All Videos Tagged project (crafthaus) - crafthaus 2024-05-18T16:12:52Z http://crafthaus.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=project&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Hexagonal Pewter Stool, poured into the sand tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2013-01-15:2104389:Video:389247 2013-01-15T21:41:54.309Z Brigitte Martin http://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/brigittemartin <a href="http://crafthaus.ning.com/video/hexagonal-pewter-stool-poured-into-the-sand"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/328442925?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Inspired by a childhood spent on the beaches of Cornwall building castles, boats and tunnels in the sand, I decided to return to my favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a stool using a primitive form of sand-casting. Molten pewter was poured into a sand mould sculpted directly into the beach by hand, and once cooled the sand was dug… <a href="http://crafthaus.ning.com/video/hexagonal-pewter-stool-poured-into-the-sand"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/328442925?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Inspired by a childhood spent on the beaches of Cornwall building castles, boats and tunnels in the sand, I decided to return to my favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a stool using a primitive form of sand-casting. Molten pewter was poured into a sand mould sculpted directly into the beach by hand, and once cooled the sand was dug away to reveal a pewter stool.<br /> <br /> By Max Lamb