0:00:11 > 0:00:14Making things with your hands.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17That's actually quite nice, doing it with your finger!
0:00:17 > 0:00:20It's an urge as old as time.
0:00:22 > 0:00:28And now more people than ever before are discovering the immense pleasure...
0:00:28 > 0:00:29- Go, go, go! - Ya!- Yes!
0:00:29 > 0:00:31- And pride... - Yes!
0:00:31 > 0:00:34...that craft can bring.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39Making something from start to finish is extremely satisfying.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43I'm really, really, really chuffed with that!
0:00:43 > 0:00:47This week, we get right inside the creative process,
0:00:47 > 0:00:52as six novices master the art of hooky rug making...
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Just got really into the zone. I'm really enjoying it!
0:00:55 > 0:00:58..and make their own letter press designs.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03- When it goes down? - Pull that forwards, that's lovely.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- You happy with that?- Yeah. - Really lovely, that is.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06Beautiful.
0:01:28 > 0:01:34We're in Bamburgh on the north-east Coast with world renowned rug maker Heather Ritchie.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35I adore the sea, I love the coast
0:01:35 > 0:01:40and I think the north-east has the most wonderful coastline.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45Bamburgh's famous for the famous historic tidal island of Lindisfarne,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47also known as Holy Island.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51I adore being on Lindisfarne.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53The tide comes in,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57it cuts you off and it's very, very special and there's the monastery
0:01:57 > 0:02:00and the church and the castle and the seals are singing at night.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03It's a fabulous place.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07Over 30 years ago, Heather discovered that she could use fine
0:02:07 > 0:02:14fabrics and a technique known as hooking to create intricate designs.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I painted a picture with rugs and I thought, "Wow,
0:02:17 > 0:02:18"I can get away with this!"
0:02:34 > 0:02:36When I first did the rug with all the old men on,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38you're working very close.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41They're just little dots, you see and they're very close
0:02:41 > 0:02:44and you don't really see them.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47And it isn't till you take them away and you hang them
0:02:47 > 0:02:53up and "I thought, oh, my goodness, there, I've captured them. It's them. I've got them."
0:02:53 > 0:02:58Today, Heather is back in Bamburgh to teach six makers,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00all beginners in rug making,
0:03:00 > 0:03:06how to create their own hooky seat cushions over two days.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Welcome, everybody. Has anybody done rug making before?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- No? You're all new to this? - Yep.- Oh, brilliant.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I love to start somebody off. I know more than you, you see.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16So, I've got the upper hand.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22To create her intricate rugs, Heather uses a small hook
0:03:22 > 0:03:26and a sheet of hessian tightly stretched into a frame.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33You sit your hessian in the frame, with the one with the screw on the top.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- That's right, there and that will tighten.- Ah.- There you go.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40That's it and that'll tighten up. You OK?
0:03:40 > 0:03:45That's right and that one'll sit on the top and tighten it.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Now you can use any colours you want.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Just feel free, I've given you a whole mix of yarns
0:03:50 > 0:03:52and all different types of fabric.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Some'll work for you and some won't
0:03:55 > 0:03:57but it gives you the experience as to what's best.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- You've got some greens here. - Oh, yeah, lovely.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02There's some greens.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Hooky rugs are made from the thin strips cut from recycled fabrics.
0:04:06 > 0:04:11Everything from second hand sweaters, to old curtains,
0:04:11 > 0:04:15even raw wool can be cut into strips and used to add texture.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Anyway, if anybody wants to use this, you don't
0:04:20 > 0:04:21have to spin it, to use it.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24You can just pull it out and you can hook that in.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26- Do we have a shepherd here? - It's this one, here.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Oh, right!
0:04:30 > 0:04:35John and Mary are local farmers with more than 300 sheep
0:04:35 > 0:04:38and they've brought some wool along to use in their work.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Well you're flattering me by calling me a shepherd. I'm a farmer who keeps sheep.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Yes, well that's, that's the same to me.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47That is quite a complementary thing you know.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Before anyone makes a start on their seat cushions,
0:04:51 > 0:04:56they must first master the basic skill of hooking.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58So, you've all got a little hook.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01There's your hook and you see it's got a little hook on the end.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05I'm going to put the hook in and I'm scooping it.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10So, I bring the first little piece up onto the top, with my hook and
0:05:10 > 0:05:16I just leave a couple of threads, I go right in and I pull a loop up.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Take your strip of fabric,
0:05:18 > 0:05:23and use one hand to hold the material underneath the hessian.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Push your hook through, catch the fabric
0:05:26 > 0:05:28and pull it up through the hole.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35Push your hook back in, scoop up the material underneath, and pull a hoop up.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51To maintain an even pattern,
0:05:51 > 0:05:54make your holes roughly half a centimetre apart
0:05:54 > 0:05:56and pull your hoops up to the same height.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18And just scoop it up...
0:06:21 > 0:06:23In, grab it and pull it up.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I think the difficult thing is to...
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- it catches when I'm coming back up. - Uh-huh.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- So, on the next piece of... - Yes.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- It's just a knack. Easy, don't worry...- Yeah.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Just ease it through.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42I'm pushing the hook in.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45But how'd you know where the wool is? Are you holding it?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Yes. Yes, I've got it on my finger.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Right, I'm just grabbing it and scooping it.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Grabbing it... it's really just getting the technique,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56at the end of the day.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Don't be frightened of pushing your hook right in
0:06:59 > 0:07:02because that actually opens up the hessian.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Yeah, and just ease it through between the threads.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13She talks about scooping. My scooping technique's not going very well yet.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I'm pulling the wrong ones through.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20There's just some spaces and I dunno.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- Can we start again?- Yes.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Because I think it'll be easier to come from the right.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- Oh, right.- Are you right handed? - I am right handed, yes.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31So take it from here, right and bring that end up.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- Now, bring them closer together and bring them higher up.- Higher up.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- Bring them higher up. OK? - It looks so easy when you do it.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41- And you can feel it....- Yeah! - Well, I've done it for years.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50Indra is a cosmetic dentist, originally from the Netherlands but
0:07:50 > 0:07:54she moved to Northumberland ten years ago, to set up her own practice.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- Thank you.- There you go.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58So, how far do you go apart just here?
