“Make me something beautiful…”
by Angus, 7 June, 2019, 0 comments
Ever since neolithic times humans have been making beads. Gareth Riseborough is copying the methods that stone age man (and woman!) would have used to make beautiful jewellery. By studying archeological remains and by experimenting with what works he has shown that you can use stones from your woodland, or from a beach, to create fashionable ornaments.
At the 2019 Bushcraft Show in Derbyshire Gareth showed me how he makes beads from Kimmeridge Shale which he found in Dorset on the Jurassic coastline. Read more...
