Lowther Castle - Let's Get Creative!







As we had walked around Lowther Castle, we noticed symbols used by the Lowther Family - such as a crown, a dragon, the colour yellow.....
Yellow Earl?...... 

We wondered why?  What was the significance?

Let's find out.......






Lowther Family symbols and how and where they have been used in the restoration of the
Castle- they can be seen on gates, glass doors and
fabulous metal fire pit in the courtyard.












Lowther Coat of Arms in exhibition
 
The Lowther Coat of Arms from the exhibition.

This shows the white dragon at the top

A knight's helmet

Two white horses

six black circles - called annulets - on a yellow shield

We shall be looking in more details at Lowther and Whitehaven's Coats of Arms but our activity this afternoon involved exploring mark making and printing with different objects - sponges, potato prints, stamping, pieces of card and even our hands and fingers!

Castle under construction!

We were here......

exploring colour application and scraping off

 It was all about experimenting and see what types of marks we could make.....great fun!




..........we even had time to start to print a shield similar to the Lowther Shield and we found that the cardboard cones left over from commercial weaving make perfect printed circles for our shields! A busy few hours...

More to follow............

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