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Just a couple of threads. Your hook has to be facing up.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05That's it, right through.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08That's lovely - and as you're working, feel on the back
0:08:08 > 0:08:11and if it's smooth, you know you're all right.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13If it's lumpy, just take it back and re-do it.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15- Right. - That's looking good, that.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- What's it like on the other side? - Hee, hee, neat!
0:08:17 > 0:08:19That is neat, yeah.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23It's just that getting used to that, that pulling it through
0:08:23 > 0:08:25and this, this is quite stiff fabric.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28That's what I've just found, is this one's pretty stiff as well.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29That first one was totally different,
0:08:29 > 0:08:32so the fabrics make a massive difference.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Although they've never tried rug making, married couple,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39Tracey and Adam have been keen crafters for years.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Do you know, out of all the crafts that I was thinking,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44this is never one that I would have considered.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47When Tracey said, "Oh, this is the one I really want to do,"
0:08:47 > 0:08:50I was like, "Really?" "Rag rug making?'"
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I was like can't we do something like...
0:08:53 > 0:08:55..iron work or something?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Now I'm glad we are doing it, cos it is good.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01It's really good.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05They're all filling a 20cm square.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08By the end of the exercise,
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Heather hopes the students will have mastered the technique
0:09:12 > 0:09:16and started to blend colours and textures together.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19This is a bit different to the normal stitches I'm doing for work.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20What do you normally do?
0:09:20 > 0:09:24- I'm an A&E doctor. - Oh, right.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- Oh, gosh, this is a little bit different, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30My patient's not moving too much. It's quite good.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36There's some wool there, look.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Let's have a look. Oh, that looks rather good. I like it.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52In daily life, there's a lot of pressure,
0:09:52 > 0:09:53especially for working mums.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57I think doing this, um, would give me, really some me time.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21How've you found your hooking?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22Yeah, I've got there in the end.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- I've worked out how to do it, eventually.- You have.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28The fleece was fun to use but it's quite stiff, isn't it?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- It's, it's sticky.- Mm.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- But I'm getting there. - Yes, jolly good. I love it.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- Thank you. I really like this, like fluffy wool.- Uh-huh.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I like the texture cos it goes like thick and thin.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Look what we've got for John. Wow.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Well, um, I got a bit carried away...- It's wonderful! Yes?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- ..with using the, the fleece. - Yes?
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- And I did a patch and it gradually morphed into being a sheep... - That's it.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55- ..and so I thought I'd give it a head and um...- It's evolved. It's wonderful.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00- You see how they're different. Everybody's are different, you know. - Yeah.- They're beautiful.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02- You've all got the hang of it now, haven't you?- Yep.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04So, it was just getting that technique
0:11:04 > 0:11:06and a little bit of practise.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- You're all happy? - Happy... Yeah...
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Good, yeah?- It's going all right... - Yeah, jolly good.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21Right, we're now going to work on our main designs for the workshop, and you're going to make a seat pad.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Have you all got a design, or an idea in your heads?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29I've got a picture of our dog, Luna, that's really nice,
0:11:29 > 0:11:31like on the beach, here at Bamburgh.
0:11:31 > 0:11:36She was looking out at the, all the cairns that people built there.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39So I'm just trying to work out how to draw a dog
0:11:39 > 0:11:41because I'm not great at drawing.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47The rough design is sketched on in chalk,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50so any mistakes can be easily rubbed off.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54I want to do something really quite bold and abstract.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58So, I'm going for kind of a big swirl of sea cos this is what
0:11:58 > 0:12:05reminds me of being up here in the, in the north-east, Northumberland.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07I proposed to Tracey up here,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09so it's kind of a bit of a special place.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15It certainly is. It's lovely, love it up here.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Once the design is complete,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23the outline is re-drawn with permanent marker pen.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28- So, where you want to start is, just get the outline in.- Yeah.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- Get his outline in...- Yeah.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- Uh-huh and then get his eye in. - Yeah.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Always get the eye in.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37And then, you can just fill in with whatever you've got.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44My picture is inspired by my wedding bouquet.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Me and my husband got married very recently,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51so I wanted to make something to remember my flowers by.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55We look down on Holy Island and we just absolutely love the beach
0:12:55 > 0:12:58and so I want a fairly linear picture, with some rocks here.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01And maybe some of the sheep's fleece might make these waves...
0:13:01 > 0:13:03They could do the edge of the waves, yes.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- Might be quite sort of fluffy. - It will be beautiful.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08I just love going and visiting the island.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12It has such a wonderful feel about it and our cows go there
0:13:12 > 0:13:15for their overseas holidays every year from October to December.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18They'll be going next week.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Overseas holiday.- Lucky cows.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26I've got some cut outs.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30I did some drawings of things that meant things to me on the farm.
0:13:32 > 0:13:33So, I'm going to um,
0:13:33 > 0:13:39trace that on and then see where I'm going to start actually stitching.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43He doesn't often engage for so many hours on a sort of creative project.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48He's very good at making book shelves, or hen houses
0:13:48 > 0:13:53but this is a new experience, which he seems to be really enjoying.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57I've got a buzzard but I don't think there's room for the buzzard,
0:13:57 > 0:14:01so pff, maybe he'll have to go and hunt somewhere else, I think.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03That's the house.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04A bit better close up.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- Oh, wow. - It's so difficult to do all these...
0:14:07 > 0:14:08It's very complex.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Indra has brought pictures of her family
0:14:11 > 0:14:14home in Holland for inspiration.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19I was actually going to do a family estate in the Netherlands and I was
0:14:19 > 0:14:22going to do a bit of water and the main house there but now I'm sitting
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- next to Mary and she comes out with her pictures and this one just really...- Oh, yes, yes, beautiful.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28..it really caught my eye.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Also because my little boy, Olly, we have some guinea fowl as well...
