2014 classes and shows
T & C Latané
Updated: May 22, 2015
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Tour
June 5-7 Fresh Art spring studio tour. Come see us and our latest work in our shop in Pepin. http://freshart.org/sites.php
Demo
June 13, Castlerock Museum Gala, Alma, WI Tom will demonstrate forging techniques. http://www.castlerockmuseum.com/main/events.php
Class
July 8-10, North House Folk School, Grand Marais MN, Tom is teaching a class in making a Nordic Ring Handle Door Latch or Door Knocker http://www.northhouse.org/courses/courses/course.cfm/cid/854
Tom will demonstrate during the Timber Frame Gathering at North House on July 11.
Event
July 16 Laurapalooza, Brookings, SD Kitty will attend the Laura Ingalls Wilder conference. http://beyondlittlehouse.com/laurapalooza-2015/
Demo
July 18 Stockholm Art Fair http://www.stockholmartfair.org/ Come see Kitty at the fair or visit Tom in the shop in Pepin.
Demo
July 24-25, Nordic Fest, Decorah, Iowa http://www.nordicfest.com/site/norwegian-fine-art-and-craft.html Tom will demonstrate
forging of traditional Norwegian ironware
Class
August 17-21 Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, PA http://www.touchstonecrafts.org/Blacksmithing
MAKE AN IMPACT WITH YOUR HAMMER - Forging distinctive hammer heads
Students will forge hammer bodies from wrought iron or mild steel, and then weld on and harden steel faces and peens.
Anyone wishing to do the decorative works without the challenge of forge welding may bring tool steel (which can be annealed)
and forge one-piece hammers. Students may also bring hammers made earlier or flea market finds to rework. The softer
midsections of the hammers will be filed and chased to create uniquely decorated hammers. Tools needed for punching
and drifting eyes and chasing designs can be made in class.
http://www.touchstonecrafts.org/Blacksmithing
Event or Demo?
Sept. 12, 13 Laura Ingalls Wilder Days, Pepin WI http://www.lauradays.org/ Tom and Kitty can be found in the Traditional
Crafts Demonstration Area, Tom working at the forge and Kitty at the tinners bench.
Demonstration and Show?
Sept. 21-25 River Rendezvous, Pond Dakota Mission Park, Bloomington, MN https://www.bloomingtonmn.gov/river-rendezvous
Tom and Kitty will demonstrate metalworking to school children in this living history encampment. The event is open to
the public on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 4-8:30. The evening demonstrations will be by candlelight
Demonstration
Sept. 27 Castlerock Museum, Alma, WI http://www.castlerockmuseum.com/main/events.php Forest to Furniture presentation.
Tom will demonstrate early woodworking techniques with Derek Olson and Paul Nyborg.
Demonstration and Tour
Oct. 2-4 Freshart Fall Studio Tour http://freshart.org/sites.php Come see ongoing demonstrations in the blacksmith
shop and shop for hand crafted Christmas gifts.
Class
Oct. 9-11 Tunnel Mill, Spring Valley, MN. Tom's coffee grinder class continues. http://www.tunnelmillcrafts.com/Calendar/Calendar.htm
Demonstration
Nov. 7-8 Salt Fork Craftsmen Blacksmithing conference, Oklahoma. http://www.saltforkcraftsmen.org/Calendar.shtm Tom will be
the conference demonstrator.
Demonstration
Dec. 4- 6 Hometown Holiday, Pepin, WI. Join us for some Holiday festivities in our shop, in the Village of Pepin,
and in the communities all around Lake Pepin.
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Class
Tom Latane'
Wire Inlay In Steel at Tunnel Mill
April 11th, 12th and13th, 2014
Students will start by forging a simple article to be decorated with wire inlay - a medieval key or Viking style sword hilt.
While the scale is being pickled from the forging, tools will be forged for chasing the grooves that receive the wire.
Demonstrations will show:
-Flush wire inlay
-Raised wire inlay
-Twisted wire inlay
-Inlaying of dots
After practicing a bit on scrap steel students will decorate their forgings.
Class
Kitty Latane'
Beginning Tinwork at Tunnel Mill
Friday, April 11th, 2014
Pioneers used tinware because it was inexpensive and portable, and settlers liked it because it was shiny and clean
looking.
