Autumn and winter at Vorkurs

Short courses in three shops: wood, print and clay. Each week a lesson to read between shop days, a session at the bench, and work your tutor marks.

Dates

5 October Began: Joinery by hand, Letterpress and type, and Throwing on the wheel
2 November Begins: Green woodworking: a stool
16 November Begins: Screen printing posters
11 January Begins: Glazes and firing
5 FebruaryLast shop day: Glazes and firing

Sixteen benches under north light, a rack of planes and chisels, and the joints that hold furniture together, cut by hand.

Two Albion presses, a proofing press and forty cases of wood and metal type, with screen beds for posters at the far end.

Eight wheels, a slab roller and two kilns. Stoneware clay, and glazes weighed and mixed in the shop.

Course	Shop	Starts	Weeks	Tuition	Places left
Joinery by handPlane a board true, then cut the housing, the mortise and the tenon, and glue up a small wall shelf.	Wood	5 October	8	£640	1
Letterpress and typeSet metal and wood type by hand, lock it up and print a run of cards and a two-colour poster.	Print	5 October	8	£560	Full
Throwing on the wheelCentre clay, throw cylinders and bowls, turn a foot ring and glaze what you made.	Clay	5 October	8	£600	1
Green woodworking: a stoolCleave fresh ash, shape it on the shaving horse and make a three-legged stool with a woven seat.	Wood	2 November	6	£480	6
Screen printing postersCoat and expose screens and print a three-colour poster run by hand.	Print	16 November	6	£450	6
Glazes and firingMix glazes from raw materials, test them and load and fire the kiln.	Clay	11 January	4	£360	6