COURSES

Yurt Making Course 2008

The course is fully booked but we plan to run another later in the year, if you are interested please let us know . (january 08).

Finally some dates and details for the yurt making course ........

It will be a six day course spread over three weekends over three months. This timescale has worked well in the past giving time in between sessions to work on your yurt at home.

The aim of the course is to give you the knowledge to build your own 12ft or 16ft yurt .

The course will cover:

• yurt history, styles and design
• woodland walk & selection of wood & other materials
• use of hand tools and shaping components
• wood steaming and wheel making
• finishing and final assembly of components
• cover design

You will make your own fulyl spoked and morticed wheel and make a start on the rest of the components (you won't be able to complete your yurt in 6 days so you will need to have time at home to do some work on it between sessions). There will be an opportunity to see a slide show of visits made to mongolia and the Kyrgyz republic and optional video screenings of dvds featuring yurts and gers. On the saturday night you can either sleep in a shared 16ft yurt with carpet and stove or in local bed and breakfast accomodation .

Dates:

19th, 20th January weekends start at 9.30am - 5pm with evening slides/dvd

16th, 17th February

15th,16th March

Cost: £360 per person for six days, includes simple lunch and refreshments but not materials .

Shared yurt accomodation £7 per night per person

Number of people: six-eight with 2 tutors

Location: St. Breward, Cornwall , PL304LP. The workshop is situated on the edge of Bodmin Moor with views across North Cornwall towards the sea.

Yurtworks is one of the longest running yurt making businesses in the UK. TimHutton has been making yurts for 10 years and has visited yurt makers in the Kyrgyz republic in 1999 and Mongolia in 2004 and 2005 .Richard Stephenson has been an apprentice at Yurtworks for over a year.

Booking:

• To register on the course contact us by phone or email . 01208850670 or, info@yurtworks.co.uk
• To secure your place a 50% advance payment is payable , with the balance payable one month before the course starts.

 

Longbow Making Course at Yurtworks.....26th-27th July and 2nd-3rd August 2008

An excellent opportunity to explore the ancient craft of the longbow maker, fletcher and string maker .

The course will cover:

• History of bows and bowmaking
• Selection of wood  and bow design.
• Shaping the wood,tillering, and finishing.
• Making the string from natural flax.
• Arrow making and fletching with goose quill.
• Shooting the finished bow.

Materials and specialist tools will be supplied.

The course will be run by Terence Carr, a maker of beautiful bows with 10 years professional experience in all areas of the bowmakers craft.

The course is taking place in the Yurtworks workshop, a traditionally designed but modern timber frame barn, on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

The course costs £240 per person for the four days for four people plus £25 for materials. This price also includes tea, coffee and simple lunch each day. There is usually accomodation here on the small holding in a shared 12ft yurt at £10 per night or there is local B and B accomodation.

A 50% deposit will be payable at time of booking with the balance payable one month before the course starts. For more details and to make a booking please contact Tim at timhutton@yurtworks.co.uk . Location details can be found on the yurt holidays section of this site.

updated March 2008