Open today until 4:30 p.m.
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Monday
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Tuesday
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Wednesday
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Thursday
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Friday
Closed
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Saturday
Closed
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Sunday
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
During the summer, brickmakers mold and dry thousands of bricks. In the autumn, the bricks bake in a giant wood-fired oven. Keep an eye out for bricklayers using these bricks in all sorts of projects around town.
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DIY-ers & Makers Itinerary
See the time before power tools and meet our world-class artisans in the Historic Trades. Must see for DIY and makers of all ages!
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A Gown in a Day
Visit with the Mantua-makers at the Margaret Hunter Shop throughout the day to track their progress as they create a gown from start to finish in an eighteenth-century workday.
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Beginner Workshop: Tailor
Simple materials and skills produced a broad range of useful buttons and a very large industry in the 18th century. Join the Tailors and make two types of thread-covered buttons.
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Family Workshop: Joiner
Craftspeople have used math to create works of art. With a simple straight edge and compass, we will demonstrate exercises used to create simple geometric forms.
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Historic Trades
Discover craftsmanship in more than 20 trades, where modern-day practitioners use 18th-century tools and techniques to apprentice in — and eventually master — blacksmithing, woodworking or gunsmithing, just to name a few.
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