Traditional Arts and Crafts

Every year the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum offers classes and workshops in a wide range of traditional arts and crafts. If you would like to learn a new craft or make more of your skills, you simply have to decide which course interests you and send the booking form back to us.

Typical courses offered include:

  • Watercolours              
  • White Embroidery     
  • Straw work   
  • Beading                    
  • Uilleann Pipe Tiono’l
  • Needle Tapestry
  • Natural Dyeing 
  • Green Wood Turning 
  • Tiffany Glass
  • Spinning
  • Weaving 
  • Crochet and Tatting     
  • Willow Weaving – Living willow sculpture, basket making, mummers masks

Where possible, items from the Museum’s collections are used as a basis for all the workshops.

If you have a group of 6 or more people, we may be able to organise some of the courses at a date and time that best suits you.