Craft Shows on TV

Next week the BBC is to broadcast a short series of programmes on traditional crafts, under the general title 'Handmade'. They promise to be good, with sympathetic camerawork, editing, and minimal voiceover. On BBC 4.

4th May 9-00 pm Glass
4th May 9-30 pm Metal
repeated 5th May at 01-00

6th May 8-00 pm Wood
repeated 7th May at 01-00

Metal will be making a damascus steel knife; wood will be making a chair

I'm looking forward to them, but I'm also a bit disappointed that they haven't also done one on leather

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Odd items to put on a craft show, I doubt if folk could make those things at home, you'd have to find a class doing those things because of the equipment needed and good luck finding one of those! Leather work would be more suitable. I liked Kirstie Alsop's programmes you could always find something simple to copy.

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I'm not so sure my father when he was ill made a chair (rattan seated) I still have it here. Took a while as he was in pain and could only work when he felt well enough but he finished it a few weeks before he died.

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My hubby's a dab hand at making things with wood, he made his Mum and Dad an all in one love seat with table, and me some lovely flower planters and a fold out bench and table. He's sold a lot of Bird boxes at the Car Boot we go to. Also he's re-fitting the Van out with wood and going to do some welding underneath as it's an old model
I like watching Le Salvager the man who moved to France from England he makes things from scrap and would cost a fortune!

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I will be looking forward to those programs Zuludog, thank you for letting us know and posting the times.

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My Mum did a lot of crafts shows before her hands got too arthritic and her eyes let her down. She always had an inventive mind and was very good with her hands - Dad was too. Dad once made the first model of "Supercar" in Perspex (do you remember Lady Penelope?) many, many years ago. I remember we got tickets to go and see it as an Ice Show afterwards.
Mum used to make lots of things, but probably her favourite was replicating the Faberge Eggs. She used many different eggs eg. Goose eggs, Rheas eggs, Ostrich eggs, Chickens, and even occasionaly her Tortoise eggs.
Dad used to blow and cut the eggs for her and she would decorate them. She used to hinge them and they would open little doors, or sometimes the eggs would open in two halves, then she used to decorate the inside of the shells as well as the outside, and put all sorts of things inside the shell as well. Dad made her a big Perspex show case to display them in. She did this for many years and sold lots at Craft Fairs.

My brother is also a gifted Goldsmith and restorer of antiquities.
And me? I must be the black sheep. All I've ever been any good at is learning/keeping/breeding/and caring for different animals! I have a great compassion for them.
Oh, and Nature. I have often been told I have green fingers too.

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Lady Penelope Creighton Ward, ooooh will that be all, thank you very much madam.
Wasn’t she the woman who was in ‘Thunderbirds’ and her driver was called Parker? my two grandkids had thunderbird uniforms and were great fans.
What a gifted family you belong to Mups, I think there is nothing more satisfying then making things by hand yourself and once you get the hang of it it’s a doddle and not work at all, it’s a kind of love hate thing, when things go wrong you hate it but stick with it until you get it right then you are delighted with yourself, I can honestly say I never considered what I do as work and that’s probably why I stayed at it for so long.

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Thankyou Jem.
I like to think we were all given a gift of some sort, just some people never discover it.
As you say, doing something you love is a joy, and time flies.

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I do like to see these kinds of programmes, always enjoy seeing gifted people who use their creative skills, ive been trying to recall a bloke who had a series on TV about DIY quite a few years back, very entertaining for all the wrong reasons he was a car crash waiting to happen.

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Well we've just watched those craftsmen making things, i've had to come back on site now as i'm nodding off, nobody speaks on the programme, they just make things and it drags on a bit. The finished articles are very impressive but it takes them so long to make... zzzzz