Events at: Mennonite Heritage Center

CANCELLED – Fraktur Drawing Workshop

To keep everyone safe during the Coronavirus Pandemic this workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Registered participants will be notified of the new date.

This is a two-part workshop:
Session I: Friday, April 17 from 6 to 7:30 pm
Session II: Saturday, April 18 from 9:30 am to 1 pm

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

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CANCELLED – Fraktur Drawing Workshop

To keep everyone safe during the Coronavirus Pandemic this workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Registered participants will be notified of the new date.

This is a two-part workshop:
Session I: Friday, April 17 from 6 to 7:30 pm
Session II: Saturday, April 18 from 9:30 am to 1 pm

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

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CANCELLED Paper Cutting Workshop

To keep everyone safe during the Coronavirus Pandemic this workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Registered participants will be notified of the new date.

Popular paper cutting artist Pam Hults will teach the workshop. Participants can choose from several patterns that include both seasonal and traditional paper cutting designs.

Students will take home a finished piece along with a finished grain painted frame provided by the instructor. Workshop fee is $65 ($60 for members) plus a materials fee of $40

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CANCELLED – Workshop: Grain Paint a Document Chest and Frame

To keep everyone safe during the Coronavirus Pandemic this workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Registered participants will be notified of the new date.

In the 18th century, country cabinetmakers grain painted utilitarian objects to imitate the grain of wood. Softwoods were false grained to mimic expensive hardwoods often not available and the technique soon evolved into a folk art form. Homemade paints and tools were used to create finishes as varied as the minds and hands of imaginative

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Workshop: Traditional Woodworking for the Kitchen

This workshop, led by woodworker John W. Munro, will be an opportunity for novice and intermediate woodworkers to focus on and learn the use of traditional hand tool use in making traditional wooden spoons, ladles, spatulas, cutting boards and bowls. The use of curved gouges, mallets and mauls, spokeshaves, drawknives, scorps, shaving horses, froes, planes. and scraping blades will be demonstrated by the instructor and used by the attendees. Tool safety, tool handling, wood selection, and woodenware design will be

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Twill Weave Basket Workshop

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

Enjoy learning to weave a classic Shaker Cathead Basket in a twill weave pattern. The workshop is taught by master basket weaver Karen Wychock.

Easily identified by its pattern of diagonal lines, a twill weave is used to create a diagonal line in your basket. A twill weave is created by weaving over and under multiple spokes as opposed to weaving “over one-under one.”

Students will be weaving a 10” or 12″ classic Shaker Cathead Basket with a twill

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Paper Marbling Workshop

Learn the colorful art of paper marbling. Led by Ramon Townsend of Colonial Bindery, Exton, Pa, participants will learn this traditional paper art first developed by the Persians in the 15th century. Marbling is the art of floating and designing watercolors on a base fluid then permanently transferring the design to paper. Participants will be instructed in preparing the paper to accept the paint; mixing the colors for marbling; creating the base fluid; floating the colors on the base, then

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Used Book Sale

Thousands of good condition used books of general interest — fiction and nonfiction, secular and religious, travel, history, children’s, etc. — are for sale July 16-23 at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Rd., Harleysville, PA. The sale is held inside the air-conditioned museum building. Come take a break from the heat and pore over our wide selection of books organized by topic; also CD’s, DVD’s and puzzles.

Great books at low prices! $2 hardbacks; $1 paperbacks

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Used Book Sale

Thousands of good condition used books of general interest — fiction and nonfiction, secular and religious, travel, history, children’s, etc. — are for sale July 16-23 at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Rd., Harleysville, PA. The sale is held inside the air-conditioned museum building. Come take a break from the heat and pore over our wide selection of books organized by topic; also CD’s, DVD’s and puzzles.

Great books at low prices! $2 hardbacks; $1 paperbacks

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Used Book Sale

Thousands of good condition used books of general interest — fiction and nonfiction, secular and religious, travel, history, children’s, etc. — are for sale July 16-23 at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Rd., Harleysville, PA. The sale is held inside the air-conditioned museum building. Come take a break from the heat and pore over our wide selection of books organized by topic; also CD’s, DVD’s and puzzles.

Great books at low prices! $2 hardbacks; $1 paperbacks

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