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- Oh, right.- ..and he loves looking for feathers.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Yes! Do that then. That's brilliant.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Changing my mind and I think it's nicer to
0:14:39 > 0:14:41sit on feathers, maybe than to sit on a house, anyway.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Yes, yes, yes.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I'm speeding along.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I do have a bit of a competitive streak.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28I'm actually teaching my four-year-old at the moment,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30you can't always win.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- Ah, is there competition going on here?- Probably.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I am pretty competitive, so...
0:15:39 > 0:15:41It's the joy of making something that counts.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43We'll see.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54Making things with your hands is more popular than ever before.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58Here are a few people who've made extraordinary things as a way
0:15:58 > 0:16:00to express themselves.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02I have a paper garden.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04I made it doing paper cutting.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07I live in Argentina in a flat all my life,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10so when I moved to England, it was just great to have a house
0:16:10 > 0:16:12with a garden that I can just plant things.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15I have flowers, so I love it so much.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19I craft because, um, I'm a mother of three
0:16:19 > 0:16:21and this is a thing for myself.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26It's lovely to create something and have something at the end,
0:16:26 > 0:16:28that you've made, that's you, a bit of you.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Just do things for fun.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Make something quirky, make it crooked, make it have holes in it.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34That's me.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39I make Kirigami, which is paper architecture.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44So, the piece I have with me here is a scene of London.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Got the skyscrapers, you've got traditional Georgian buildings,
0:16:48 > 0:16:51industrial buildings across East London.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57I feel like a kid again when I'm making Kirigami.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21This is the studio of wordsmith and printmaker Kelvyn Smith,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24where our next workshop will take place.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30It's a real haven, it's a real treasure and um, something
0:17:30 > 0:17:34I really value to come to this absolutely gorgeous Victorian space.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36It is my shed.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39It's the shed at the bottom of the garden that I come to every day
0:17:39 > 0:17:43and it's the place that I feel the happiest in.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Kelvyn's work involves a traditional technique called letterpress,
0:17:47 > 0:17:52using individual letters to make inked impressions on paper.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55One of the lovely things about letterpress is that it's a
0:17:55 > 0:17:57very slow process and a very articulate process.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00So, when you set type, you set type one letter at a time,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03one word at a time, one line at a time, one paragraph at a time.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Originally developed in the 15th century, letterpress became
0:18:07 > 0:18:12the main form of printing and communication for over 350 years.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18The outcome of letterpress is usually very beautiful.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21So yeah, it's a lovely way to get inside language
0:18:21 > 0:18:26but also understand spacing and pauses and the silences and all
0:18:26 > 0:18:30those lovely things, which are very poetic but also very special.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38Today, Kelvyn will be teaching letterpress to five beginners,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41who'll be making their own personalised prints.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44They include an engaged couple...
0:18:47 > 0:18:48..a textiles student...
0:18:51 > 0:18:55..and a stonemason with his son, a carpenter.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01So, letterpress is a really simple process, all right.
0:19:01 > 0:19:02You say that.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04It is, it is actually really simple.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07I'll remember that later, yeah?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11And one of the key kind of elements of today is, keep it simple.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15I don't know how complicated you think all the things you want to
0:19:15 > 0:19:18do, keep it simple because actually, that's what becomes more effective.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19To get them started,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Kelvin is setting the group a practise exercise.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27What I would like you to do is to think of one word that would
0:19:27 > 0:19:30describe yourself as accurately as possible.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Maybe you would describe each other.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Does I have to be nice?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36You don't have to be nice, no, you can be, you can be
0:19:36 > 0:19:38as rude as you like.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53She's crazy. No, she's bright.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55See, you are crazy now!
0:19:55 > 0:19:56OK, so we're going with bright, yeah?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59I did the R upside down because, dunno,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01she's got a bit of a clumsy side to her.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- So, I thought I'd... - That's nice. That's great.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- OK and what've you got? - Feel like I shouldn't show him now.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- It's a bit soppy, your one. - Lovable.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12It's not just me.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Well done. Knitter?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Yeah.- Yeah. I think Knitter's all right.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Can I have different type faces as long as they're the same size?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23That would be nice. So, you're knitting different fonts together to make a one word.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25- Yeah, one, yeah. - Yeah, so that's a lovely idea.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28- Stubborn?- I want to go for stubborn.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Are you stubborn?- Mm.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- I can vouch for that. - Is he?- Yeah.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36And I think I might do it down here as well, just to be stubborn.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- You're not perplexed, are you? - Not really.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Man of your integrity.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41But I like the perplexed word. It's great.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Yeah, OK.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46How do you make a decision about choosing your typeface and can
0:20:46 > 0:20:50you start to describe what lovable means by this choice of typeface?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53You know, is it a soft and gentle typeface, or is it a bold
0:20:53 > 0:20:57- and, you know, is it a big type, bold typeface?- No.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Cos even though he's big, he's got different side to him.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02OK. OK.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05The most difficult thing today is understanding that you have
0:21:05 > 0:21:07to set type upside down, left to right.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Everything is reverse and when it's printed, it's round the right way.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12And when lots of people kind of, um...
0:21:12 > 0:21:13- Mix your P's and Q's. - Yeah, so...
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- Oh. - You've gotta watch your Ps and Qs
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Ah, is that where it comes from?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21- That's where it comes from. - This is where it comes from.- Oh.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23With their words chosen,
0:21:23 > 0:21:27it's time for the students to begin selecting their typeface.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32OK...ah, lovable.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34He's so cute!
0:21:34 > 0:21:37- I want it to look cute. - Yeah.- Cute feel.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- Cute isn't easy with type. - No.- But...
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Maybe the size then?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46Yeah, there's a kind of volume to it, which is interesting,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50you know, um... wonder where I've put them, I've moved them.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55Kelvyn has a master collection of over 500 cases of type,
0:21:55 > 0:21:58dating back to the early 1900s.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01This is a 48-point case.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Really lovely font. It kind of feels to me
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- like that's got a bit of character.- Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08It's got a lovely kind of strength to it but it's also elegant as well.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- Heavy.- Mm. Extremely heavy.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Just be careful with this.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19I'm perplexed about how to set out perplexed.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Actually, um, I'm trying to work out a way to do it,
0:22:24 > 0:22:28so that it actually means what I'm trying to put down into words.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31A V, that way?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- That's correct, yeah, upside down, left to right.- V, E...
