• Connect with your local creative community.
• Participate in exciting workshops.
• Buy handmade arts and crafts directly from the Makers.

Are you an Artist interested in participating? Book your table HERE

Date: Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th August 2026

Time 12 – 5PM

Free Entry

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Golden honey tastings and a chance to compare flavours.

Friendly Q&A’s with our bee man and garden team

Bee-spotting and plant trails through the walled garden

Space to picnic, pause and enjoy the summer air

Pimms stall, hot drinks and cake available from the cafe.

FREE ENTRY

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Feltmaking is one of the oldest textile crafts in the world, used in nomadic cultures for centuries as a way to make carpets, boots, clothes and portable homes known as yurts. Today it is also a popular textile craft that allows you to create unique practical and artistic items from 2D art to sumptuous wearables.

In this workshop you will learn how to make a unique felted vessel using the wet felting technique with Corriedale wool and decorative yarns.

You will learn how to:

• blend and lay out wool fibres,
• how to incorporate other fibres for surface decoration,
• how to use a resist for 3D work and
• how to manipulate your work to create shape and detail.

Lesley will demonstrate each step and give students individual help and advice.

The workshop fee includes a pack of wool fibres together with other fibres for decoration, plus the use during the workshop of the feltmaking equipment required.

However, participants will need to bring the following:

• Old towel; a large hand towel or small bath towel is ideal.
• Plastic jug or bowl (big enough to hold 2 litres of water in & to put your work in)
• Bar of soap or handwash soap flakes. Soap should be either olive oil or glycerine, not a type that is very creamy as it will produce too much lather. Olive oil soap can be bought at most health food shops.
• Plastic bag to take wet work home.
• Apron – optional
• Notebook & pen or pencil to make notes – optional

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• Connect with your local creative community.
• Participate in exciting workshops.
• Buy handmade arts and crafts directly from the Makers.

Are you an Artist interested in participating? Book your table HERE

Date: Friday 13th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November 2026

Time 12 – 5PM

Free Entry

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