View our 18’ show yurt
This winter one of our yurts will be on display at the Ariel Centre Gallery KEVICC, Totnes and at Plymouth Museum. See the beautiful hand made frame, the traditional style felt covers made from Westcountry wool and see a huge selection of yurt trappings and furnishings from Central Asia.
Following on from this year’s successful yurt making course we are offering another course for 2009/10
You will have to attend at least 3 out of the 4 weekends, in order to finish your yurt.
Cost: £120 per/person/3 day course. (Discounts available for groups). £120 acts as deposit for whole course.
Cheques payable to T Fairlove; Venton House, Dartington, Devon, TQ9 6DP.
Course to include: Tuition in all processes needed to make a coppiced Turkoman yurt from the tree in the wood through to the finished article. Hand outs, H&S, tool sharpening, coppicing, back-ground material on yurt living, its history and traditions.
Location: Toby’s Orchard, Beaminster Dorset. Directions, Immediately on entering Beaminster from Bridport, take B 3163 (Dorchetser Rd) out of Beaminster, 0.3 mile up hill on RHS is entrance to field.
Site facilities include camping, small caravan as communal living area, working barns, covered working areas, cleaving brakes and all the steam bending equipment.
Coppiced wood can be provided a price list is available upon request.
Dates:
Fri November 6 - Sun November 8 2009
Fri February 26 - Sun February 28 2010
Fri March 26 - Sun March 28 2010
Fri April 23 - Sun April 26 2010
Tools required; Draw-knife, tape measure, note book, pencil (essential), pruning saw, spoke shave, sharp axe, sharpening stone, Work-Mate, cordless drill (useful), pliers, smoothing plane, set square, steel rule (optional).
Experience of green woodwork is useful but by no means essential.
Yurt course in Wrongs Covert, Norfolk; 4-6 Dec 2009, contact us for details.
Please book early as numbers are very limited on this course. Contact us for more details
