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Children’s Stool Making Class
For children aged 11-17. Come for a day during the school holidays and make a stool together.
Perfect for absolute beginners!
Do you know a child who is interested in starting their journey into woodwork? This class is run exactly the same as our adult’s stool making class. The price is for a guardian and child duo to create one three legged stool together, with the adult supervising the child throughout the day. The adult is able to step in as little or as much as they would like/is needed. I have over 6 years experience teaching adults and 4 years experience teaching children aged 11-18, and will be on hand to guide you both through the process from start to finish.
You will master some of the core aspects of furniture making, as you craft a simple, robust and beautiful 3-legged stool from cleft chestnut and seasoned hardwood seat. On this course you learn core skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, including using shavehorses, drawknives, and planes, and constructing solid joints with age old through and wedged round tenons.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked
Protected: Woodcrafters Sessions
Make a bug hotel using basic hand tools and techniques. Introduce your children to marking, measuring, sawing, glueing, and hammering with this fun workshop.
£150 Gift Voucher | 1 Day Workshop
The perfect gift for friends and loved ones hungry to get into woodwork, or a treat to yourself that you can save for a rainy day!
This voucher entitles the recipient to a £150 discount when booking one of our traditional woodworking courses.
What Green Wood Guild classes can I book with this voucher?
The Green Wood Guild Gift Voucher can be used when booking any class that is worth £150 or more, perfect for our day classes. For the Knife Forging Day please buy the Knife Forging Day Voucher.
How does the voucher work?
When you buy a voucher you’ll get an automatic confirmation email.
You’ll then receive an email from us with your coupon code, and we will post you out a voucher.
Each voucher comes with a unique coupon code – for a discount of £150. Codes last for 12 months.
NOTE – Vouchers can only be used once. All of our courses are non refundable and cannot be changed once booked.
£175 Gift Voucher | Knife Forging
The perfect gift for friends and loved ones hungry to get into woodwork, or a treat to yourself that you can save for a rainy day!
This voucher entitles the recipient to a £175 discount when booking one of our traditional woodworking courses, perfect for our Knife Forging Class.
What Green Wood Guild classes can I book with this voucher?
The Green Wood Guild Gift Voucher can be used when booking any class that is worth £175 or more.
However you would not be able to use the voucher to purchase any class that is worth less than the value of the voucher itself.
How does the voucher work?
When you buy a voucher you’ll get an automatic confirmation email.
You’ll then receive an email from us with your coupon code and we will post you a voucher.
Each voucher comes with a unique coupon code – for a discount of £175. Codes last for 12 months.
NOTE – Vouchers can only be used once. All of our courses are non refundable and cannot be changed once booked.
Bowl or Kuksa Carving Day Workshop
A one day introduction to carving hollow forms – please add which you would like to carve in checkout notes!
10am to 6pm
Learn to make a beautiful wooden bowl or kuksa from native green hardwood using ancient hand tools. The adze, used to hollow out the bowl, has been in our culture since the stone age and is a wonderful introduction to the other traditional edge tools used to create your bowl. Over the course of the day you will use an axe and drawknife to shape the outside of the bowl, and a gouge and hook knife to refine the inside.
Or you could turn your hand to carving a beautiful kuksa – a traditional scandinavian style of drinking cup. The ideal tool for drinking coffee develops a rich patina from the coffee grounds. Most folk that start to use them become inseparable from them. Great to use at home but also much better in a backpack than a fragile and heavy ceramic mug.
In addition to giving you an introduction to a variety of hand tools, this course will give you a real insight into the design and function of objects which has been used by humans for thousands of years.
This class runs from 10:00 to 18:00, during which time you will learn many different carving techniques, learn about how green wood differs from seasoned wood, and of course, at the end of the day you will take home a beautiful, functional wooden bowl or kuksa.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
You must be 18 years old and older to take this class.
Hangboard Workshop with Steep Learning Group
Come and make your own bespoke wooden hangboard using otherwise discarded off-cuts of UK grown Ash.
18:30 – 21:30
All material, tools and know-how are provided. No woodworking experience needed. Walk home with a hangboard crafted by your own two hands.
Hosted by Steep Learning Group, in collaboration with The Green Wood Guild.
This course takes place at their workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG.
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
Whittling Workshops
Weekend Whittling Workshops
Our whittling workshops aims to introduce you to the basics of working with green wood. Perfect for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the world of woodwork.
Spatula & Butter Spreader Carving
Spatulas are one of the true workhorses of the kitchen. Why not learn how to carve your own, to whatever design you want? Come and learn the basics of green wood carving, using a Mora straight knife and a piece of green wood to carve a beautiful spatula, ready to be put to use. Learn how to carve a Swedish style butter spreader using basic knife grips and lovely green wood. Also perfect to use for serving condiments.
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
You must be 18 years old and older to take this class.
Furniture Making Workshops
Come for a day and make a stool or a whole weekend and take home a bench!
10am – 6pm Saturday/Sunday
These workshops run concurrently and are perfect for absolute beginners.
Master some of the core aspects of furniture making, as you craft a simple, robust and beautiful 3-legged stool, or 4 legged bench, from cleft chestnut and seasoned hardwood Ash seat. On this course you learn core skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, including using shavehorses, drawknives, and planes, and constructing solid joints with age old wedged round tenons.
For someone who wants to invest a little more time in creating a larger piece of furniture for the home – the bench making teaches all the same techniques as the stool making. You will learn the same core skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, and if you wish, use the Japanese scorching technique of Shou Sugi Ban to give your bench a gorgeous dark finish.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated.
All materials are included.
Classes are non refundable and non transferrable once booked.
You must be 18 years old and older to take this class.
If you are currently unwaged or low income and would like to come on the class, please get in touch via info@thegreenwoodguild.com for concessionary rates.
Knife Forging Day Workshop
One day workshop – 9am to 5pm
These knife forging classes at the Green Wood Guild guide you through making your very own carving knife. Being able to take a rough bit of stock steel and turn it into a beautifully functioning edge tool is extremely satisfying, and very empowering!
On this one-day class you will learn how to make a ‘straight’ knife, the perfect wood carving tool used for everything from spoons to shrink pots, as well as being useful in many other larger projects. This class is suitable for people with no tool making experience. You will forge and sharpen your own blade, as well as carving the handle, walking away with a beautiful new tool!
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated.
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
You must be 18 years old and older to take this class.