The 15th annual International Preservation Trades Workshop
IPTW 2011 - "Hands on Heritage: Trades, Knowledge, Community"
Each year the IPTW, sponsored by the Preservation Trades Network (PTN), draws together hundreds of the best preservation trades practitioners, and others interested in the preservation and traditional trades, showcasing their work through trade skills demonstrations, exhibits and lectures. Tradespeople from the US and abroad will share the techniques, tools, materials and technologies of crafts and trades ranging from masonry restoration, slate, wood shingle and metal roofing, decorative painting, preservation carpentry, timber framing, and blacksmithing, to plaster restoration, stained glass repair and much more.