Event Category: Workshop

Paint a Document Box and Square Frame Workshop

Paint a document box and square frame

This class features folk painting in the Pa German style of hand printing and combing. Using water based glazes in traditional colors learn the many ways utilitarian everyday items were embellished in days past.

Participants will learn to grain paint a softwood 10 x 10 mirror and frame and a 4”x5”x8 document box. A dark glaze is applied over yellow paint. Then while the glaze is wet a spontaneous texture is created using the traditional

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Yoga at the Barn

Join us October 24th 3PM for outdoor yoga located at our Historic Barn. Bring your yoga mat, water bottle and a friend!
Jackie from Holistic Flows Yoga guides us through a peaceful and engaging yoga class.

Yoga at the barn   or drop in the day of for $10.00

Jackie Herman is a Registered Yoga Instructor, based out of Doylestown, PA. Her teaching style reflects a blend of her Classical Yoga education, as well as her background as a student of Power Vinyasa.

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Remembering Your Family Stories, and Writing about Them *Workshop*

   When have you last thought about:

  —your earliest memory from childhood?              
—that favorite room in the house where you were raised?
                         – your spiritual heritage; how you were influenced in forming your  beliefs  and philosophy of life?

Have you ever thought about putting such thoughts into writing?   

This will be an interactive class about family history, your own—how you remember them, why and how to write them, and share them. Richard Lichty, the class presenter, will

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Fraktur Drawing Workshop

Fraktur Drawing Workshop at the Mennonite Heritage Center

The Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, Harleysville, announces a Fraktur Drawing Working scheduled for Saturday, November 6.  Fraktur was created by Pennsylvania Germans during the eighteenth through the mid nineteenth centuries and features calligraphic text decorated with colorful birds, hearts and flowers.  The tradition has its roots in the illuminated manuscripts of medieval Europe but evolved into a distinctive part of the local Pennsylvania German culture. Today, those who appreciate this colorful

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Painting Frames Workshop

Learn to fancy paint in the age old styles of combing and graining with water based glazes. 5 frames will be completed after practice boards help guide design choices.

This class features folk painting in the Pa German style of hand printing and combing. Using water based glazes in traditional colors learn the many ways utilitarian everyday items were embellished in days past.

In the 18th century, country cabinetmakers grain painted utilitarian objects to imitate the grain of wood. Softwoods were false

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