Craft Fair Learning Zone
The Learning Zone is where you can find everything to help learn a new craft or improve your skills in a craft you already know. The Learning Zone is in 2 sections: Books, DVDs and Videos and Workshops, Courses and Classes
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Books, DVDs and Videos
| Art
Including water colour painting, oil painting, sketching, drawing and other art techniques |
Basketry & Caning | ||
| Beads & Beadwork | Braiding & Kumihimo | ||
| Calligraphy | Candlemaking | ||
| Card Making
Tips and techniques for making greetings cards |
Cookery | ||
| Crafts in General | Decorative Crafts | ||
| Decoupage and Paper Tole
3D decoupage, paper tole and related subjects |
Egg Decorating | ||
| Encaustic Art | Glasswork | ||
| Hat making | Hobby Ceramics | ||
| Jewellery | Knitting & Crochet | ||
| Lacemaking & Tatting | Needlework | ||
| Paper and Parchment Craft
Including gift wrapping and quilling |
Pottery | ||
| Quilting & Patchwork | Ribbon Decorating | ||
| Sewing | Silk Painting | ||
| Stamping | Sugar Craft | ||
| Textile Crafts | Toy & Model Making | ||
| Woodworking | |||
Workshops, Courses and Classes
| Animal Husbandry
Apiary, bee keeping, hen and poultry keeping, sheep and pig keeping, animals for small holdings |
Art
Drawing and painting courses including watercolour, acrylics and Chinese brush painting |
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| Basketry and Caning
Willow weaving, basketry, cane and rush seating |
Beads and Beadwork
Bead weaving, bead stringing and other bead related courses and workshops |
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| Book Binding and Restoration
Book binding and book restoration courses and workshops |
Braiding and Kumihimo
Ribbon braiding, hair braiding and kumihimo |
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| Business Skills
Business skills that are relevant to crafters and craft businesses, such as retail skills |
Calligraphy
Lettering, sign work, Chinese and other calligraphy classes |
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| Card Making
Card making classes and workshops |
China & Porcelain Decoration
Porcelain restoration, painting on ceramics and pottery painting workshops |
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| Country Crafts
Courses include dry stone walling, straw bale building, hedging, coppicing, wildlife and dowsing |
Craft Making in General
Crafts for Christmas, childrens craft workshops and other general craft courses |
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| Decorative Finishes
Gilding, stencilling, trompe l'oeil and paint finishes |
Decoupage and Paper Tole
Workshops and classes on decoupage, including 3D decoupage, and paper tole |
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| Egg Craft | Encaustic Art | ||
| Feltmaking | Flower Arranging | ||
| Food and Drink
Cookery and baking courses, wild food, cider, beer and wine making courses and workshops |
Framing | ||
| Furniture Making & Upholstery | Gardening
Gardening and garden maintenance courses |
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| Glass Painting, Blowing & Stained Glass | Hobby Ceramics
Hobby ceramics and pottery painting |
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| Interior Design
Interior design and decoration, including feng shui, DIY, plumbing |
Jewellery Making
Silver smithing, metal clay work, tiara making and enameling |
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| Knitting & Crochet | Lacemaking & Tatting | ||
| Leatherwork | Metal work | ||
| Millinery | Mosaics
Courses in making mosaics |
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| Natural Health and Beauty
Courses and workshops covering aromatherapy, yoga, pilates, tai chi, shiatsu and other treatments |
Needlework
Embroidery, Sewing, Tapestry work |
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| Paper and Parchment Craft
Courses covering making greetings cards, gift boxes, hand-made paper, gift wrapping and quilling |
Photography
Black & white, digital, landscape, portrait, developing & printing etc |
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| Pottery
Throwing, firing, raku, glazing, claywork |
Printing & Printmaking
Collography, linocutting, screen printing etc |
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| Pyrography | Quilting & Patchwork | ||
| Rugmaking | Scrapbooking | ||
| Sculpture | Sewing
All types of sewing courses, including dress making |
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| Soap making | Soft Furnishings
All aspects of soft furnishings - curtain making, cushions and more |
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| Spinning & Dyeing
Spinning, weaving, yarn and fibre dyeing, silk dyeing, indigo dyeing, shibori resist techniques |
Stamping | ||
| Stencilling | Stick Making | ||
| Stone Working
Stone carving, letter cutting and other stone sculpting workshops |
Sugar Craft | ||
| Textiles and Silk Painting
Workshops and classes on silk painting, fabric painting, batik, dyeing and other textile arts |
Toy and Model Making
Courses include soft toys such as teddy bears, wooden toys, dollshouses, and models |
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| Weaving | Woodworking & Woodturning | ||