Tuesday 13th December 2011
10pm-1.30pm
GalGael Trust, Govan
(meet at GCHT, 54 Bell St, Glasgow)
A hands-on workshop in association with The GalGael Trust, learning the skills needed to create a traditional Gaelic longboat.
The Birlinn, the traditional Gaelic longboat, would once have provided the main form of transport in the hilly regions of the Scottish west coast. As far back 1000 years ago they linked settlements to each other and beyond to the coasts of Ireland and the Isle of Man.
The GalGael Trust aims to reconnect people to their past by learning traditional crafts.
We invite you to learn the story of the Berlinn and to see how they were built using the clinker construction method.
You will be instructed in steam bending timber frames and you will learn how to hand rivet copper nails and roves alongside craftsmen working on two traditional boats at The GalGael Trust.
To book your place for this event, please contact GCHT by calling 0141 552 1331 or by emailing info@glasgowheritage.org.uk
