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Lowestoft Folk taps its way into the Heritage Open Day

September 10, 2018 by Candida Wingate

As part of the national Heritage Open Day programme, Lowestoft Folk teamed up with Lowestoft Museum, and ran a creative workshop and story telling event – in which the Cabinet of Curiosity took centre stage.

Inspired by the beautiful tap work created by shoemaker, Harry Peck, artist Caitlin Howells invited visitors to make their own tap work mats. This involved hammering tiny pins into cork mats and then winding coloured silk threads around the nails to create a pattern.

Meanwhile, story teller Liam Carroll wheeled the Cabinet of Curiosity outside the Museum and invited passers-by to explore the items concealed within the gold leaf-lined drawers. After telling them some of the stories behind the exhibits, people were then encouraged to go and find out more for themselves inside the Museum.

The Museum is in the Nicholas Everitt park, which is itself a popular location for tourists and local residents, many of whom return regularly to admire the gardens and watch the boats on Oulton Broads.

It turns out, however, that they don’t always visit all the attractions. As one visitor told us, “I’ve been to this Park dozens of times over the years, but I’ve never been inside the Museum. Now I’ve seen this (the Cabinet) I’m going to go inside and see what else is there.”

A young girl is laughing. In front of her are the tools she has been using to make a tap work mat
A table with coloured pens and silk threads and four young people seated around, making tap work mats
A group of adults and children watch as a story teller opens a drawer in the Cabinet of Curiosity

Participants at a tap work creative session
On the table is a photograph of a pair of shoes with intricate tap work on the soles, and on either side there are examples of tap work mats, some finished and others just being started by workshop participants
A mother watches as her daughter hammers in small nails to make a tap work pattern

A young girl is concentrating on winding a silk thread round a pattern made from small nails
A young girl holding a small round mat on which she has created a heart-shaped pattern in tap work using small pins and silk threads
A young girl is weaving coloured threads through a pattern of small nails pushed into a cork mat

 

 

 

 

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