Date 1 August 2027 (1 Day)

Price £120

Maximum number of places 8

Book Contact Liz Watson email hello@ellekerswood.co.uk or phone 07985 548481

Course Details

From log to mug. A one-day workshop in Ellekers Wood, with Jan Harm ter Brugge.

Take your spoon-carving skills a step further. Learn to carve a mug from straight-grained green hardwood with axe and knife, in five clear steps.

No templates. No vices. Working right in the woods, you’ll design as you carve—making deliberate choices about shape, proportion and how your mug feels in the hand.

For reasonably accomplished spoon carvers with experience of green wood, axe and knife.

Catering:

For all courses, a hearty, healthy lunch is provided (please let your tutor know of any dietary requirements when booking), along with tea, coffee and water. Breakfast and evening meal is self-catered, with firewood and charcoal-based cooking available.

We also provide firewood, brew-kit, washing up and cooking facilities, crockery and cutlery. 

Guests should bring; barbecue food or pans for cooking on a fire for breakfast and evening meals.

Facilities:

Facilities include covered workshop spaces, an undercover outdoor cooking set-up, comfortable compost toilet, plenty of loo roll, and handwashing.  A good stone track leads to the the wood where there is space to park, please keep speed under 10mph.

Tutor Bio

Jan Harm ter Brugge @spooncarver

With a background in product design, Jan Harm is a spooncarver, designer and teacher from the Netherlands.

Internationally renowned, Jan Harm teaches throughout Europe and is especially well known for his small sidebranch ‘shcoops’ and systematic way of handcarving mugs, which, he feels, should be a comfortable and natural extension of the hand.