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Green Woodworking with Oxford Brookes University 5th November 2024
Pole lathe turning with Yoav Kafets 8th August 2024
Ash splint basket with Chelle Mateo 27th May 2024

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londongreenwood

Members-run co-operative workshop. We run courses in green wood working and have handmade items for sale. 🪵🌳

And we’re back! This weekend we had our first co

And we’re back! This weekend we had our first courses of the year running at both our workshops @abneyparkn16 and @hackneycityfarm_official - it was cold but we soon warmed up carving spatulas from beautiful cherry wood. Our @dave_budd_handmade_tools drawknives made it an absolute pleasure. Just look at those curly shavings made by people who’ve never touched a drawknife before. 😍🪵
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#drawknife #blacksmithmade #handmadetools #drawknives #spatulamaking #londongreenwood #greenwoodworking #greenwoodwork #shavehorse #artisan #artisantools #artisanspatulas #abneyparkcemetery

2024 has been a busy productive and challenging ye

2024 has been a busy productive and challenging year.

We have taught over 700 people and it has been great to see the positivity and creativity they brought.

Our membership continues to grow, we now have 85 members of our green wood working community.

Sadly this year brought the sudden death of one of our most stalwart members Nick Evans. Who was remembered by members at our AGM.

We got the keys to our second workshop, which focused the energy of our cooperative on getting it up and running. It hasn’t been plain sailing but we hope that the Abney Park Cemetery site will thrive in ‘25.

We had some wonderful guest tutors this year including @woodwoolwillow @soulwood_creations @carvingandturning @chelle.mateo @yoav.kafets We hope to develop this for next year as we gained so much knowledge from it as a community.

We wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. From all at LGWx

#londongreenwood #greenwoodworking #whittling #spooncarving #sloyd #polelatheturning #bowlturning #greenwoodwork #londoncraft #postandrungchair #postandrungstool #abneyparkcemetery #hackneycityfarm

🎄The last workshop day of the year brought our

🎄The last workshop day of the year brought our lovely community together for whittling, demonstrations and celebrations. It was great to bring the year to an end with a 🔥
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#whittling #londongreenwood #spooncarvers #carvespoons #spooncarving #hackney #hackneycityfarm #community #cooperative #xmas

Two beautiful bowls by Mike. Inspired by a recent

Two beautiful bowls by Mike. Inspired by a recent visit to @japanhouseldn where there was a fascinating exhibit of Ainu culture from Hokkaido.

Some members’ work on display at our #AbneyParkC

Some members’ work on display at our #AbneyParkCemetery workshop. If you’re in the cemetery come and find us at the High Street entrance. Beautiful handmade items for sale (xmas is looming).
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#londongreenwood #handmadegifts #handmade #handmadespoons #handcarvedspoon #whittling #whittlers #whittlersofinstagram

Fancy a deep dive into green wood working? Meet ni

Fancy a deep dive into green wood working? Meet nice people, learn new skills and have wholesome fun on our Introduction to Green Wood course. Links in bio.
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#greenwoodworking #londongreenwood #whittling #sloyd #slojd #sløyd #slöjd #morakniv #newwoodculture #greenwood #carvingspoons #spooncarving #curlyshavings

This week we hosted some architecture students fro

This week we hosted some architecture students from @oxfordbrookes for a two day green wood intro. They did some turning, making legs for a future furniture project, and some ‘spoon’ carving making spoony components for a construction which will be put together back at their studio. They were super quick learners and got to grips with green wood quickly. Hopefully it may influence some of their thinking in the future. And we had fun!
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#greenwoodworking #architecturestudent #architecturestudents #ribapart2 #ribadiploma #oxfordbrookesuniversity #oxfordbrookesarchitecture #whittling #understandingmaterials #londongreenwood

Plate turning with @carvingandturning happened ove

Plate turning with @carvingandturning happened over the weekend. What a great day! Thanks so much Ali! 🪵🍂☀️
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#plateturning #plateturners #greenwoodworking #greenwoodwork #makesomethingbeautiful #londongreenwood #polelathe #polelatheturning

