Plan Your Visit

Demonstrations

Traditional Craft Demonstrations

The village provides educational and entertaining experiences every day, as visitors are welcome to watch and talk to traditional artisans as they work their craft. Demonstrations vary from broom making to letterpress printing to working with wood, and they change daily. Please see the Canterbury Shaker Village greeter on the day of your visit to learn the daily schedule.

Traditional crafts that are regularly demonstrated in the Village include:

• Broom making
• Printing
• Oval boxmaking
• Poplar weaving and poplarware construction
• Wood turning
• Tinsmithing
• Spinning
• Weaving
• Rug Braiding
• Shaker foodways