Berea hardwoods crafter program

We invite you to come to Berea, to tour the campus and the craft workshops, dine in the Boone Tavern Hotel and meet the people who make Berea College so special. Your orders from this catalogue support the effort, contribute to the educational process, and help keep alive an almost hundred year old Berea handcraft tradition.

Each cutting board, broom, woven blanket, or hand forged iron hook brings with it a special character, function, and beauty unique to Berea College. Share with us this tradition of excellence.

It has 32 pages and offers wonderful gift items for the upcoming holiday season, as well as many items you will want to order for your own pleasure. The catalog contains items as small as handmade hardwood stirring spoons to major pieces of furniture such as dinning room and bedroom sets in walnut and cherry. If any of you have tried to find solid wood furniture these days, you know what a treasure it is. There is also a variety of puzzles and games to choose from as well as stuffed toys, brooms, wrought iron items, woven items, baskets and foot stools.

It would appear that Berea Hardwoods and Arizona Silhouette have better prices on the kit. Here are some instructions from the Arizona Sihouette website. The two bushings are identical sizes, and you only have to turn a short piece for the lower barrel, as the upper barrel is entirely the lever-action mechanism.

This pen comes with an antique brass plating and you can purchase an antique nickel plating. If you are interested in buying a pen from me, please use the contact link above, and I will email you within 24 to 48 hours. The classes will be taught by expert instructors from all over the country. Learn more about the classes currently offered. The new woodworking school will continue the tradition of fine woodworking for which both the College and Kelly Mehler are well known.

Students are engaged in a learning environment that encourages them to be active learners, workers, and servers. Now, younger generations have a dwindling interest in the art of making, and a part of the culture - a culture that once tied these mountains together - is slowly fading away. Berea College stepped in with a plan to decrease such cultural detachment. Frost saw a potential for preserving a craft tradition and developing a new market for Appalachian crafts Glotzbach.

He created a weaving program at Berea College, where women could earn their education through their craft. Today, the program has expanded to host over students In 5 different areas of craft.

But there was still this fading of the culture outside of the College and towns similar to Berea. Tim Glotzbach, the since retired director of the Berea College Crafts Program, decided that there needed to be a program specifically made for the purpose of educating people in the Appalachian region about their heritage.