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Create a wooden stool

Fri 26 Jun and Sat 27 Jun
Friday 26 Jun 2026, 10.15am-Saturday 27 Jun 2026, 4.15pm,


£199 including all materials and lunch both days The Oxfordshire Museum OX20 1SN About the workshop This is a 2-day workshop where the participants will learn all the skills behind stool making. A chance to let your creative juices flow and produce a unique functional stool or small table which you can treasure for ever! You will start with a log and using all hand tools and traditional techniques you will create a unique one-of-a-kind stool or small table to take home and use. This is a two day workshop 10.15am - 4.15pm on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June. About the Tutor Charles Ash is known for his unique, stylish furniture pieces, Charles selects only the most elegant lines from the trees he collects to bring a flow to his work which can only be found in nature. This symbiotic relationship he has with nature and the rolling Oxfordshire landscape in which he works is an ever-present inspiration. It was after a successful career as a theatre set builder and enthused by his time working at the historical Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre that a love of hand tools and historical methods made Charles want to follow another path. This and a desire to make objects for people to cherish and use in their homes led Charles to a simpler, traditional and naturally more eco-friendly approach to furniture construction. He immediately set about learning the pre-industrial methods of not only the making of furniture by hand, which married seamlessly with his ideals of a greener way, but also the skills in selecting his timber from traditional native coppiced woodland. He travelled, meeting and working with some of the country’s leading greenwood workers, furniture makers and coppice workers as well as learning from wood workers around the world. Charles is now using his expertise and passion to educate, through his workshops, demonstrations and lectures, that a simpler, healthier way doesn’t have to compromise design... READ MORE>

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