0:22:34 > 0:22:37E - managed to choose the letter of the alphabet out of the largest box.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- That's right, that's an E. - Oh, yeah.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41- Lower case, L, which is in this section there.- Yeah.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45L and then back to E, there.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And back to E, which is in the large box. That's great.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Bianca places her type in a composing stick,
0:22:52 > 0:22:56one of the most important tools in the workshop.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00The composing stick is used to assemble your letters in order,
0:23:00 > 0:23:03which is always upside down and left to right.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07This process is known as setting type.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11First, set the measurement of your line, which is
0:23:11 > 0:23:14done using a measurement unit called a pica.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19To print the word MAKE your M must be rotated, 180 degrees,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22along with all the other letters that follow it.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30Now, is the chance to look at the spaces between your letters.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33To do this, open up the type by simply dropping
0:23:33 > 0:23:36pieces of lead in between each letter.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Finally, add some wooden spaces, called, reglets,
0:23:49 > 0:23:53at the front and end of your word to hold it all together.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Now, remember, you are looking at things upside down
0:24:17 > 0:24:18and left to right.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22- So, if you imagine there's a mirror...- Yeah.- ..here. That's it.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28That's right, so you got that right, lovely.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29You got it right, there.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31So, they're all upside down.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Yeah.- Except for the R, which flips round the other way.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37So that's great. If you wanted to, we could open these up slightly.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40It's quite a wide font.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Then, you see each one of these, there,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45come with all different widths but you're using your eye
0:24:45 > 0:24:46to drop a few of these in there at a time.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50You are determining that there's a space in between each one of these.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53That's lovely and when you're done, put the lead on top of there.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56So, that is your line set, upside down, left to right.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00Once it's printed, it's printed round the other way.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02For their practice prints,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05the students have chosen a metallic silver ink.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06Oh, nice.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Really lovely and metallic ink, OK.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Kelvyn has a range of printers, but for their first word they're
0:25:13 > 0:25:16using a 19th century pedal powered press.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20The mechanism is lovely, OK.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22That's it. There we go, that's it.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25So, it's quite a weight on the pedal, isn't there?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Got a bit of a motion.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- And then with the pedal... - Oh, yes.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33..the rollers lift up onto the inking plate.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36There's a little ratchet on the plate that turns,
0:25:36 > 0:25:39so that it just mixes different parts each time.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42It makes a lovely sound, all the mechanics and...
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Yeah, that's what's lovely, isn't it?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47And it kind of ticks over, you know?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52It's a bit like, um, one of those old bikes.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53I used to have a bike like this.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- What kind of bike was that? - Fix-wheeled bike.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58It was like a fixed wheel, so like, to break you'd have to pedal backwards.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- What?- Showing his age now.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Yeah.- Yeah. - So, it reminded me of that.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08What you're doing is you want to make sure the plate is solid with ink.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14So, with your right hand, pick up a sheet of that blue card,
0:26:14 > 0:26:16that's it, into there,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20nice and square and just, that's it, take your hands out.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Next time you're down at the bottom, there,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26that lever will just push forward gently...
0:26:29 > 0:26:33And that takes the press, pull that lever back now, please.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Look at that!- Yeah, it's good. - OK, that's great.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40- Leaving the backing there, if you can, and then have a look at that. So, look at that.- Beautiful.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44So, look at that, so, a bright bright for Bianca.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- I am quite quirky. - No, it's says bright.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Yeah, but it's still got a quirky feel to it.- Yeah.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54I like it because, where it's come slightly off-line,
0:26:54 > 0:26:56it has the effect I wanted. So, I'm happy with that.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59So, if it was round the correct way, it wouldn't mean anything.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02It would just say the word bright. The fact that there's something
0:27:02 > 0:27:06going on there is the thing that makes it interesting, typographically.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08It's really lovely. I really like it. Really simple.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Really simple.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13I think something about that is really classy.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Creating something with your hands can be as simple,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00or as complicated as you like.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05Even a single sheet of paper can be made into something quite beautiful.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Sam Sang discovered Origami, while working as an IT consultant
0:28:12 > 0:28:15and he hasn't stopped folding since.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20He's going to show us how to make an Origami lily,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23which can also be made into LED fairy lights.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25You need a square piece of paper.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27I've got a nice pink one.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29So, um, we're going to start with the white side.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36Everyone needs a creative outlet.
0:28:36 > 0:28:41Everyone needs to be able to choose something they can touch and feel.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44It's a response to our digital lifestyles.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Just poke it in the middle, all the way down and it'll kind of pop.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57Origami allows you to focus on what you're doing right there,
0:28:57 > 0:29:01without any distractions from work or life or money troubles.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08What should happen now is that it stays open a little
0:29:08 > 0:29:12bit like a bird mouth, looking for a worm.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15Just pick up a piece of paper, a bill, or a receipt or just
0:29:15 > 0:29:19a crumpled piece of paper and you can start folding.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25If you're interested in giving Origami a go,
0:29:25 > 0:29:29just visit our website, where you can follow instructions.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44It's slow, isn't it? It looks amazing.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47- It's such a lovely yellow. - Yeah, it's really hard work though.
0:29:47 > 0:29:51In Northumberland, the hooky seat cushions are taking shape
0:29:51 > 0:29:55under the watchful eye of rug expert, Heather.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57- I'm climbing the tree trunk there. - Good. Great.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59You're getting there.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Well, I just had a failure actually, cos I got hold of it
0:30:02 > 0:30:04and it all pulled out. What do you say then?
0:30:04 > 0:30:05- Nothing.- Nothing.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Just keep quiet, no.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10..I felt like saying something.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16The students are working on their foregrounds.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20First, hooking the outlines before filling in the shapes.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Have you done this all your life then, pretty much?
0:30:27 > 0:30:33No, I moved into the Yorkshire Dales in 1971, um and everybody made rugs.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36I was of the era when the children got to bed
0:30:36 > 0:30:38and the mat frames came out and every night
0:30:38 > 0:30:42I would be making mats and I really got quite addicted to it.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46The thing was, I would have liked to have really painted and I used to paint
0:30:46 > 0:30:49but I didn't think my paintings were very good and then
0:30:49 > 0:30:53I discovered I could do a scene on a rug and everybody loved it.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55This was when I knew I was coming to Bamburgh...
