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12 The Woodworker & Good Woodworking September 2019 http://www.getwoodworking.comTHE CAPITAL OF CRAFT
RETURNS TO CARDIFFCABINET SPLIT ON BREXIT
The organisers of Wales’ largest contemporary
craft event, Craft Festival Cardiff (formally
known as Made By Hand Cardiff), have
announced details of this year’s event, which
will take place from 1–3 November, where it
will be returning to the historic and prestigious
City Hall, Cardiff for the sixth year running.
Craft Festival Cardiff is part of a portfolio of
events organised by the multi-award winning
team at Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey and CraftIt’s a political debate that
has been both electrifying
and utterly tedious. Should
the UK leave the EU with a
deal, without a deal, or not
leave at all? Now, a student at
the Chippendale International
School of Furniture in East
Lothian has turned the debateYANDLES AUTUMN
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wherever we host our events. We hope our visitors in Cardiff will
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This three-day festival will give you time to meet and buy from over
130 of the finest, award-winning makers from all over Wales and the UK.
Meet jewellers, textile artists, potters, silversmiths, printmakers, sculptors,
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The event is for all ages and children and
families are warmly welcomed. To find out
more, see http://www.craftfestival.co.uk.Stephen Barr’s ‘Strong and Stable
Brexit Cabinet’This year, Yandles Autumn Woodworking Show will be held on 6 and 7
September. The event is now held once a year and is one of the country’s
longest running woodworking shows, taking place in the unique venue
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Kreg, Charnwood and Chestnut, and new for this year are brands such
as Laguna, Easy Wood Tools and Razertip.
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demonstrations, pyrography, routing, woodcarving and broom
making are just some of the crafts that will be on display, and for the
first time, Makers Corner will attract bloggers from around the world.
As always, the Yandles Show will have the largest selection of timber
on sale to be found at any similar event anywhere in Europe. In fact, this
year it is anticipated that Yandles will have in the region of £500,
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into a talking point piece of furniture. Stephen Barr, originally from
Northern Ireland but now living in Edinburgh, has crafted a two-door
‘Strong and Stable Brexit Cabinet’ in walnut and Japanese ash.
It depicts the Union Jack on one door, and the EU’s stars on the other.
There is also a deliberate gap between the outer walnut structure
of the cabinet and its ash inner, representing the gaps between opinion
on the vexed Brexit question. Stephen, who lives in Edinburgh as
mentioned previously, intends to set up in business as a fine furniture
designer in West Lothian after graduation next month.
Stephen’s ‘Strong and Stable Brexit Cabinet’ was shown, alongside
work from all the graduating students, at a public exhibition and
sale of Work at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh on Monday 10 June.
To find out more about the range of courses offered at the school,
see http://www.chippendaleschool.com.