Painters Workshop
Focusing on a single trade, we provide a detailed exploration of Elizabethan art and its craft practices. Painters were skilled craftsmen whose work touched almost every corner of Elizabethan life, from cutting edge scientific discovery, and religious devotions to Inn signs in remote villages….
Clothing the Elite
Creating the Elizabethan image involves lots of people engaged in all sorts of activities. From those who grind pigments in order to manufacture period makeup, to laundresses standing knee deep in the stream beating and pummelling linen, our members demonstrate the numerous complex processes that…
Town and Trades
Urban life in all it’s variety allows us to explore a range of trades and crafts typical of the Elizabethan era.Tudor skills, materials and methods come together to create a lively and bustling scene where butter wives rub shoulders with blacksmiths.It is a great…