Country crafts holidays, courses and vacations

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Manor House Hotel
based: Devon, UK
website: www.manorhousehotel.co.uk
Family hotel accommodation close to Okehampton, near the Dartmoor National Park in Devon. The hotel offers an impressive range of indoor and outdoor sports and leisure activities as well as a unique craft centre with a wide range of tutored crafts – many of these are offered free of charge to guests.
| pottery/ceramics | patchwork/quilting | glass crafts/stained glass | jewellery (jewelry) making | needlepoint/cross stitch | bowling/bowls | badminton | printmaking | country crafts | croquet | family / child friendly | England |

Motus in Sardinia
based: Sardinia, Italy
website: www.motusinsardinia.it
A Sardinia known by few, tours and sojourns designed around traveller's wishes. Travel ideas also suitable for off-site company events. Genuine cuisine, charming hotels, history, traditions, art and painting. High-quality trips in a marvellous landscape, in a land of a unique culture in the Mediterranean – Sardinia.
| sailing (large boat/sail ship) | cookery | gastronomic | wine appreciation/tasting | country crafts | painting/drawing | festivals/carnivals | historical tours | tailor made | ethical/ecotourism | Sardinia |

National Trust (The)
based: London, UK
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Working holidays in National Trust locations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These include historic buildings as well as countryside, coastal, woodland and farm locations. Many different types of holiday aimed at a wide variety of interests and age groups.
| working/volunteer holidays | archaeological digs | country crafts | botanical | youth/teen | weekends/short breaks | UK |

Warner Leisure Hotels
based: Hertfordshire, UK
website: Warner Be Inspired
Creative holidays at stunning locations in England and Wales. The wide range of breaks includes painting and drawing, calligraphy, creative writing, flower arranging, willow weaving, wood and stone carving, pottery and decorating ceramics, digital photography, card making – all with expert teachers. Breaks also include good food and live entertainment every night.
| painting/drawing | calligraphy | photographic | country crafts | sculpture/carving | glass crafts/stained glass | paper crafts | pottery/ceramics | wood crafts | flower arranging and floral design | writing | England | Wales |

Assington Mill Art and Craft Courses
based: Suffolk, UK
website: www.assingtonmill.com
A wide range of workshops and short courses in traditional county crafts, based in an old watermill and farm in rural Suffolk.
| country crafts | wood crafts | feng shui | pottery/ceramics| photographic | UK |

A Stone Upon A Stone
based: Victoria, Australia
website: www.astoneuponastone.com
Weekend dry stone walling workshops in Victoria, Australia.
| country crafts | Australia |

Beyond2000BC
based: Suffolk, UK
website: www.beyond2000bc.co.uk
Prehistoric workshops; day and weekend courses to learn how to make prehistoric tools such as arrowheads, axes and knives.
| country crafts | sculpture/carving | UK |

Donald Gunn
based: Northumberland, UK
website: drystone-walls.com
Holiday activity courses to learn the ancient art of dry stone walling; 1, 2 or 3 days.
| country crafts | UK |

Earthwalk Northwest
based: Washington, USA
website: www.earthwalknorthwest.com
Programs focusing on primitive living and earth awareness including such skills as bow, and arrow making, cheese making, wine making, fire by friction, herbal soap making, animal tracking, traditional tanning and wilderness survival techniques.
| country crafts | wine making | herbalism | survival courses | soap making | USA |

Ragmans Lane Farm
based: Gloucestershire, UK
website: www.ragmans.co.uk
Short holiday courses in cider-making and willow craft in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
| country crafts | cider tours/making | ethical / ecotourism | UK |

underwoodsman.co.uk
based: Kent, UK
website: www.underwoodsman.co.uk
Country workshop courses with Underwoodsman John Waller; including working green wood, basket and willow; hedge laying; coppicing; the making of hurdles, charcoal, trugs; other traditional country skills.
| country crafts | UK |

Yarner Trust (The)
based: Devon, UK
website: www.yarnertrust.co.uk
Offering a host of weekend courses in traditional country crafts, such as rush furniture, basketwork, willow structures, dry stone walling, garden mosaics, wattle & daub, straw bale building, lime rendering and herbal remedies.
| country crafts | mosaic | herbalism | UK |

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