Drum Making 

Photos taken at drum making workshops, all using local Sussex deer skins, and prepared for drum material through using flint tools.  

Tools are made by Lithic expert Will Attard - you'll find him on Socials @thepointyenduk The Pointy End

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Eva has been making drums since 2017, my teachers were Steven and Renata Ash, and every drum and skin I've worked with since!  You never stop learning with drum making!

Two years ago I asked the universe for guidance in changing how i worked, as I didn't like ordering rawhide for drums from people I dint know, or ordering them from abroad.  Six months later I met Sarah,  she worked on a family run game farm.  We worked together learning from one another and working with slipping fur from local deer to become drums and rattles.  All my deer skin sources are now local, and I know all the hands they have passed through.

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Working with slipping fur yourself really augments your connection to your drum, and deeply to our ancestors, 

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If you fancy making a drum get in touch.  The skins are natural, untreated, straight from the land they lived on.  

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Photography:  some of these images are taken by myself, some are by professional photographer Katie Williams, @apocketofforest