Amelia Jane Gilding
Amelia Jane Gilding
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In this 1 ½ hour workshop you will:
In this 1 ½ hour workshop you will:
- be given your own toolset to use on the day which contains all the materials and tools required for this workshop.
- learn the art of contemporary gilding, how it has changed over time and how you can use it in your own home to give items the Midas touch!
- learn how to add your own unique flair to Christmas ornaments of your choice.
Refreshments provided.
Refreshments provided.
Participants must be aged 16 and over.
Participants must be aged 16 and over.
Festive Christmas Gilding at the Peak Village Rowsley
Festive Christmas Gilding at the Peak Village Rowsley
Saturday 20th December
Saturday 20th December
10am-11.30am
10am-11.30am
The perfect workshop to ring in the Christmas Spirit.
The perfect workshop to ring in the Christmas Spirit.
Christmas starts here with this wonderfully engaging workshop. Step into the spirit of the season with a chance to gild your own Christmas tea light and hanging ornament – or take a nostalgic journey back to the 19th century. In true Victorian fashion, real walnuts were once gilded and transformed into delicate decorations for fireplaces and Christmas trees. These charming ornaments often held secret messages, tucked inside to be opened on New Year’s Day. While ours may not conceal surprises, they beautifully echo that enchanting era when A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens set the scene for a truly magical festive celebration.
Christmas starts here with this wonderfully engaging workshop. Step into the spirit of the season with a chance to gild your own Christmas tea light and hanging ornament – or take a nostalgic journey back to the 19th century. In true Victorian fashion, real walnuts were once gilded and transformed into delicate decorations for fireplaces and Christmas trees. These charming ornaments often held secret messages, tucked inside to be opened on New Year’s Day. While ours may not conceal surprises, they beautifully echo that enchanting era when A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens set the scene for a truly magical festive celebration.
Amelia will guide you through the art of laying gold leaf onto any surface and help you to create wonderful items that will make fabulous mementoes of the day, and unique Christmas gifts for friends and family.
Amelia will guide you through the art of laying gold leaf onto any surface and help you to create wonderful items that will make fabulous mementoes of the day, and unique Christmas gifts for friends and family.
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12pm - 3pm
Why not try out the drop-in festive gilding session where participants can add a gilded sparkle to their own hanging Christmas decorations with Dutch gold leaf. Step-by-step instructions on the gilding technique will be provided and all necessary tools and materials supplied for you to create a glittering unique Christmas keepsake.
Why not try out the drop-in festive gilding session where participants can add a gilded sparkle to their own hanging Christmas decorations with Dutch gold leaf. Step-by-step instructions on the gilding technique will be provided and all necessary tools and materials supplied for you to create a glittering unique Christmas keepsake.
Just £5 for tuition, materials and your Christmas decoration to take home with you!
Just £5 for tuition, materials and your Christmas decoration to take home with you!
Beginners Kintsugi at Rheged Penrith Cumbria
Beginners Kintsugi at Rheged Penrith Cumbria
Saturday 17th January 10.30am - 1pm
Saturday 17th January 10.30am - 1pm
Rheged is a gallery, café, cinema, shopping venue, workplace and creative space on the edge of the Northern Lakes. A place where friends, family and colleagues can share a meal, watch a film, hold a meeting, see an exhibition, buy a gift or catch up over coffee.
A flexible space for getting together or enjoying time alone with a book or notepad; a place where stories are told, ideas are sparked and the Cumbrian landscape is a constant source of inspiration.
This is a beginners workshop
Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith,
Cumbria, CA11 0DQ
The Mill
The Mill
Join me at my new exciting venue in Farsley West Yorkshire. Sunny Bank Mills is an inspirational commercial and cultural destination in the heart of the local community of Farsley, Leeds. Founded in 1829, these glorious Mills are being regenerated by the sixth generation of the family owners, creating a wonderful blend of work, leisure and culture.
Join me at my new exciting venue in Farsley West Yorkshire. Sunny Bank Mills is an inspirational commercial and cultural destination in the heart of the local community of Farsley, Leeds. Founded in 1829, these glorious Mills are being regenerated by the sixth generation of the family owners, creating a wonderful blend of work, leisure and culture.
