Events

Connaught Textile Crafters are meeting in the Museum of Country Life, Turlough, Near Castlebar.

The dates for 2009 and demonstrations are as follows:

31/07/2010 Embroidery on sticks
25/09/2010 Textile clowns
27/11/2010 Canvas Embroidery

11am - 4pm Come and meet our group, watch how wool is carded and spun. Everyone is welcome to attend meetings. First time observers can attend free, if attend again either pay one-off attendance fee of €5 or the annual fee of €20.

If you intend to spend the day with the group bring your knitting, crochet etc.

THE CRAFT FAIR, THE LINEN HALL, CASTLEBAR, date to follow

Come along and meet the makers and browse unique crafts, leather ware, jewellery, wood craft, textile art and more!

Phone Brendan Murphy for details 087 698 7340

Glass Bead Making For Beginners at Mulranny - Saturday 19th June 2010

Making glass beads involves working on a 'torch' (actually a burner). You will be comfortable with it in no time at all. During the two days of workshop you will cover all the basics for confident and easy beadmaking; preparing the mandrels around which the molten glass is wound, lighting up the torch and working in the flame, shaping the glass for your desired shape of round, tabular, barrel or bi-cone. You will learn to pull stringers (thin rods for decorating) to make dots and lines, which can be manipulated into all kinds of patterns and designs on the surface of your bead. It is all about temperature, timing and gravity. You will have a choice of colors and soon will be enjoying the mesmerizing transformative process of working molten glass to make beads.

Price €75.00  10am till 4pm
Includes: Tuition and supplies and lunch.

Cheryl Cobern Browne
Heather Rise House, Mulranny/Westport Co. Mayo, Ireland
353 (0)87 207 1641 Essence of Mulranny (E.O.M.)
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