When you find a big wedge of sycamore. @mathieu_ma

When you find a big wedge of sycamore. @mathieu_makes and Mike making a plan.
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#sycamore #makingaplan #greenwoodworking #greenwood #greenwoodwork #londongreenwood #thinkthensplit

Autumnal axing 🍂 . . . #axing #greenwoodworkin

Autumnal axing 🍂
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#axing #greenwoodworking #sloyd #slojd #londongreenwood #greenwoodaxe #makeamallet

Day one of our introduction to green wood working

Day one of our introduction to green wood working course you make your own mallet and a spatula. 💅
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Every day of this four day course you create a new project. At the end of the course you’ll know how to use a range of tools safely and you’ll have a mallet, a set of chopsticks, a butter spreader, a turned object like a rolling pin or porridge spurtle and a cooking spoon! We also give you your own carving knife so you can go off and whittle at home.
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#londongreenwood #sloyd #slojd #slöjd #greenwoodworking #greenwoodwork #greenwoodworkingcourses #craftcourseslondon #londoncraftcourses #hackney #hackneycrafts #hackneycrafters #whittling #whittlingwood #mora #woodtoolsaxe #axing

Love this pic of co-op member @ed.castell turning

Love this pic of co-op member @ed.castell turning a lovely bit of fresh cherry on one of our foot-powered pole lathes. The joy of making!
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#thejoyofmaking #polelathe #polelatheturning #bowlturning #bowlturner #cherrybowl #newwoodculture #greenwoodworking #greenwood #londongreenwood #happyturner #bowlturninglondon #humanpowered #humanpoweredlathe

Turn a log into a handmade bowl on our bowl carvin

Turn a log into a handmade bowl on our bowl carving course. There a is something very satisfying about making a useful and beautiful object from a piece of wood. Using a range of hand tools including adzes, gouges, axes and drawknives participants spend an energetic day making their own unique bowl.
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#bowlcarving #abneyparkcemetery #abneypark #abneycemetery #stokenewington #greenwoodcarving #greenwoodworking #londongreenwood #londonmakers #greenwoodbowl #carvingcourses #carvinglessons #carvingclass #londoncraftclasses

New album cover for our Bowl Carving course. Bowl

New album cover for our Bowl Carving course. Bowl carving is the new rock & roll.
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#abneyparkcemetery #abneypark #bowlcarving #adze #bowlcarvingclass #greenwoodworking #londongreenwood #londongreenwoodwork #makesomethingbeautiful #makeabowl #londonmakers #learntocarvewood #greenwoodworkcourses

What an amazing day of instruction from @woodwoolw

What an amazing day of instruction from @woodwoolwillow last Friday. Our members enjoyed a wonderful basket weaving course. Each made their own tool basket to keep their spoon carving tools in. The results were fantastic!
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#basketweaving #basketweavingworkshop #willowweaving #willowweavingclass #londongreenwood #greenwoodworker #hackney #hackneycityfarm #craftersgonnacraft

Another magical set of Family Whittling sessions l

Another magical set of Family Whittling sessions last week 🪵✨ our young makers made a bundle of personally designed tools to take home 🌿
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We learnt straight cuts, we learnt thumb push cuts, we learnt stop cuts and we learnt to do it all safely, as the young people’s grown ups learnt how to ensure they can both be making confidently🙏💪
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People keep asking how they can join us! And it’s as simple as booking in the link in our bio! We have sessions for 6-8’s, and 9+’s - and each young person books with one adult so the family levels up their knife skills together 🏕️
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We have dates currently available for August 22nd, 24th, and 31st - and you can join our newsletter on our website to make sure you hear when any future dates are released 🙏🌾
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#familywhittling #youngpeople #activitiesforkids #summeractivities #summeractivitiesforkids #londonactivities #activitiesforkidslondon #londoncraft #kidscrafts #kidscrafting #kidscraftideas

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