Spruce root weaving – master workshop

We invite you to join our special master workshop full of nature – with an unique material – spruce root. Small group, nice atmosphere and a young, local basket maker in Serfenta.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

New Year and a new hope for a workshop realisation! Join us!

When: 17-18 kwietnia 2021
Where: Cieszyn, Srebrna 1, Serfenta
Who leads? Serfenta and the young basket maker Bartłomiej Juroszek, the pupil of Jan Zogata master
The nature of the workshops: professional / acquiring specific skills in hoe to obtain material and weave
For whom: for everyone, any knowledge nor experience in basketry techniques is required, for those who wants to try a new material

Price: PLN 690 but: lower price if you will make an application before 14th of Ferbruary – 649 PLN

We invite you to participate in the next master workshop of Serfenta! It will be a unique meeting with a basket maker who weaves beautiful, unique baskets of  special material spruce roots.

MATERIAL – ROOT WORKSHOP

During the workshop, we will show you a unique expedition and encounter with nature – we will see material of how the master goes into the forest and see how to obtain spruce roots. This is a difficult but very durable material. Acquiring it is labor-intensive – each root must first be “hunted” and then excavated. You also need to have a lot of knowledge and sensitivity to do it without harming the environment.

WHAT WILL WE WEAVE?

During our workshops, we will get know the material, and each participant will create a unique round basket of spruce root with a wooden bottom. It will also be an opportunity to focus on working with your own hands in the SLOW rhythm. Firstly we will prepare the material – cleaning and dividing the roots into smaller parts – the most important part – as well as planing construction elements from ash or hazel wood. Then, each participant, under the supervision of the teacher, will weave her/his own your basket and take it home.

These are unique products that you can not buy in any store. This technique is so time-consuming that we will create a round basket with a diameter of only 16 cm.

Tools

During the workshops, we will use the following tools: knife, pickaxe, chopper, plane, awl, horse-shaving bench. Participation in the workshop provides knowledge and skills sufficient for making after a basket on one’s own.

BASKET MAKERS – BARTŁOMIEJ JUROSZEK and MASTER ZOGATA

Jan Zogata has always woven (see his baskets here), and his teachers were men in the family. They say about him “a humble man with a big heart”. He says that basketry is “like a drug”. All the tools he needs to work, he made by himself. During our workshops with his pupil Bartłomiej Juroszek we are going to know many secrets of his workshop, we will also listen to his interesting stories.

In 2016, it was with Mr. Jan that we ran our first project from the series “Master of Tradition“, when young students learn crafts from experienced teachers.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Saturday:
9:00 – 18:00 (including an hour break for lunch)
Stories about spruce roots and basketry in Poland, a trip to the forest to see how to get roots, not hurting the tree.
Learning how to clean and split roots to be able to weave them.Learning how to split wood warps.
Mounting the warps to the wooden base.
Sunday:

9:00 – 17:00 (including an hour break for lunch)
Building walls on wooden moulds. A show of weaving spruce root basket, made on a wooden base.
Continuation of weaving and finishing the basket.

Price: PLN 690

The price of the master workshop includes participation in 15-hour workshop, pedagogy support of the instructor from Serfenta, access to tools and pre-prepared material (roots, branches, wooden bottoms, moulds), as well as coffee, tea, and small refreshments.

The number of places is limited – we decided the group will be small also because of COV-19 regulations.

We are waiting for applications until February 14th, 2021 at: biuro@serfenta.pl. It is obligatory to pay the advance payment to the account: 02 1020 1390 0000 6102 0465 5496 in the amount of PLN 200 until this date.