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Oh, that's Bamburgh Castle!
0:30:57 > 0:31:00So, oh, do you recognise it? Oh, good! Good on you.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04That's great cos it's just my impression of Bamburgh Castle.
0:31:04 > 0:31:05It's not finished yet. I'm working on it.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07I love the sky.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09And so, it's just lots of wools, hand spun
0:31:09 > 0:31:13and just hand cut fabrics have gone into that.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18I've always, um,
0:31:18 > 0:31:21had a huge empathy for anyone that's lost their vision because my
0:31:21 > 0:31:27dad was blind and when Dad lost his sight, he wouldn't have a guide dog.
0:31:27 > 0:31:29- He said he had a little girl. - Aww.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32And she would be his sight, his eyes and that's what I was.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36And everywhere we went, we counted the steps.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39So, we'd count the steps between the lamps, so he didn't bump into them,
0:31:39 > 0:31:42the steps across the street, so he knew where the kerbs were.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47So, that's my little memory rug of Dad and walking round Sunderland.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49- You've got the light beautiful on the reflection...- You like it?
0:31:49 > 0:31:51..the light on the building.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Well, it's just a bit of artistic licence, have a bit of fun.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Very good.
0:32:21 > 0:32:22Got my piles now.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Got my blues, my yellows and my reds.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Cos I want to try and keep a limited colour.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29That's gorgeous. That's lovely, yes.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31Now, I've got this little magic tool here.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34It's a kaleidoscope and if you zoom in on that, that will
0:32:34 > 0:32:35mix the colours for you in there.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38- Oh, I wondered what that was for! - Yeah, it's my little secret gadget.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41So, you zoom in on there and it'll let you see the colours.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44- Your eye would see them from the distance.- Very clever.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47And then, you see, you can take one out if you don't like it,
0:32:47 > 0:32:50or say if you fancied that, put that in and you can play...
0:32:50 > 0:32:52No, I don't like that.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54No, till you've got the arrangement you want.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55Isn't it fabulous?
0:32:55 > 0:32:58- Have a look at that. - It's my favourite little thing.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59- Oh, yeah...- Yeah.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04Look at this bobbly wool. This is really good, isn't it?
0:33:04 > 0:33:07- I bought this in the charity shop the other day.- You bought that!
0:33:07 > 0:33:10- This is when she gave me too much change.- Right.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13I think it's a bit heavy to do a bit more, isn't it, really?
0:33:13 > 0:33:16Can I get a bit carried away with the...
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- Oh, right, it looks good. Yeah. - Shall I do a whole row of it? - Yeah, definitely.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26The sheep wool that Mary and John brought from their farm
0:33:26 > 0:33:29is proving particularly popular.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33I'm trying to, um, create quite a woolly, fluffy effect,
0:33:33 > 0:33:37so I can show, hopefully, it'll look a bit more wavy.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39That's the idea, like the wave tops.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Is this like how it comes off the sheep?
0:33:41 > 0:33:45- That's straight off the sheep. Straight off the sheep...- Lovely.
0:33:45 > 0:33:49The lanolin in it, in your hands. You'll have lovely soft hands.
0:33:49 > 0:33:50It smells amazing, though.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53- It's really, really er... - It does! Smells really nice.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Sheepy.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57It's a good smell.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Indra is also using some wool for the guinea fowl
0:34:00 > 0:34:04feathers on the seat cushion she's making for her son.
0:34:04 > 0:34:09It's getting a bit better now I've found this fluffy stuff.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12It makes it a bit more feathery like.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14So, what does your son do with his feather collection?
0:34:14 > 0:34:18Um, he has a nice little box and he just keeps them in there
0:34:18 > 0:34:22- and he shows them to everybody. - Nice.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25And wants to look at them. That's it, isn't it?
0:34:25 > 0:34:28- That's his joy.- That's his joy. - That's really nice.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10I do suffer from anxiety quite a lot and I've had some pretty bad
0:35:10 > 0:35:14spells of it over the time, and I do think that crafting's helped no end.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17It really just gives you that chance not to have to think
0:35:17 > 0:35:19and that's part of the,
0:35:19 > 0:35:22the problem with anxiety is that you overthink things.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Anxiety for me
0:35:24 > 0:35:27has always been about feeling the need to get everything right, all the time
0:35:27 > 0:35:30and it's difficult to do that and sometimes you
0:35:30 > 0:35:35fall into this kind of cycle of self-doubt and things snowball.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38So, you start off with a little seed of a thought about something,
0:35:38 > 0:35:42which is nothing and it gradually, it builds into something much bigger and much worse.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45And I think, with craft, what it gives you is that time not to have
0:35:45 > 0:35:49those thoughts, cos actually you're thinking about doing something else.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52You know, you're focused on doing this, for example, so I think
0:35:52 > 0:35:58it's a really, really, powerful tool to help, kind of, calm your mind.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Indra, I was at home last night and wondered
0:36:37 > 0:36:40if you'd like this colour for your background?
0:36:40 > 0:36:41Oh! That is fantastic!
0:36:41 > 0:36:43I thought it had a bit of shine that might look really nice on yours.
0:36:43 > 0:36:47Oh, I actually do love that. Thank you so much!
0:36:47 > 0:36:48Not at all.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03With everyone making good progress with their hooking technique,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06Heather's confident that they can tackle a variation.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09I would like to introduce you to the proddy technique.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12You've been doing the hooky but now, you need to do the proddy.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16You might want to incorporate some of this into your designs.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20Prodding uses short strips of fabric,
0:37:20 > 0:37:26which can be prodded in from behind or pulled through the front
0:37:26 > 0:37:31using a spring hook, which pinches the short strips through the front.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35So, you're gripping it like tweezers, pincers, and you leave go.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37You can't do much detail in this
0:37:37 > 0:37:40because you've got this shaggy effect here but you might
0:37:40 > 0:37:43want to incorporate that into some of your designs you're doing.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46I might have hooked a rug and I feel I want to put a little border
0:37:46 > 0:37:49round, so this one might make a nice fancy little border for me.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Oh, I like that border idea.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55Yeah, so you can make a nice little frilly border.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Just tried the proddy technique
0:38:06 > 0:38:10and I've just used it on the leaves here and I've cut them
0:38:10 > 0:38:17on a point to make them look more like leaves, rather than flat ends.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21So, I'm going to do that for some other leaves a bit later on.
