Course Content

The Traditional Arrow Making Workshop is an exciting new workshop running over three days and traces the development of arrows through history from the self arrows of our hunter gatherer ancestors to armour piecing projectiles of the hundred years war and finishing our journey with modern target style arrows. Over the three days we work with the techniques appropriate to each particular design and materials used. Including preparing sawn timber blanks and self arrows made from stems of native shrubs and trees. These species are known to have been used historically for this purpose having excellent qualites for arrow making. On this workshop we discover how our ancestors made arrows to suit their needs of warfare or hunter gather lifestyles.

Material selection, species selection, carpentry techniques, deflection and spining arrows, horn nock inserts, feathers, cutting and preparing feathers, self nocks, primitate glues, medieval glues, modern glues, fletchings, whipping and binding, modern points/piles, medieval bodkins and primitive arrow heads. This workshop is all about the history and techniques and archery evolved to become so sophisticated and successful using different wood designs and materials.

There is a saying that any old bit of wood will make a bow but it takes a lots of effort to make a decent arrow. This workshop hope to address that issue and is a perfect companion course for anyone who has enjoyed our Longbow making workshop

If this course is full please contact us to be placed on a waiting list for cancellations.

Should enough people express an interest we may run extra dates.

Course Dates 2025

• 24 – 27 July 2025