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Pitt Fest (Video)

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Pitt Fest is the Pitt Rivers museums annual festival. Each year has a theme and 2015 was: Handmade!

We were demonstrating natural dyeing, drop spindle spinning and the warp-weighted loom. it was really exciting to be able to relate our crafts to objects in the museum.

A video about the event has been published by the Pitt Rivers, we are featured from 02:07.

Pitt Fest: Handmade! 2015 from Pitt Rivers Museum on Vimeo.

Hopefully Pitt Fest will continue for many years to come!

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Our stall and dyeing area on the lawn outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Museum handling objects

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We have made a range of items for museum handling collections. These have been made to show ancient crafts and creative techniques. Being able to hold and use something can really bring archaeological artefacts to life for students. They can also represent the mass of organic objects which haven’t survived, to supplement museum objects. The objects are resiliant enough to be used and handled by groups, and being modern, are easily replaceable.

 

For Wallingford Museum we have supplied hand-made ceramic-weighted spindles. These will be a part of their handling collection for school visits and other groups. The spindles are very similar to some archaeological examples which the museum has on display.

 

 

 

For the Ashmolean Museum we have suppied a range of items for their new Bronze Age education sessions.

For their handling collection: Birch bark containers, lime bark cordage and nettle cordage.

For an activity or demonstration: the base plate and willow withys for wattle weaving.

For the Pitt Rivers Museum, we have supplied a range of natural dyestuffs and dyed cloth for a matching game, part of an education session on light and colour. This is part of the Need Make Use / VERVE project at the Pitt Rivers.

Dyes and Pigments matching game for the Pitt Rivers Museum.