0:38:21 > 0:38:26Right, guys, you've got 30 minutes to finish.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29- Ooh, come on, come on. - Can't be done! Can't be done!
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Yes, it can. It has to be done.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34- That a way, Hennie! - That a way!
0:38:35 > 0:38:38I've got a lot to do in 30 minutes so,
0:38:38 > 0:38:43I'm just going to get my head down and keep going.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46- Let's have a look, Tracy, hold it up for me.- No.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47I'm not holding it up!
0:38:47 > 0:38:50I'm on a roll, I'm not stopping.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Yeah, you're well up.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57- You're going to be the first to finish.- What?
0:38:57 > 0:38:59- You're going to be the first to finish.- No, no.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02- Indra's finished. - Indra's finished? Oh, gosh.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06I decided just to make another border edge
0:39:06 > 0:39:10because there's still enough time and I really don't have
0:39:10 > 0:39:16anything else to do, which never happens in my life but,
0:39:16 > 0:39:22no laptop here, no kids, no dentistry, so another border it is.
0:39:29 > 0:39:34Down to literally the last three, maybe four stitches.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38What about you, Tracy?
0:39:38 > 0:39:39More than that.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- She's too busy to talk. - Yeah.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Yeah, you could hear a pin drop couldn't you now?
0:39:47 > 0:39:49Hear my brain whirring away.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53Last one.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Yeah. You've beaten me.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Yes!
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Well done.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05Oh, no, no it wasn't. All right, that was a, that was a false start.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08I've just seen, I've seen a little gap...I forgot to fill in.
0:40:14 > 0:40:19Right across the country, people are expressing themselves using
0:40:19 > 0:40:22all sorts of different materials.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26Well, these are um, woollen painting.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29I was looking for something creative, something that
0:40:29 > 0:40:33would give me a bit of light in a deep, deep, deepest depression,
0:40:33 > 0:40:39something colourful and bright and therapeutic and I found felting.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42It's wonderful. It's my life, you know? It's my love.
0:40:43 > 0:40:48This is a little quilt that was made in HMP Wandsworth.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50I teach prisoners to quilt.
0:40:50 > 0:40:53A lot of the prisoners, I was going to say,
0:40:53 > 0:40:56banged up, for a very long time and it gives them
0:40:56 > 0:41:01a real feeling of hope and it fosters a great sense of self worth.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03How good is that?
0:41:03 > 0:41:09Long time I haven't seen beautiful Japanese cherry blossom
0:41:09 > 0:41:12but if I make cherry blossom by paper,
0:41:12 > 0:41:16I can keep forever and it's beautiful and it makes me happy.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26OK, guys.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29I'd quite like to move on to the more detailed projects
0:41:29 > 0:41:31that we're going to have a look at this afternoon.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33In the letterpress studio,
0:41:33 > 0:41:36the students are preparing to design their main prints.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40You want to make a project together.
0:41:40 > 0:41:41- Yeah.- OK, do you know what it is you want to do?
0:41:41 > 0:41:44We want to make Save The Dates for our wedding.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46- OK, you getting married? - January 19th. Yeah.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48- Congratulations. - Thank you!- Congratulations.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52Where's the ring? OK, well, well done.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55Right...do you, have you a strong idea?
0:41:55 > 0:41:59Strong idea? I would like to take a couple of lines from a poem...
0:41:59 > 0:42:02OK great. What kind of poem is that?
0:42:02 > 0:42:05It's a poem that I wrote and it's in Jamaican Patois,
0:42:05 > 0:42:09so I like that sort of quirkiness of having the patois in letterpress.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Otis is a woodworker
0:42:11 > 0:42:15and his design is based on his favourite carpentry phrase.
0:42:16 > 0:42:20Measure twice and cut once, which is quite a kind of, you know,
0:42:20 > 0:42:22I think it's quite relevant to me.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Making runs in the family.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28His dad, Neil, is a professional engraver.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33He's carved the gravestones of, amongst others,
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Malcolm McLaren and Patrick Caulfield.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40Over the 40 years of my career, you learn a lot of things.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43You make memorials and headstones for young,
0:42:43 > 0:42:45very young and sometimes very old, if they're lucky.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47So, really poignant stuff, really.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51Poignant stuff and one of the things that seriously plays with me,
0:42:51 > 0:42:53is live for today.
0:42:53 > 0:42:54It's not a rehearsal.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58- Yeah, definitely.- And I want to somehow create that.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01What's important, I think at this stage is to,
0:43:01 > 0:43:03- just to dive straight into the design thing.- Yeah.
0:43:03 > 0:43:08If you work there, Lorna, if you guys kind of come round
0:43:08 > 0:43:11to working here and then, if you two work side by side over there.
0:43:11 > 0:43:14Yeah, take a sheet of paper with you
0:43:14 > 0:43:16so you've got your size to work to and then good luck
0:43:16 > 0:43:19and I will be, heads down, coming down, thank you very much.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Let's get on.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26The thing is, like, well my daddy's dead now
0:43:26 > 0:43:28but he used to write poetry.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29For over 20 years,
0:43:29 > 0:43:33Lorna's Jamaican father would write letters to her, in rhyme.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36And so, it's given me that love for rhyming.
0:43:36 > 0:43:40Not necessarily for writing but for writing poetry,
0:43:40 > 0:43:42so that's how I got into writing poetry.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46- Fantastic, so, I see it's from the correspondence from your father really.- Yeah, yeah.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50Lorna is from East Sussex.
0:43:50 > 0:43:54She's studying knitting at the Royal College of Art.
0:44:00 > 0:44:01- What is the title? - A soh it goh.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05- And so it go?- And so, that's the way it goes.- That's the way it goes...
