Craft Tour Roots of Poland – visit Poland and spend 3 days with Serfenta in the heart of Polish nature and crafts.
Craft Tour is a true adventure. Do you like to experience the foreign country from a true, unussual way? This is the idea – visit us and let us guide you to the Polish culture, tradition, craft and our special region.
We offer 3 days of Craft Tour with Serfenta. We can organise many interesting activities for you in our place. The first day in our workshop with a manual craft experience, the second day in a lovely town, Cieszyn, and the third in the village in the heart of the mountains nearby. This is not only about the craft but also about people, cuisine, wild nature and life in Poland. Let Serfenta guide you to our world.
CT Day 1. Craft experience in Serfenta - a basketry day
Our workshop place in Cieszyn 
Zrób to sam - jak wyplatać, Serfenta
Our main theme will be RELAX - when the hands are working, the head is resting. In our place, Serfenta, we are going to show you our work and a special presentation of our way - how was it going from research to business.
We are going to present natural, plant materials from Polish nature, used for weaving, like wood, straw, cattail, willow, roots, and many others. We will try the basic workshop together - learning by doing is the best! Mainly - we are going to weave with willow, straw or cattail (PL - rogożyna). To touch, to smell, to try, to make an experiment and also mistakes - this is a workshop for people weaving for the first time in their life. We have many years of experiences in teaching craft.
We've got here a unique collection of baskets from Poland and from all over the world. Not only ready products - also tools, materials, moulds. We've got many objects which are not weaving any more. But basketry craft which we present is alive - in our work, in our book, workshops and tales, also in our skills. Discover with us this incredible world of basketry and together we are going to find answers for important questions. How to keep craft alive, how to show it to the modern world? We are going to show you our model of work with basketry craft and our work. Also, our collection of Polish baskets and also baskets from all around the World.
We are going to tell you also about our cooperations and adventures with Japan, South Korea, Norway, Ukraine. We will tell you what is special in our Polish craft and why people from other countries loves is so much. From the experience we know that the most essential thing is - to try, to touch, to smell, to know how and why. This is the true value of craft! Join the world of Serfenta.
CT Day 2. Discovering Cieszyn, the slow, pretty town full of crafters.
Day two is about exploring and meeting the craftsmen. Our sweet, small town Cieszyn is special - we are located on the border with the Czech Republic, a hundred years ago the town was divided between two countries. It is a perfect place for a Craft Tour Roots of Poland. The Serfenta is located on the premises of the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, one of the oldest Museums in Central Europe. We are going to show you the town, our local cafeterias, the workshops of our friend also. We are going to visit the Czech part of the town and try local dishes from Polish and Czech part of the town.
This is an adventure with a touch of nature. Let us show you a true craftsman’s place where you can meet our masters of craft. We are going to take you for a walk to the special places in Cieszyn. Like: Museum of print history in Cieszyn, the riffle maker's place - with the only master in the world who makes riffles from Cieszyn, to the workplace of famous ceramic artisan Bogdan Kosak, and to many other places. We are going to spend the whole day walking, eating, talking with people and enjoying Cieszyn. It's a town with a river Olza and with the mountain's view on the Castle Hill. This is a true relax with the nature and tradition and our local stories. We have many stories to tell about this place and many years of research experiences there.
Riffle Maker Jerzy Wałga 
Town on the border - Cieszyn 
History of printing Museum
CT Day 3. Crafts in the heart of Beskidy Mountains
The region is a Beskidy Mountains when even three countries have their unique influences. We are going to take to the heart of the mountain for a craft trip. This is a village on the south of Poland when our friends, and many craftsmen leave. We are going to show you a beautiful area, and also we will visit the local museum with many craft samples and with a beautiful story about our mountain culture.
The end of the Craft Tour South Poland take place in Serfenta, Cieszyn.
Included:
3 days of activities, basketry workshop - craft experience and presentation in Serfenta, discovering Cieszyn and local craftsmen, local food and drinks, expedition to the village (also transport), visiting local museum, the guidance from Serfenta.
Price: 1960 EUR - th price is calculated for max 4 person in the group.
We are able to help with: an accomodation in Poland, but this is not included in the basic price.
Do not hesitate to contact us!
