Tap tap tap.. into another world.
Create your own contentment with a Coppersmithing workshop in Northern Ireland at Lake & Oak Coppersmithing. Learn the process from professional jewellers and metalsmiths Caron and Matthew and watch as your personal treasure emerges.
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Bend it.
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Twist it.
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Heat it.
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Polish it.
When you create with your hands, you calm your mind.
It’s not about making something that’s perfect, it’s about getting lost in the process of creating. Under the expert guidance of Caron and Matthew, shaping an ordinary piece of copper into something beautiful is entirely achievable even for someone with no previous experience. The various stages are explored and explained, leaving you free to create. Click here to learn more!
Fire, earth, water.
As you use fire to warm the metal, water to cool it, your hands to mould and shape it, then a variety of chisels, hammers and files to shape, texture and polish it, you will feel the personality of this ancient organic material emerging. Discover your creativity!
Man made and
entirely natural.
Working with copper is something humans first began to do sometime between 10,000BC and 5000BC. Being the only metal known for 5 millenia, humans learned to work copper into jewellery, tools, and weapons, before they discovered how to add tin to create bronze. In learning this ancient craft, you will come to understand the pleasure of taking a waste material, in this case old copper pipes, and shaping it into something worth keeping, protecting and passing on.
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Coppersmithing Workshops
We offer a range of workshops in Northern Ireland that are suitable for beginners, creatives, corporate and events! We can also bring our workshop to a place of your choosing!