Workshop by Mosaic Art Studio to make a traditional Turkish mosaic lamp from hand-cut stained glass and decorative beads.
Mosaic Art Studio are running a Turkish mosaic lamp workshop at Centrecom Meeting Place on Saturday 7 November, starting at 10:00. It's a morning spent making a traditional lamp from scratch, and you'll leave with one you've put together yourself.
The process is a slow, steady one: you piece together hand-cut stained glass and decorative beads over a zamak metal frame, working from the centre outwards to build up patterns and images. While you work, Turkish instrumental music plays in the background and the hosts serve aromatic tea and rose delight. Each lamp is wired with a UK plug and an energy-efficient LED bulb, and you finish the grouting at home after the piece has dried for two days.
The studio behind it is a social enterprise founded to promote intercultural dialogue through art and socio-cultural experiences from West and Central Asian countries. They describe the lamp as a time-honoured craft of traditional Turkish mosaic art, and the studio has since expanded to Taiwan, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Norway and the United States.
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It's £49 per guest, and the workshop runs at Centrecom Meeting Place, 602 N Row, Milton Keynes MK9 3BJ, on Saturday 7 November from 10:00.