Sunny Bank Mills Gallery
Sunny Bank Mills Gallery
83-85 Town Street
83-85 Town Street
Farsley LS28 5UJ
Farsley LS28 5UJ
Crafting Zone
Crafting Zone
Create fabulous and beautifully flawed pottery whilst learning the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection.
Create fabulous and beautifully flawed pottery whilst learning the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection.
In this workshop for beginners you’ll learn how to safely break pottery and to repair it with gold, thereby embracing the cracks to make unique pieces of art. You will be given your own toolbox which will contain all the items you need for this workshop. Your Kintsugi pieces will make beautiful mementoes of the day which can be used as ornaments or as gifts.
In this workshop for beginners you’ll learn how to safely break pottery and to repair it with gold, thereby embracing the cracks to make unique pieces of art. You will be given your own toolbox which will contain all the items you need for this workshop. Your Kintsugi pieces will make beautiful mementoes of the day which can be used as ornaments or as gifts.
Heritage Oil and Water Gilding Course
Heritage Oil and Water Gilding Course
amelia jane gilding
amelia jane gilding
Higham Hall
Higham Hall
Monday March 9th to Thursday March 12th 2026
Monday March 9th to Thursday March 12th 2026
This is a practical course aimed at beginners, although more experienced students are welcome. Over four days, you will master the art of traditional oil and water gilding. Using skilled processes, you will prepare a picture frame, picture rail, and decorative ornaments for gilding with 23.75ct gold leaf. Additionally, you will gild a letter of the alphabet, students will need to inform us of their chosen letter when booking.
When you have completed this course, you will have the skills to make and prepare gesso and bole using traditional recipes, and how to lay both smoothly. You will become proficient in preparing, gilding, and burnishing gold leaf on bare wood surfaces and learn the artistic skill of antiquing them.
Mould making and composition casting used in traditional antique frame conservation is an endangered heritage craft. On this course you will have the opportunity to learn the practicalities of this vanishing art.
Included in the course is a field trip where you will gain first-hand knowledge of historical gilded frames.
The course will run for four days from 9th - 12th March 2026
For further information regarding these courses click this link.
Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake
Cockermouth
Cockermouth
Cumbria
Cumbria
CA13 9SH
CA13 9SH
CONTACT
CONTACT
Office Hours 09:00 to 17:00
017687 76276
admin@highamhall.com
Office Hours 09:00 to 17:00
017687 76276
admin@highamhall.com
Scan to download Higham Hall's Brochure of Study Breaks
Scan to download Higham Hall's Brochure of Study Breaks
Kintsugi
Kintsugi
Craft Workshop for Beginners
Craft Workshop for Beginners
Kintsugi celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection. You’ll learn how to safely break pottery and to repair it with gold craft materials, thereby embracing the cracks to make unique pieces of art.
Kintsugi celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection. You’ll learn how to safely break pottery and to repair it with gold craft materials, thereby embracing the cracks to make unique pieces of art.
You will be given your own toolbox which will contain all the items you need for this workshop. Your Kintsugi pieces will make beautiful mementoes of the day which can be used as ornaments or as gifts.
You will be given your own toolbox which will contain all the items you need for this workshop. Your Kintsugi pieces will make beautiful mementoes of the day which can be used as ornaments or as gifts.
This workshop will take place on our Terrace (to the right of The Garden Cafe) in our Marquee. Please wear suitable clothing, although it is heated on cooler days. Your ticket price includes tea, coffee, and a home-baked sweet treat.
This workshop will take place on our Terrace (to the right of The Garden Cafe) in our Marquee. Please wear suitable clothing, although it is heated on cooler days. Your ticket price includes tea, coffee, and a home-baked sweet treat.
Your ticket price includes tea, coffee, and a home-baked sweet treat.
Your ticket price includes tea, coffee, and a home-baked sweet treat.
Pool Darkin Lane, Beetham, nr Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7AP
Pool Darkin Lane, Beetham, nr Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7AP
Thursday March 19th
Thursday March 19th
10.30am - 1pm
10.30am - 1pm
Middleport Pottery Contemporary Gilding Craft Workshop
Middleport Pottery Contemporary Gilding Craft Workshop
Dates TBC
Dates TBC
10.30am - 1pm
10.30am - 1pm
Middleport Pottery is a charity-owned heritage visitor attraction located in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent.
