 9-11 October 2019 of speeding up the laborious process
embellishment, you will create a We will study versal capitals, drawn of handwriting a document. It is
Richard will explain how working with foliage and butterflies. These can M £360 • NM £400
unique accessory that you will be copies of Roman capitals, and how characterised by its forward slope,
lines, shapes and colours can produce be applied to hairpins and tiara bands,
proud to carry on a night out. Try your hand at a medley of different to construct them, there will be
unique and expressive pieces of or assembled as corsages or posies, elliptical ‘o’ and 45 degree pen angle.
craft projects with a contemporary various methods of decoration using
An Introduction to Hand Weaving on abstract art. so you can choose to make them During the course, you will study the
twist. You will make a number of small interlacing and filigree space-filling
a Rigid Heddle Loom: Linda Parkhouse M £460 • NM £515 to be either worn or used as basics of calligraphic techniques, the
projects to give you lots of lovely ideas designs, and advice on how to use
interior decorations. use of the broad-edged pen, inks and
1-3 July 2019 for your WI craft sessions, to decorate colour effectively. There will be
M £300 • NM £340 metal nibs. You will study in detail
?
30 September - 2 October 2019 your home or to give away as special discussion on the use of gold leaf and each of the letters in both the upper
28-30 October 2019 presents. There will be a range of another, simpler method of gilding,
Did you projects to try, using beautiful fabrics, which, unlike traditional methods of
and lower case alphabets, and study
know
Come and try your hand at modern the basics of design.
hand-weaving. If you’ve never tried felts, buttons, threads, beads, papers gilding, is guaranteed to work, and M £330 • NM £370
this traditional craft before then and all sorts! is virtually indistinguishable from the
you’re in for a treat! Using a simple more laborious methods.
rigid-heddle loom and a selection On your next visit, pop M £360 • NM £400
of supplied colourful hand-knitting into the Faberdashery
yarns, learn how to warp up a loom, Shop - it’s an Aladdin’s
start weaving and finish off a beautiful
shoulder bag to take home with you. Cave of donated craft
M £330 • NM £370 goods. You’ll be amazed
what you find in there!
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