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Well, today we are going to be looking at printing and dyeing fabrics.
And as you can see, I am surrounded by some serendipititious materials.
What is it that actually turned you on to tie-dyeing?
Apart from the obvious, that it's very beautiful.
What is it that you got out of it?
Well, today's expert is John Wainwright, and he is a lapidary.
Is that right?
Yes, a lapidary is somebody who works with stone.
For our purpose today, we're working with gemstones.
MANNING: Smashing.
Well, we took a little stroll, didn't we?
- Yes, we did.
- Down to a beach in Lowestoft, where I found how exciting and easy pebble collecting was going to be.
Mmm-hmm.
Now, if we just walk up the beach and find a suitable spot and we'll see what we've collected, shall we?
That's what I am looking forward to.
(CHUCKLING) - Here's a good place.
- Right.
MANNING: Mmm.
WAINWRIGHT: There we are.
MANNING: Oh! Well, if I'm a pretty lazy person, and I like to see things happen fairly quickly without too much hard work, I have read about some sort of polishes.
- Tumble polishes.
- That actually - Tumbling machines, yes.
- That's super.
All right, John, you know I'm going to ask you about jewellery, don't you?
- Yes.
Well, looking at you - (CHUCKLING) - Rather keen.
Um, so - (WAINWRIGHT CHUCKLING) Sorry.
Treading on your toe.
Now, without any help at all, there's a file, there's the material.
Do something, anything.
You're just going to say, "Do something".
Right.
- Anything.
- Do something.
I'll see if I can Well, I can file it.
It's very easy to file.
And then presumably, you can make shapes like that on it.
HUNTLEY: You draw whatever you want to on the top and then you make from it.
MANNING: I can't draw.
HUNTLEY: You can't?
- No.
- Can you cheat?
- Yes! Yes! Very well.
- You can cheat?
Now, if I gave you only an old screwdriver and that file, could you make a dog?
MANNING: Shall I try?
HUNTLEY: Try.
Right.
I'll put my glasses on.
- Which I need to do anything.
- There it is.
Now, uh - About there, I'd say.
- Yes.
MANNING: How's that?
HUNTLEY: Drastic, but it looks all right.
MANNING: Oh, you didn't like the way I went at that?
HUNTLEY: No, that's fine.
MANNING: And then - About there.
- HUNTLEY: Mmm-hmm.
MANNING: He's got little eyes, hasn't he?
Right?
Now The chap's got to have a mouth, hasn't he?
So - Ooh! Yes?
- HUNTLEY: Yeah.
Yeah.
MANNING: It's going to be a very happy, wide-smiling person.
And I think I better give him an ear, so that I can get an idea of shape before I actually I'm sounding awfully knowledgeable, aren't I?
(CHUCKLING) I have no idea what I'm doing at all.
MANNING: And a nose?
Want a nose?
HUNTLEY: Yeah.
MANNING: Uh HUNTLEY: You've almost got one there.
MANNING: You're not supposed to say that.
I'm supposed to Just because it's already sort of looking like it's there.
This is complete creation, this.
And I think I'll MANNING: While you're doing that, David, just Uh, Dennis.
I'm doing well, aren't I?
Um, another point is Is there any other safety rules that one should remember?
Because I should think it would be fairly important, looking at all these tools and things.
Yes.
One tends to forget that you must keep both hands behind the chisel all the time.
- And work outwards?
- Yes, never work towards a hand.
- That's certainly worth remembering.
- Fine.
Well, in the Serendipity book, you'll find that there'll be lists of where to get hold of things and the materials that you need for this, and also an extra little surprise.
Where's it gone?
A-ha! There it is.
Is the fact that this is made out of, uh, plaster of Paris.
And it'll also show you how to make plaster of Paris carvings, which is also quite interesting and useful to know how to do.
Well, thank you very much, Dennis Huntley.
But I'm going to pick your brains for more now, because I think I'm beginning to find a little bit more confidence.
Because when you look at stone and things like that, you think it'll be virtually impossible to work in, - but now I can see that it's not.
- It's quite easy.