As our Skills for the Future courses continue, so do the traditional skills and crafts that our group of six 3 month trainees get to try out. This week they headed down to the Smithy, on their first day mastering the basic techniques, as well as finishing the day having created a poker.
Day two and they had to engage their creative side, and let the ideas flow as they were set the task of designing and making something that could be sold in the Museum shop.
With creations such as a picture frame, a sun shaped wall hanging, an egg cup and an ash shovel being made its clear that there's some excellent teaching and fast learning going on. Our trainees are always so incredibly eager to learn, and its fantastic to see these real traditional heritage skills being taught on site to the benefit of not only those learning, but to everyone who visits us who can watch a live demonstration.
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