Kentucky Rifle Foundation Display at the 2009 Lake Cumberland Mini CLA Show

this is just part of the display by the Kentucky Rifle Foundation

Photographed at the 2009 Lake cumberland mini CLA Show by Jan Riser.

2010 Fine Folk Art & Arms Show of Colonial Pennsylvania: Photos

James Blake

James Blake Headdress

Matt Stein, Demonstrating 18th century woodworking

Tim Sanner, Horner

Ken Gahagan with Dr. Will Dupree

Ken Gahagan Knives

Robert Albrecht

Tom Conde

Pamela Patrick White

Lally House

Dave Hughes on left

John LaBella on left, show organizer

Photos supplied by James Blake.

Fine Folk Art and Arms Show of Colonial Pennesylvania This Weekend

This show will be held at the Sheraton Four Points Greensburg, PA  Friday, October 15 - 16, 2010. There will be decorative arts including paintings, furniture, flintlock firearms, pottery, fraktur art, powder horns, books, copperware, and cutlery. Below are some of the Artist that will be exhibiting there.

John Proud

Mark Thomas

Dave Hughes

Ken Gahagan

Frank and Lally House

Fred Threlfall  

Chris Altland

Bob Albrecht

Frank Willis

Bill Shipman

Mike Small

James Blake

Ed Schweinfurth

Bill Reynolds

Fine Folk Art & Arms Show of Colonial Pennsylvania

Over 65 tables of juried Colonial PA era decorative arts including paintings, furniture, flintlock firearms, pottery, fraktur art, powder horns, books, copperware, and cutlery. This show will be held at the Sheraton Four Points Greensburg, PA  Friday, October 15 - 16, 2010 with artisan set up on Thursday, October 14th. For more information contact John R. LaBella at 724-757-5975 or john1968@highvision.net (Please put "show" in subject box).

More information can be found at Fine Folk Art and Arms.

Introduction to Spinning Class by Renee Gillespie

Renee Gillespie will be teaching a Beginning Spinning Class in Charleston, SC , On Oct 29, 30 2010, at the studio of Mary May in Charleston, on John's Island. Renee, professional fiber spinner, will teach a 2 day class on the process of spinning with a drop spindle and also with a spinning wheel. This class is a part of a larger Traditional Arts School that will offer many classes in traditional wood carving, furniture making, Hand Caning, Using Hand Planes, Calligraphy, 18th century furniture carving, sculpting with clay. Mary May and a host of other professional artists will be teaching these classes from Sept, thru December.

Renee Gillespie has been Spinning Fibers since 2002. She is very proficient in Spinning Wool, Cotton, Flax, Alpaca. She enjoys growing Flax, Heirloom Cotton, and plants for the purpose of Spinning and dying. Renee regularly sets up at the SAFF show near Asheville , NC . She teaches art lessons at the Pickens County Museum in Pickens, SC. Renee has taught Spinning Classes to individuals, small groups and living historians at Kings Mountain National Military Park . Renee's Instructional DVD Series on Spinning has been well received and spinners are looking forward to the release of her flax spinning DVD. Renee and her husband David are Colonial Period Demonstrators, who perpetuate their craft all across the South and enjoy teaching the "old ways, and seeking the old paths." Jeremiah 6:16

In this introduction to spinning class you will learn:
- how fibers are prepared and then spun into yarn using a drop spindle and a spinning wheel
- a bit of history of spinning
- how to identify spindle and wheel parts
- all about various fibers
- how to spin some yarn
- how to ply it
- how to make a skein and wind the yarn into a ball

A fun interactive class that will get you spinning but hopefully not leave you frazzled. Please bring a spinning wheel if you have one and any other fiber supplies you may like to use.

You can learn more about Renee at www.pumpkintownprimitives.com.

Copy and photo supplied by Mary May Carving. Additional copy supplied by David Gillespie.

Dixon's Gunmaker Fair: 2010

Contemporary Fowler by Brad Emig

Hand forged knife by Shane Emig

Display of forged and swaged items by Brad Emig / Cabin Creek Muzzleloading

Dixon's Gunmaker Fair: 2010

Paul Gosnell and Allen Martin

Smooth Rifle, inspired by the work of Isaac Berlin 

 picture of rifles on rack - all by Allen

Don Getz inspecting a horn

Photos supplied by Ian Pratt.