Lining & Coach lining course: 12 May 2025

If you are a signwriter looking to broaden your decorative style, lining can be used to embellish your signwriting or to enable you to create authentic designs in keeping with a traditional style of decoration. Painted lines (coach lines) are also used to accentuate the lines, details and curves of vintage vehicles and are an essential part of achieving a show stopping professional result on your restorations.

With decades of experience of restoring traditional fairground rides, vintage transport and living wagons, Joby Carter is a leading expert in lining the traditional way – no masking tape involved.

In this one-day course you’ll discover how to create straight lines using an English coach lining brush and will learn expert practical tips from Joby. Using these brushes is a skill worth learning: it’s the most efficient way of painting a straight line by hand.

These are specialist skills that would typically be passed on through an apprenticeship, but in this one-day course Joby will share his unique industry knowledge, essential if you are planning to use straight lines in your signwriting or need to coach line a vehicle, living wagon or steam engine.

This course will take place in Joby’s brand new workshop in Street, Somerset on 12 May from 10am – 5pm.

More information on the course and what it covers can be found here