Chairmaking Workshops with Rotary Planes

At
URCHFONT MANOR COLLEGE
in the heart of the Wiltshire countryside

Windsor Chair Class at Urchfont Manor

Windsor Chair Classes at Urchfont Manor


Thank you so much for for such an interesting and instructive course. I know I thoroughly enjoyed it, as I am sure the others did. We all appreciated your and Patricia's patience and good humour and the long hours you put in to make the week such fun.


Make a Chair
with
Peter Hindle of Ashem Crafts

6 Day Course At Urchfont Manor Wiltshire

URCHFONT MANOR
Urchfont
Devizes
Wiltshire
SN10 4RG

For Chair making

Monday April 21st - Saturday April 26th 2008

Monday 28th July - Saturday 2nd August 2008

Monday 22nd September - Saturday 27th September 2008

Prospectus is now available for the 2008 courses from the college.

Participants can choose from 12 alterternative chairs (see pictures below) either Windsor style, Shaker chairs or English ladder backs.

To book a course please contact Urchfont Manor:
Website : http://www.urchfontmanor.co.uk/
Tel : 01380 840 495
Email : urchfontmanor@wiltshire.gov.uk

Course Fees - please contact us for further information

This course is for anyone interested in making either a Windsor style or English or American ladderback chair. With the use of Ashem rotary planes and allied equipment, each student should complete the component parts for a chair of their choice within the six day workshop. Everyone will have the use of the rounders and Ashem equipment. Each participant will have the opportunity to steam bend parts of their own individual chair using the windlass and forming jigs.

Chair materials will be extra and charged individually.

Shaker rocker chair Shaker settee Shaker Elder's chair
Comb back Windsor Comb back Welsh chair Gimson ladderback
Hoop back chair Fred Lambert Rocker Splat back windsor

Stick back Windsor Children's chairs Continuous armchair

Double Bow Windsor made by Leslie Hall of Frome, Somerset. Leslie has attended 4 consecutive chair courses at Urchfont Manor.

Urchfont Manor is set in 10 acres of beautiful parkland in the heart of the Wiltshire countryside a few miles south of the historic market town of Devizes. The grounds include a walled garden, orchards, croquet lawns and magnificent mature trees. The manor lies on the edge of the picturesque village of Urchfont with its thatched cottages, duck pond and village greens - an oasis of calm. 

Urchfont offers credit card facilities so bookings can be made between the hours of 11.00 & 16.00 on weekdays by calling 01380 840495.

Shaker chairs made at Urchfont

Frame made by Mr peter Atkins at Urchfont Manor. Seat woven with diamond pattern by Mrs Rosemary Atkins

Ladder Back Chair Course

About the Tutor

The course tutor, Peter Hindle, has been making and using rotary planes for over twenty five years. He has been involved in adult education and has been a craft teacher in schools and colleges for over thirty five years. He has demonstrated the techniques of making a Shaker chair and run workshops at the Shaker Art of Craftsmanship Exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. This will be the 10th year he has taken Shaker chair workshops in the USA and England.

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