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Basketry workshops: A straw bread basket

A straw bread basket – craft experience for the first time

We invite you to a basketry craft experience in Serfenta. Make a BOWL/ Bread BASKET OF STRAW with us, it’s 100% natural and ecological, matching their style to any interior, it’s personal and unique.Is it the first time with basketry for you? No worries! We are experienced with workshops “fot the first time” we are sure you are going to have fun and love this! It can be a workshop for you and your friends.

·       When the hands are working, the head is resting – this is how our workshops look like. During 5 hours of weaving together with fragrant straw and hancrafted willow stripes, you will learn a special Polish technique of working with this natural material – a sewing technique.

·       You will use tools that are made in the locksmith’s workshop – weaving needles designed by us. The tool and a sheaf of prepared straw is included in the price od the workshop. You can buy it after workshop and continue the craft at home!

·       We invite adults and youth fom 12 years of age. It can be also a family workshop

THE WORKSHOP IS LEAD BY:

Our master Paulina Adamska! She learned how to weave a straw basket from her masters Jadwiga i Krzysztof Ciemieniewicz, from Podlasie region. In love with basketry for years, a source of ideas and a friend of masters, and above all – a talented basket maker, a specialist of willow, straw and other materials. A graduate of the University of Folk Artistic Craft and a craft instructor. You must meet her personally.

OUR OFFER:

·       A 5-hour workshop for maximum 5 person and min 1 person

·       A story about basketry combined with a presentation of objects and materials, 

·       Relax and nature

·       A meeting with traditional Polish basketry and the values it represents, a meeting with traditional Polish culture in a modern way

·       Our own materials and tools

·       Professional handicraft instructors

Price: PLN 3900 net/gross / 950 EUR*

Counted with the actual currency

If you’d like to get some more details or place an order – call or write us!

We  will answer all your questions:

biuro@serfenta.pl

tel.: +48 507 933 191

Professions

Basket-Maker

Business Area

Canework - Basketry - Wickerwork

Dates

Hours: 5

Flexible dates

Location

Serfenta
Srebrna 1
Cieszyn
Poland
Serfenta
Srebrna 1
Cieszyn
Poland

Link

https://sklep.serfenta...

Proposed by

The Serfenta Association

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