In this class students will have the opportunity to make a variety of traditional items such as cups,
candleholders and cookie cutters using tinplate shaped with stakes and mallets.
Skills learned include cutting a pattern, wiring an edge, setting down a seam and soldering.
Class cost: $85.00. Limit of 10 students. Class 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Please bring a sack lunch.
Materials fee: $30.00.
Extra tin will be available.
Class
Punched Tin Lantern Class at Tunnel Mill
Kitty Latane'
April 12 & 13th, 2014 9:00 - 5:00
Hosted by John & Carol Adams
Make a Punched Tin Lantern..Lanterns of this design are sometimes called "candle carriers."
They were used to give light outside while protecting the candle from the wind.. This style lantern was used in many countries, and appears in nautical
museums as well as farm museums.
Students will start with a flat sheet of tinplate, trace and cut out a pattern, punch holes in a decorative design, bend and assemble pieces to make a
traditional "barn" lantern. (lantern measures approximately 12" tall by 6" diameter.)
Students need to bring leather work gloves. Tools will be provided, however students are welcome to bring their own shears, mallets, etc if you wish.
You will each leave with a tin lantern.
Material cost is $25.00 and class fee is $150.00, for this 2-day class. Make checks payable to Tunnel Mill Crafts.
Check out Tom & Kitty Latane's website, www.spaco.org/latane/TCLatane.htm
Class
A Touch of Tin
Cookie Cutters: Cut Shape Punch Decorate and Make Them
Kitty Latane'
Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
It's the little things - like a tasty, homemade cookie - that make life so sweet. It's the
tools you use to make those cookies that become cherished keepsakes, holding countless
tasty memories.
In this full-day class, learn to make your own one-of-a-kind tin cookie
cutters.
In the morning, students will learn to cut, shape, and punch simple decorations in
preparation for making their own cookie cutters in the afternoon.
Catherine Latane' has
worked with tin for over 30 years and her cookie cutters have been displayed on the
White House Christmas tree.
Materials: $15
Ages 12+
This class is part of the North House Folk School's "Spring Gathering" which will be held at Hollow Golf Course, W12166 820th Ave, River Falls,
WI 54022
Pre-registration is required!
** Questions? Please call 218-387-9762 or info@northhouse.org
Demonstration
Tom is demonstrating for the Indiana Blacksmiths June 6-8 in Tipton, IN.
http://www.indianablacksmithing.org/
Demonstration
The ABANA conference is Aug. 13-16 in Harrington, DE
Tom will be making a coffee mill with the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths.
http://abana.org/Conferences/2014/ConferenceDemonstrators.shtml
Class
Tom will be conducting a class in "Distinctive Decorative Details"
which involves forging, chasing and inlay
Touchstone Center for Crafts Aug. 17-23 in Farmington, PA.
http://touchstonecrafts.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1742088
Demonstration and Show
Laura Ingalls Wilder Days
Pepin, Wisconsin. Sept. 13, 14, 2014
This is our hometown festival which celebrates all things Laura Ingalls Wilder.
For us it is a reunion of a wonderful "family" of fine traditional craftspeople.
Contact Laura Ingalls Wilder Days
Class
Hand Forged Coffee Mill
Tunnel Mill, October 17, 18 and 19, 2014
This class will be the first of three sessions of instruction covering the construction of a
coffee mill similar to the one the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths will make at the
2014 ABANA conference. In the first session the students will forge the conical steel burrs
and start filing the teeth (which will be completed at home). The rest of the session
will be spent forming the upper hopper for receiving the beans and the burr housing.
These forms will be constructed out of heavy sheet brazed in the forge.
Brackets to support the hopper and center the crank shaft will be forged and riveted
to the vessel.
In the second session the steel burrs will be case hardened and the drawer for the grounds will
be formed along with its housing. The lower support for the central shaft will be forged along
with the parts for adjusting the coarseness of the grind. Decorative embellishments will be
demonstrated including swaging moldings, chasing the knob, and raising beads in the sheet metal
surface with a fine fuller.
The last session will cover forging the columns that join the parts , the feet , and the crank .
The columns may be round, square, hexagonal, or octagonal,
twisted or straight. Assembly will be with threaded tenons and nuts, permanently peined tenons and wedges.
An inspirational page from the Dover book, "Decorative Antique Ironwork"
Dates for the second and third classes, as well as costs and other details will be provided shortly.
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