0:44:05 > 0:44:07- Yeah, but we like to say, a soh it goh.- OK, great.
0:44:07 > 0:44:11The reason why I wrote the poem was because, you know,
0:44:11 > 0:44:15when people say like, as a black person, where'd you come from?
0:44:15 > 0:44:19And you say, I was born in England. But where do you really come from?
0:44:19 > 0:44:23So, it was a response to that and saying that you can't take my identity.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25What you have you can't take from me.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27No, you can't take my identity.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29So, it's only two lines from a longer poem.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31How mixed do you think the font needs to be?
0:44:31 > 0:44:34No, I'm not going to mix the fonts cos I think
0:44:34 > 0:44:37because it is a patois, you're going to have to take time to read it,
0:44:37 > 0:44:39so I just want it bold and simple.
0:44:41 > 0:44:46Lorna has opted to use a tall, slim, sans serif font.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51So look, we've got an A in this font and an A in this one. And we've got...
0:44:51 > 0:44:54- Ah, is there a reason why you putting them upside down?- Say again?
0:44:54 > 0:44:56Is there a reason why you're putting them upside down?
0:44:56 > 0:44:59Yeah, so cos we're reading everything upside down initially
0:44:59 > 0:45:02- and this is where you're going to enjoy yourself.- Yeah.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04- W, A, T.- Yeah.
0:45:04 > 0:45:08So, it's left to right but it's upside down.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10- But I've got a, I can't... - That's all right.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12- Unless you've got a mirror... - We have got a mirror.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14With the mirror.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Cos I can't...I know what you're saying.
0:45:16 > 0:45:21If you do this and in here is the image.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24Oh, yeah, OK, yeah, yeah, I could look at that all day.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26That's like, it's like magic.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31- Do you want the proper names or do you want Ant and B?- No, I want B.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34Or do you want Anthony? Or Anthony and Bianca?
0:45:34 > 0:45:36No, Ant and B, a bit more personal.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39- He stole my heart, so I stole his name?- So, I'm stealing his name.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42Oh, I'm sorry, so I'm stealing his name.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44And, um, we'll put A & B.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47- Save the date. Do you want the location?- Yeah.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49- You sure?- Yeah.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54Ant proposed to Bianca on New Year's Day
0:45:54 > 0:45:57last year and they're getting married next summer.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03We met online... Online dating.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05So we're a new age couple.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09Yes, definitely. Um...I wasn't on very long.
0:46:09 > 0:46:10I didn't really like it.
0:46:10 > 0:46:14I said to her she was lucky, cos I was on there quite a while
0:46:14 > 0:46:17and in the two weeks she was all right, she found someone.
0:46:18 > 0:46:23But um, yeah, and um, two, two and a half years,
0:46:23 > 0:46:25nearly three years, here we are.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31Bianca has already chosen the colour scheme for their wedding.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34Obviously having the duck egg blue colour, so...
0:46:34 > 0:46:36I don't even know what duck egg blue is...
0:46:36 > 0:46:38You do.
0:46:38 > 0:46:43- Duck egg blue.- How many times have I showed you the colour?- Yes.
0:46:45 > 0:46:49It's a bit different when you think about a print cos in a printer, you just go,
0:46:49 > 0:46:51bold, Microsoft word, this bold, that bold
0:46:51 > 0:46:54but on a printing press you've got to think about these things.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57So, where it's a str... It's um, it's interesting.
0:46:57 > 0:47:01I don't think I've ever seen you so into something, or focused on something.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Especially when it comes to the wedding.
0:47:06 > 0:47:11East, I need Sussex, we just need an X.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14I think this is the X.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17Yeah. Yeah. Sussex.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20- Is that it?- So, there's East Sussex and then we need 25th of the 8th 2019.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25Ta.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56See both of you kind of understand the structure quite quickly.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59- It all makes sense to you, doesn't it?- Yeah, it does.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02It is working it out but that's when you get the hang of it,
0:48:02 > 0:48:05- it's not too bad. - Yeah, OK.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09See... I then T, I, then I need a T.
0:48:22 > 0:48:27What me have you can't take from...
0:48:36 > 0:48:38What's that say?
0:48:39 > 0:48:41- It might be a bit tight but... - Tight on space.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43Yeah, I think it's going to work, yeah.
0:48:43 > 0:48:46That's really good. I'm happy with that.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Every dyslexic person is different but for me,
0:48:56 > 0:48:59if I were going to think about a word, I have to close my eyes
0:48:59 > 0:49:02and then I have to see the word, like there, but doing this,
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I can physically feel the word as well, so it's really helpful.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07That's a really nice help you know, emotional response.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09Yeah, I can like actually feel it, yeah...
0:49:33 > 0:49:38This is good and this is like another step of my journey of
0:49:38 > 0:49:40having a relationship with words.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47I'm very proud of myself that I've been able to do it.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51To add emphasis to her poem, Lorna has decided to replace the I,
0:49:51 > 0:49:55in identity, with an upturned exclamation mark.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58I'll just have it on identity I think.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02Just to make that sort of individual...
0:50:02 > 0:50:03..but in a subtle way.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06- Very understated way, yeah.- Cos I am very subtle.- Yeah, no. I can see that!
0:50:06 > 0:50:09That's lovely. I think that's a really nice touch.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13It's all working out. Do you know what that is? Good design.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15- Good teacher.- Thank you.
0:50:16 > 0:50:20Having finished setting their type, it's time for all
0:50:20 > 0:50:24the students to begin locking them into a frame, ready for printing.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26This is known as building the form.
0:50:28 > 0:50:34To do this, drop a metal frame, known as a chase, over your type.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37Now you need to consider the composition of your print.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40Where do you want your word on the paper?
0:50:40 > 0:50:44If you like your word on the top left of your print,
0:50:44 > 0:50:46move it to the bottom left of the chase,
0:50:46 > 0:50:50always remembering that printing works the wrong way round.
0:50:51 > 0:50:55You then need to fill in all the empty space around the work,
0:50:55 > 0:50:57with blocks of lead.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59These are known as furniture.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07Next up, you need to lock up your form
0:51:07 > 0:51:10by finding space for some coins.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14These are blocks that, when tightened,
0:51:14 > 0:51:17expand to hold everything together.
