Basic Flint Knapping Workshop at the Homeplace

Basic Flint Knapping Workshop at the Homeplace

 The Friends of Land Between the Lakes invite you to s tart out the new year learning a new hobby at the Homeplace 1850 Working Farm! Plus, help preserve old time skills that our ancestors had to know to survive. Three workshops will be available during the winter season at the Homeplace. Cost for each session is $25 a person. Space is limited for these affordable workshops so register soon. Workshops will be held in the Homeplace Interpretive Center. Included in the workshop, and only for workshop participants, is a walk around the historic farm during winter.  

All workshops are subject to cancellation for inclement weather or hazardous road conditions.  With the exception of these special workshops, the Homeplace is closed to the public during the winter season.

The workshops include Basic Flint Knapping on Saturday, January 18; 1850s String Quilting on Saturday, January 25; and Beginners Spinning on Saturday, February 8. Full details are below. Please call 270-924-2020 to register or for more information.

Basic Flint Knapping Workshop

Saturday, January 18, 2020

11am – 3pm

$25. Registration and full deposit required. Limited to 6 participants. For more information and to reserve your space, call 270 924-2020. Recommended for ages 12 and up. Bring lunch. Must bring leather gloves and safety glasses. Last day to register is Friday, January 17, 2020

Stone tools were used by all cultures, it is truly a humanity wide skill and art form. The manufacture of stone tools is called flintknapping. The Homeplace invites you to our first flintknapping workshop, taught by Primitive Skills Expert and Homeplace Interpreter, Michael Daniels.  

In this workshop you will learn the basics of lithic reduction, how to turn a raw stone into a usable tool such as an arrowhead, drill, chisel, hand axe or fine blades used to skin game. We will also cover the kinds of ‘knappable’ stone and the history and use of stone tools.  

Participants will receive the basic tools necessary to get started and some raw material to practice with in class and hands on instruction in making your first arrowhead.   The workshop also includes a copy of ‘the’ book on flint knapping,  Flintknapping, The Art of Making Stone Tools.

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