Recent content by PolymahArtisan

I volunteer for a charity (FSC) who own and use a LOT of tents (Forest School Camps, if anyone is interested). We have a good few large old tents (think MOD style stuff, really built to last, like this), and some similar newer stuff (significantly less built to last). We can repair our old...

Fair enough Toddy, I'll take the advice of someone who sounds like they know a lot more than me on the matter! I'm actually looking forward to learing form Will Lord at some point, but it's nice to have something to occupy my hands in the evenings of the dark half of the year. There's probably a...

First off, this is a more of a request for a favor from a likeminded crafter than a purchase/sale/trade but if it should have been put in the B/S/T I'm sorry for misplacing it. I really want to learn flint knapping. Which necessitates flint. I know I can practice with glass but finding glass...

and then: The first I can certainly agree with (not the raining bit). In fact, that was sort of how I came to be asking to learn more skills in the first place. I camp a lot with the Forest School Camps who taught me woodcraft when I was young. Then i discovered stuf like flintknapping and...

Wow. Thank you so much for all your sggestions everybody. Bit of an update from me. I looked at all the sugeestions and noew I really want to learn from Will Lord. The breadth of th skills he teacghes is quite astonishing and I really look forward to that. Apart fro that I have also found a...

There is a bit of a story to this. I've been into buscraft and survival all my life, and with hindsight I can see that over time I've been trying to become more and more self-sufficient, need less and less equipment and learn to do more and more from only the materials I find around me...

I realy like the look of the Native Awareness courses. The website and ethos look really good and seem to fit exactly what I want. EXCEPT. I tried the contact form, the email address and the phone mnumber from the site (wanting to enquire about consessions as I'm a student) and had no answer...

Really great write up, thanks for sharing. May I ask which tanith your name refers to to? Blue Skies, PA

I had to look it up too, but its a great word and I'm keeping it! Also, @Toddy thanks for the ideas, the Torrisdale tannery looks beautiful, I'l send some emails...

Thanks! that would really helpful. I'm happy to pay decent money for something unusual/1-to-1 etc. if he doesn't normally do that sort of thing.

It's all in the title really. Ideally in the summer, after May but before August would be ideal if anyone knows of somewhere. For some context: I've been getting into more and more oprimitive stuff recently (and spent a lot of time lurking on PaleoPlanet) and I have a design for some winter...