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Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades acknowledges the Wadawurrung people as the Traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and to all of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live and work on Wadawurrung Country. We acknowledge their unceded sovereignty over Wadawurrung Country, and the ongoing hardship and trauma as a result of colonisation. The history and continuous culture of the Wadawurrung people is an important part of our shared story.

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Matt Mewburn from Eveleigh Works is travelling all the way from New South Wales for the Lost Trades Fair and joining us for a special weekend of blacksmithing workshops at the Rare Trades Centre. Join blacksmith and founder of Eveleigh Works, Matt Mewburn, and learn to make a beautiful serving spoon from copper and steel that will last for generations. In this full-day workshop, you’ll try your hand at blacksmithing techniques including heating, tapering, texturing and twisting to forge a piece of steel into an ergonomic handle for your spoon. You’ll also try cold forming techniques using a variety of blacksmithing tools such as anvils, hammers, and swages to shape copper sheet into the bowl of your spoon before uniting the pieces with copper rivets. At the end of the day, you will take home a beautiful utensil to use in your kitchen.

Snacks, lunch, water bottle, notepad and pen.

Workshop appropriate - non-flammable clothing, closed toe shoes, no hanging jewellery, hair tied back, no baggy sleeves

Small class size – max 6 participants

All instruction, tools and materials included

At the end of this workshop, you will have learned the basics of working with copper and other non-ferrous alloys. You will have learned about the forging of steel including heating, hammer technique, striking with sledgehammers and using various blacksmithing tools.

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The Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades - 383 – 389 Bradshaw Street, Ballarat VIC 3350

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Forged and Formed: Copper Serving Utensil

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Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades | Forged and Formed: Copper…

Matt Mewburn from Eveleigh Works is travelling all the way from New South Wales for the Lost Trades Fair and joining us for a special weekend of 
blacksmithing workshops at the Rare Trades Centre. 
 
Join blacksmith and founder of Eveleigh Works, Matt Mewburn, and learn to make a beautiful serving spoon from copper and steel that will last for 
generations. 
 
In this full-day workshop, you’ll try your hand at blacksmithing techniques including heating, tapering, texturing and twisting to forge a piece of steel into 
an ergonomic handle for your spoon. 
 
You’ll also try cold forming techniques using a variety of blacksmithing tools such as anvils, hammers, and swages to shape copper sheet into the bowl of 
your spoon before uniting the pieces with copper rivets. 
 
At the end of the day, you will take home a beautiful utensil to use in your kitchen.

Forged and Formed: Copper Serving Utensil

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