Early Middle Ages

Course objective: Extraction of iron from iron ore.

What is the European Stone Festival?

No experience in tablet weaving yet? With this course we create the basis for understanding tablet weaving. With an understanding of the structure of a board tape, patterns can then be easily woven - with or without a pattern font. This makes it possible to freely weave your own patterns without sample fonts.

For the 950th anniversary of the Imad cathedral, we offer a journey through time to the Middle Ages!

The MAMUZ castle Asparn / Zaya is dedicated this weekend to the Middle Ages. Guests of the MAMUZ have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the Middle Ages in our region and at the same time immerse themselves in medieval crafts and stories.

Join us for the finale of our Summer of Science & Sorcery as we celebrate all things beer, bread and bees! Try homebrewed nettle beer, grinding wheat for flour, learn about early wheats, taste local honey mead, bake bread in our oven and over the fire, watch a beekeeping demonstration and try local beers.

Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm

Prices: Adults £5.00, Children £2.50,  Under 4's free - Tickets available on the gate on the day. 

European Textile Forum 2019 - Shared Warps, Shared Wefts.

The processes involved in making iron/oak gall ink and quill pens will be demonstrated and practised during this course. Participants will be shown how to make ink monoprints. They will also examine the historical evidence for the use of quill and gall ink with references to further learning.

All participants will bring home a quill pen and a small bottle of gall ink.

This course involves the building of mortared walls using lime, including setting foundations, cutting corner capping stones, mixing lime, pointing of stone and after care.

€200 per participant

This course will be repeated on 13th & 14th July 2019