Off- the-Loom Bead Weaving
Time: Wednesdays, 7-9PM, Nov. 16 & 30
Four hours of instruction and all materials provided.
Semi-precious stone beads and pearl accent beads, beads in various colors and sizes, needles, weaving materials, work surface, storage box.
Tuition: $75, Class limit: 8
Chair Caning
Time: Tuesday, 7-9PM, Nov. 15 &29, Dec.6 &13.
Eight hours of instruction and all materials provided.
Learn cane or reed seat weaving on your wooden chair treasure. Chair frames available for an extra cost, if necessitated.
Tuition: $100, Class limited: 8
Crocheting
Time: Tuesday, 7-9PM, Nov. 15, 29 & Dec. 6.
Three 2 hour classes. Bring: 1 skein of worsted weight yarn and Size “G” crochet hook.
Tuition: $45
Pottery
Weeknight evenings from 6:30PM - 9:30 PM and Saturdays from 3:00PM - 6:00 PM. The cost for seven sessions is $245.00 and includes all materials used in class, such as clay, glazes, stains, etc. and firing costs. For first time students, we include a set of pottery tools as well. The seven sessions can be taken any time within a four month period. For more information on specifically pottery Classes, contact Tim and Aluca Lindstrom (Owls Well Pottery) at 845-781-3736 or 845-248-1601
*All workshop reservations and payment hours, except pottery, should be 10-3 @ Tel. 845-782-8248, Ext. 21, or leave message; we’ll get back to you. Email: education@museumvillage.org
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Intensive Beginner's Blacksmithing Course
Blacksmithing Workshop4 Consecutive Days of Intensive Blacksmithing/
24 Hours of Instruction
Date: To Be Announced
Tuition: $360
Materials Fee: $25
Class Limit: 6
Where: Museum Village, “The Other Smithy”
Instructor: Adriaan Gerber
If interested, contact Robert Schmick, Museum Director, Museum Village, email: rschmick@museumvillage.org or 845-781-3729
Mr. Gerber is a largely self-taught, full time blacksmith. He refers to himself as a “bladesmith”, as much of his creative output results in high quality knives, axes, and swords that he sells world-wide. These objects are entirely created by hand and without power tools, although most recently Mr. Gerber has employed the use of an antique trip hammer for the purpose of preparing the metal billets he uses in his work. Mr. Gerber’s home smithy is located in Lamoine, Maine.
Day 1 / 3-9PM, 6 Hours
Introduction to Safety, Materials and tools of the trade. Tapering to a square point. Drawing Out Metal. Forging square taper to octagonal and round. Bending over the horn. Twisting. Make a drift tool for punching holes. Temper. Using the Cross Pein Hammer to forge a basic s-hook. Decorative Bending. Setting down using half-faced blows.
Day 2/ 10-5PM, 6 Hours
Forge a Set of Skewers with fancy handles using knowledge from prior class. More hot-cutting and splitting. Separating split parts for better access. Smoothing out cuts using the vise. Tapering to a square point. Drawing out metal. Forging square taper to octagonal and round. Flattening and twisting. Forging out a meat fork. Upsetting. Reducing metal width to form a neck. Preventing folds. Flattening. Drawing Down, bending and filing using the vise.
Day 3/ 10-5PM, 6 Hours
Using knowledge from Tueday’s class forge out a spatula (to be used for forge welding). Work on prior projects, if necessitated. Preparing for Welding. Upsetting and Scarfing. Fire Control For Welding. Using Flux. Forge Welding. Forging a spoon.
Day 4/ 3-9PM, 6 Hours
Preparing for Welding. Upsetting and Scarfing. Fire Control For Welding. Using Flux. Forge Welding a Ring. Punching a Square Slot. Punching Mounting Holes. Forging a Door Knocker.
Forge Studio. Drawing down. Folding and welding. Preparing steel blade insert. Welding high-carbon Steel. Cutting and Spreading. Heat treating high-carbon steel. Forging a Tomahawk.
Weekend Workshop: Making a Tomahawk and Hunting Knife Blade
Saturday, 10-3PM & Sunday, 10-3PM
Date: To Be Announced
Tuition: $175
Class Limit: 6
If interested, contact Robert Schmick, Museum Director, Museum Village, email: rschmick@museumvillage.org or 845-781-3729
For the intermediate level blacksmithing student only, or those who completed Museum Village’s beginning blacksmithing class. Draw down mild steel shape of tomahawk and hunting blade. Prepare steel blade edge inserts for both projects. Forge welding. Heat treating high-carbon steel.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Treadmills and Treadwheels
Museum Village founder Roscoe Smith had some early memories of his own family’s dependence on a dog treadmill inspiring him to collect several examples of these metal and wood apparatuses as well as tread wheels that with horse, oxen, or mule astride their wooden disc could power any number of machines through a series of gear differentiations. The large, approximately twenty feet in diameter, tread wheel housed in an open shed at the museum was used to grind grain. The wooden cleats on its surface are well worn from the shod hooves of animals.
Another smaller version, approximately eight feet in diameter, could have been used for any number of tasks including shredding fodder, shelling corn, or threshing oats and wheat on a smaller scale than that depicted in the photos included here. It has suffered deterioration, and it will be restored in the near future as an exhibition particularly showcasing these machines is developed.
Smith recalled in his autobiographical essay “A Brief Story of My Life---A Country Boy” that “the little dog treadmill that stood under a little shed immediately adjacent to the kitchen. This was used to churn milk and make butter and the dog was the power that operated the treadmill. He knew which day of the week the churning was to be done and he tried to be absent or hiding away out of sight that day so he wouldn’t have that work to do.”
The two existing treadmills in the collection have suffered some deterioration as well over the years, and it is our plan to restore them to operational condition. The worst of the two recently travelled to the State of Maine where it is on loan to The Curran Homestead Living History Farm and Museum. A victim to dry rot, the fabric belt that holds the wooden cleats of its tread will be repaired and exhibited in the next six months before returning to Museum Village.
Another smaller version, approximately eight feet in diameter, could have been used for any number of tasks including shredding fodder, shelling corn, or threshing oats and wheat on a smaller scale than that depicted in the photos included here. It has suffered deterioration, and it will be restored in the near future as an exhibition particularly showcasing these machines is developed.
Smith recalled in his autobiographical essay “A Brief Story of My Life---A Country Boy” that “the little dog treadmill that stood under a little shed immediately adjacent to the kitchen. This was used to churn milk and make butter and the dog was the power that operated the treadmill. He knew which day of the week the churning was to be done and he tried to be absent or hiding away out of sight that day so he wouldn’t have that work to do.”
The two existing treadmills in the collection have suffered some deterioration as well over the years, and it is our plan to restore them to operational condition. The worst of the two recently travelled to the State of Maine where it is on loan to The Curran Homestead Living History Farm and Museum. A victim to dry rot, the fabric belt that holds the wooden cleats of its tread will be repaired and exhibited in the next six months before returning to Museum Village.
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