Middleport Pottery is a charity-owned heritage visitor attraction located in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent.
It is the UK’s last working Victorian potbank in continuous production, and after 130 years it remains the home of world-famous Burleigh Pottery.
It is the UK’s last working Victorian potbank in continuous production, and after 130 years it remains the home of world-famous Burleigh Pottery.
Middleport now offers a wide variety of Crafting Workshops and I am delighted to have been invited to host my Kintsugi Workshop for Beginners here in May.
Middleport now offers a wide variety of Crafting Workshops and I am delighted to have been invited to host my Kintsugi Workshop for Beginners here in May.
Please join me here for my Contemporary Gilding Workshop and learn the art of laying gold leaf onto any surface!
Please join me here for my Contemporary Gilding Workshop and learn the art of laying gold leaf onto any surface!
Contemporary Kintsugi Workshop
Contemporary Kintsugi Workshop
at the Cheshire Clay Studios
at the Cheshire Clay Studios
Middlewich
Middlewich
Watch out for future workshops
Watch out for future workshops
10am to 1pm
10am to 1pm
This workshop is ideal for those with experience in making ceramics but newcomers are welcome.
This workshop is ideal for those with experience in making ceramics but newcomers are welcome.
Restoration Kintsugi is an advanced form of the beginners' technique and draws upon a combination of contemporary conservation methods and the traditional expertise used in Kintsugi.
Restoration Kintsugi is an advanced form of the beginners' technique and draws upon a combination of contemporary conservation methods and the traditional expertise used in Kintsugi.
The finish is more refined, using 23.75 carat gold, and requires more skill and time to achieve.
The finish is more refined, using 23.75 carat gold, and requires more skill and time to achieve.
Not everything broken is lost—sometimes, it becomes even more beautiful. ✨
Not everything broken is lost—sometimes, it becomes even more beautiful. ✨
This one-of-a-kind workshop celebrates the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, where cracks are filled with gold, turning once-broken ceramics into stunning masterpieces.
This one-of-a-kind workshop celebrates the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, where cracks are filled with gold, turning once-broken ceramics into stunning masterpieces.
Led by Amelia Bedson, a skilled restorer with experience in cultural heritage conservation, this morning workshop will take you on a journey through history, craftsmanship, and the philosophy of wabi-sabi—embracing imperfections as part of an object’s unique story.
Led by Amelia Bedson, a skilled restorer with experience in cultural heritage conservation, this morning workshop will take you on a journey through history, craftsmanship, and the philosophy of wabi-sabi—embracing imperfections as part of an object’s unique story.
The workshop:
The workshop:
Amelia will supply you with a bowl that she will show you how to break (or you can bring along a piece of your own). Then she will teach you, step by step, how to repair the broken pieces to create a wonderful new masterpiece, using 24 carat gold leaf to gild the repair.
Amelia will supply you with a bowl that she will show you how to break (or you can bring along a piece of your own). Then she will teach you, step by step, how to repair the broken pieces to create a wonderful new masterpiece, using 24 carat gold leaf to gild the repair.
You will leave the workshop with the confidence to repair other pieces of broken ceramics to make them even more beautiful.
You will leave the workshop with the confidence to repair other pieces of broken ceramics to make them even more beautiful.
Places are limited so early booking is recommended.
Places are limited so early booking is recommended.
SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT
Christmas Festive Gilding Workshop
Christmas Festive Gilding Workshop
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Zantium Studios in the Peak District - Derbyshire
Zantium Studios in the Peak District - Derbyshire
Sunday November 15th 2026
Sunday November 15th 2026
2pm-5pm
2pm-5pm
Join Amelia at Zantium Studios with hosts Peter and Alison Massey at their beautiful Crafting Cottage in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Join Amelia at Zantium Studios with hosts Peter and Alison Massey at their beautiful Crafting Cottage in the Derbyshire Peak District.
In this Festive masterclass learn the art of laying Dutch Gold Leaf using bespoke size and lacquers. You will gild Christmas decorations including baubles which are perfect for the festive season and make fabulous gifts. Click here to book directly with the Studio.
In this Festive masterclass learn the art of laying Dutch Gold Leaf using bespoke size and lacquers. You will gild Christmas decorations including baubles which are perfect for the festive season and make fabulous gifts. Click here to book directly with the Studio.
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