GREEN WOODWORKING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
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Traditional Green Woodworking Courses near Bristol, Newport & Cardiff
For anyone wishing to find green woodworking courses near Bristol, Newport or Cardiff, we offer practical green woodworking courses and workshops from our woodland workshop in Monmouthshire. We are just 40 minutes from Bristol, 20 minute from Newport and 45 minutes from Cardiff.
In our green wood working courses you will learn traditional woodland craft skills using green freshly felled wood and hand tools. all of our courses are suitable for absolute beginners and those wishing to develop their woodland craft skills, and we provide practical teaching on working with green wood in a calm and supportive atmosphere.
Over the summer months we offer a range of green wood working workshops including spoon carving courses, stool making courses, shavehorse building workshops, spatula carving evenings and traditional bench making or coffee table making courses. We also offer private tuition or group workshops and every green woodworking course is taught in a relaxed environment with small group sizes and plenty of individual guidance.
Green Wood courses are an excellent way to learn woodworking. By using freshly cut wood, participants learn to work the wood efficiently using traditional tools such as froes, axes, drawknives, carving knives, rounding planes, spoke shaves, and many more. The result is a rewarding woodworking experience that connects people with nature, traditional woodland crafts and sustainable materials.
If you are looking for a woodworking course near Bristol, Cardiff or Newport or in South Wales or the South West, our woodland setting provides an inspiring place to learn Practical Skills, spend time outdoors and create something beautiful that you get to take home.
Celi has been teaching Green Woodworking in the Bristol / South west / Monmouthshire area since 2017. We offer 1 and 2 day Green Woodworking courses include Tea, Real Coffee and Biscuits and camping and firewood for the 2 day stool / Coffee table /Bench making courses.
"Celi has a kind and gentle presence combined with a sense of deep knowledge and connection to the subject. Celi created an environment that was very safe and welcoming with time to stop and have tea as well and working. " -
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Green Woodworking Courses Near Bristol
Many people find us when searching for a woodworking course in Bristol. Our woodland workshop is located approximately 40 minutes from Bristol and is easily accessible from Newport, Cardiff, Chepstow and across the South West and South Wales.
Students regularly travel from Bristol to attend our green woodworking workshops because of the unique woodland setting, traditional skills focus and hands-on learning experience. Camping is also available for 2 day courses.
If you are looking for green woodworking courses in Bristol or the surrounding area, our workshops offer a view of what woodworking was like using traditional green woodcraft and woodland skills.
Green Woodworking course FAQ's
What is Green Woodworking?
Before we used loads of power to haul huge logs out of the wood and mill them up people used to go into the woods with a few tools and stay there for weeks or months felling trees and making all sorts of items from them in situe. they would then dry the items in the woodland and take them out when they were as light as they would be to save energy. It is a very different woodworking experience to a dusty loud workshop with endless tools.
Do I need woodworking experience?
Absolutely not, in-fact we really encourage anyone who has no experience because we love doing green woodworking and want to share the joy of woodwork and green woodworking with everyone. A certain level of manual dexterity is required however.
What tools are provided?
We provide all neccessary tools from axes to drawknives, shave horses, pole lathes, chisels, froes, spokes shaves and more. If you have your own tool you would like to use, bring it along and we can do our best to make that happen.
How far are you from Bristol?
Our green woodworking courses are held in Golden Hill Wood 40 minutes from central Bristol, 45 Minutes from Cardiff and 20 minutes from Newport.
What should I bring to a green woodworking course?
You will need to bring Lunch if the courses is a full day or 2, toe covered shoes, weather appropriate clothing as the workshop has a roof but no sides, we will provide hot drinks including real coffee and biscuits. If you are camping on a two day course you will need to bring camping gear as well as your own water supply as we have no tap on site. We will provide firewood for the evening though.
Are green woodworking courses suitable for beginners?
Yes, completely and utterly.