Bil Bas

We are hosting the yearly Fun Palaces event, this year, because the library is closed for refurbishment. Saturday, 3rd October, 2026, from noon until 4pm.

We’ll have lots of STEAM activities suitable for all the family. Badge making, 3D-printing, juggling, chess, maths games and more! We will be in Lancaster Makerspace, BayShare and a big blue gazebo, outside Harpers Mill on the White Cross Business Park in central Lancaster. The Dance Hub Cafe will be open for refreshments.

Free parking,…

Thanks to the six brave souls that took on our second Secret Santa event, in 2025.

We now have a lot of looms at LAMM. The latest two where donated from 3RC, a “community” charity shop in Carnforth. The first one, a 24″ (600mm) wide rigid heddle loom, allows us to make realistic sizes of fabric, rather than just scarves (a limitation of our small old loom).

24″ Rigid Heddle Loom

Quite coincidentally, they also received a donation of an old 4-shaft table loom, in surprisingly good working condition, which they decided would be best in our care.

Loom handover, from 3RC…

On this Easter Saturday, we joined the Friends of Lancaster Library (FoLL) to do a workshop with pyrography! Lots of people, young and old, managed to draw a Easter/spring based design onto a wooden spoon.

Even after we ran out of wooden spoons, we still had some wooden coasters for art!

The pyrography pens were kindly provided by FoLL.

We had our first hand-made Secret Santa at the end of last year. A wide variety of techniques and materials were used to make intriguing gifts! I think everyone got something very unexpected, but hopefully also something to be loved for a long time to come.

Beautiful cloth bag, chocolate truffles in map tin, screen-printed bird and solar-powered spinning mirror contraption. Carved yew bowl 3D-printed Kaplan turbine

Thanks for the inspiration from the Good Things Collective,…

We are starting the new year with several sessions that will offer a solid introduction to 3D printing. Each will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday afternoons in January (5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th). They will be hosted at the Makerspace and will consist of small groups of 4 learners (and any parents or guardians that need to accompany younger makers)

Enthusiasts of all ages will be receiving 3D printers as a festive gift and will want to learn how to use it. Or you may have received one in…