0:51:19 > 0:51:23To finish, take a heavy block of wood, known as a plainer
0:51:23 > 0:51:26and gently hit the locked-in type to ensure the letters
0:51:26 > 0:51:30and the leads are nice and level.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32Now you're ready for printing.
0:51:35 > 0:51:37Give that a squeeze.
0:51:37 > 0:51:38Patience, my dear.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41- Doing my head in this is. God's sake!- Tighten that one.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43So, if you do that, it pushes this out a fraction.
0:51:43 > 0:51:45I don't think I've got a lot of patience.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47Clearly not! Then go back to this.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Stop.
0:51:51 > 0:51:52Back to this.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54So, you have to be patient.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56You can't not be patient with this.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58There is no rush.
0:52:00 > 0:52:01Before printing on card,
0:52:01 > 0:52:06the students must first do a test print on paper, known as a proof,
0:52:06 > 0:52:11to make sure they're happy with the design and the spacing of the words.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13- Moment of truth?- OK. Go.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15Walk along with it. Let it run through your fingers.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19You'll feel the impression there, right to the end and you'll,
0:52:19 > 0:52:24you'll bounce off the springs. Keep going. OK, lift this up.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26So, first proof.
0:52:26 > 0:52:27I like this part here and here and here.
0:52:27 > 0:52:31It's lovely. Really nice and I like the... I do like the bits missing.
0:52:31 > 0:52:32I love the wood type.
0:52:32 > 0:52:33Yeah, the wood type's great.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36The only thing that jumps out to me, is that the Y is quite a long
0:52:36 > 0:52:38way away on the today, from everything else.
0:52:38 > 0:52:41- Yes, it needs... - So, it needs a bit of refinement.
0:52:41 > 0:52:46With final tweaks made, there's just one job remaining...
0:52:46 > 0:52:47Why are you laughing at me?
0:52:49 > 0:52:51..to print their final work.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53Ugh, excited, yeah.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55- We're going to do a good print, OK? - Pucka!
0:52:55 > 0:52:58- Yeah? All right?- Excited.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01Uh-huh, uh-huh.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08That's brilliant. Yeah, I like, yeah. That's good.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10- Thank you so much. I'm so happy with that.- S'gorgeous.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Yeah, I'm absolutely speechless cos I'm that happy.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15How about that? That is a miracle.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18That is a miracle, I agree.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25I'm feeling really excited.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28Obviously made me think about my wedding loads more
0:53:28 > 0:53:31- and it's been really nice building this together, hasn't it?- Yeah.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34From scratch, cos we've done all of it from scratch.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45I'm used to doing something very sort of staid
0:53:45 > 0:53:48and maybe a little bit fixed and it's been lovely to have some
0:53:48 > 0:53:51freedom and allow the juices to flow a bit.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01I'm really, really, really, really chuffed with it.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04It's come out better than I could have expected.
0:54:04 > 0:54:08It's like a real tribute to my dad and wherever he is now, well,
0:54:08 > 0:54:11I hope he's up there in heaven, he'll be smiling at me,
0:54:11 > 0:54:14thinking, "Wow, I'm proud of you, daughter."
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Right, so how do you all feel? Cos I'm ecstatic!
0:54:26 > 0:54:30In Bamburgh, the students have finished hooking their seat cushions.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34I just think they're absolutely fabulous.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Just hold them up, let me look at them.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38That's absolutely gorgeous.
0:54:38 > 0:54:39You can hear it barking.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51I'm really happy with it, actually.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53Yeah, loving the little dog.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57It's quite Art Deco, that.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Ah, I'm very pleased you said that.
0:55:08 > 0:55:11Right, come on then, let's see yours, Indra.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14- That's amazing. - Really nice.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23- Oh, look at that! - Wow.- Once in a blue moon.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25That's beautiful.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32You would know that it was meant to be
0:55:32 > 0:55:34Lindesfarm Castle by the shape of it.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36Right, yeah, good.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39- Yay, that's wonderful. - It's fantastic
0:55:39 > 0:55:41- Very nice.- Thank you. - It's brilliant.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50I wouldn't have imagined a farmer to do something so beautiful
0:55:50 > 0:55:52and artistic as that.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54Woo!
0:56:01 > 0:56:05- Very good. Well done.- Thank you.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08- It's weird how different they look out of the frame, actually.- Mm.
0:56:08 > 0:56:12To transform their designs into seat cushions, the students simply
0:56:12 > 0:56:18remove their hessian from the hoop, cut away the excess, then fold the
0:56:18 > 0:56:25raw edge over and hem the overlap, onto the back of the hessian.
0:56:28 > 0:56:33Finally, they stich on a piece of fabric for the backing,
0:56:33 > 0:56:35ready for it to go on a chair.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55With room for one more, Indra's son,
0:56:55 > 0:57:00Olly has come to see what his mum's been busy making.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Mummy made something, especially for Olly! Look!
0:57:04 > 0:57:07- What is this? - This is all feathers.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09I made them all for you.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12Do you know which bird these are from?
0:57:14 > 0:57:15Oh, right.
0:57:21 > 0:57:22How delicious!
0:57:22 > 0:57:25Oh, it's a good cup of tea, is this, I'll tell ya.
0:57:25 > 0:57:27- Wey, Yorkshire brew? - Oh, it better be.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28It's really comfy.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30It's a lot better just than a wooden chair, isn't it?
0:57:30 > 0:57:34I've got five more now to make for the dining table!
0:57:34 > 0:57:37I think we should propose a toast to Heather, here.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39Cheers!
0:57:48 > 0:57:52If you've been inspired and want to make any of the things you've
0:57:52 > 0:57:54seen in the show, just visit our website...
0:57:59 > 0:58:03Next week, a new set of students will master the art of cross-stitch...
0:58:05 > 0:58:07This forces you to slow down.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10I have absolutely no sense of time at the moment.
0:58:10 > 0:58:12..and silver jewellery.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14So pleased with that, look at that.
0:58:16 > 0:58:18Quite emotional about it.