Chairmaking and Green Woodwork with Gudrun Leitz
Members' Courses
April Green Woodwork Introduction
An ideal taster for beginners to become familiar with the basic tools and techniques of green woodwork.
Cost: £220
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Duration: 2 1/2 day course
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August 9 Day Chairmaking Course
A chance to tackle the design, construction and finishing of a more complex chair.
Cost: £560
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Duration: 9 day course
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Green Woodwork Course - Garden and Sculptural Seating
Using woodland materials and resources to make sculptural furniture.
Cost: £450
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Duration: 7 day course
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Green Woodworking & Chairmaking Course
Welsh Stick and Windsor Chairs.
Cost: £450
Start Date: Contact for info.
Duration: 7 day course
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A chance to tackle the design, construction and finishing of a more complex chair.
Cost: £560
Start Date: Contact for info.
Duration: 9 day course
Click for more information.
May Green Woodwork Introduction
An ideal taster for beginners to become familiar with the basic tools and techniques of green woodwork.
Cost: £220
Start Date: Contact for info.
Duration: 2 1/2 day course
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Enjoy a creative holiday in a beautiful part of Herefordshire, learning green woodworking skills and producing a unique piece of furniture to cherish for your home or garden.
Courses are run by Gudrun Leitz, a trained furniture maker and teacher. One of the leading exponents of greenwood crafts, Gudrun worked for three winters as master-pole-lathe turner to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, producing all its green oak balusters to original specification by hand. She makes a small range of unique free-form furniture to commission, and has been teaching Greenwood Courses since 1992. She is joint-owner of Clissett Wood.
Gudrun's programme of greenwood and chair making courses runs from May to September. The courses can fill up very quickly. If you would like to be notified of Gudrun's course programme for the following year please email gudrun@greenwoodwork.co.uk.
Course Venue
Clissett Wood (near Ledbury) Located west of the Malvern Hills, Clissett Wood is a ten acre semi-natural ancient woodland situated within a truly rural area yet within five miles of the Intercity rail network and within easy reach of the M5 motorway. It is the setting for a large woodland workshop with adjacent kitchen area offering running water, camping area, a clay oven and compost toilet. The workshop is comprehensively equipped with steam-bending and cleaving equipment and a pole-lathe, shavehorse and tool-set for each course member.
Disabled Access
Please contact me to discuss special access requirements etc.
Gudrun Leitz
Hill Farm
Stanley Hill
Bosbury
Herefordshire
HR8 1HE
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Phone: 01531 640125
Email: gudrun@greenwoodwork.co.uk