11m—4pm. Free. All welcome.
Meet some of Sheffield’s finest wood designers and makers who work in Ecclesall Woods. See inside their workshops, watch demonstrations.
Try your hand at carving, and making jewellery from bark. Find out how working in nature inspires beautiful design and offers a satisfying living.
Part of Ruskin in Sheffield 2016: Make Good Livelihoods, initiated by the Guild of St George.
“Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them, and leisure to look at them; and unless you provide some elements of beauty for your workmen to be surrounded by, you will find that no elements of beauty can be invented by them.”
— John Ruskin