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WORKSHOPS 2020 – plans for the New Year

In 2020, we have for you everything that you liked the most in the previous year – and even more!

WORKSHOPS IN YOUR PLACE

Last year, we expanded our group of instructors who are ready to come to you and teach you how to weave! Winter holidays, spring workshops, Easter baskets, weaving from willow and straw – that’s what we can offer you now all over Poland and not only! Do you want to have a basketry workshop? Write us! We are ready to come with material, tools and a story about basketry!

Short workshops – from 3 hours
Long workshops – 1 or two days

MASTER WORKSHOPS 2020

We have for you 3 proposals for the master workshop 2020, which you know from previous years. We will focus on unusual, uncommon materials and invite our exceptional masters to Cieszyn, to the new headquarters of Serfenta.

1. STRAW
6 hours of weaving together with fragrant straw and learning a special technique of working with this natural material – sewing technique of inner bark and willow. We will weave straw bowls, and we will use the tools that are created in our workshop – specially designed basketry needles. We will show you basketry in the context of good design, the use of natural materials in the spirit of zero waste, modern craftsmanship. We will also focus on the value of human hands and tell you about the craft. The workshop will be conducted by our master Paulina Adamska, who learned her skills from master Zoja Majstrowicz.

It is no accident that we chose the date just before Women’s Day – we invite you to make a present for yourself or someone and spend a relaxing time in Cieszyn!

March 7, 2020, Cieszyn, Srebrna 1
PRICE: 250 PLN / person

2. CATTAIL (BULRUSH)
This workshop will be conducted by the master Stefania Suchora (aged 80) and us. She is one of the leading basket makers working with cattail (bulrush) in Poland. She has been practicing this traditional profession virtually forever. She mows and prepares the material and weaves using wooden forms.

To weave we use the part of the plant that is under water. The last craftsmen cut it by hand in ponds and dry it all winter. Cattail has a beautiful honey color and is waterproof. This Polish material is a great alternative to foreign seagrass or hyacinth braids, which you find, e.g. at IKEA. During our workshops we will know the material, and each participant will create his own tray and bag of cattail. It will also be an opportunity to focus on the work of your own hands and create unique objects in the rhythm of SLOW.

May 30-31, Cieszyn, Srebrna
PROMOTIONAL PRICE until March 1: 649 PLN
PRICE from March 1: 690 PLN

3. SPRUCE ROOT
This is a unique material, obtained in an ecological and environmentally friendly way, excavated by hand. A young master Bartłomiej Juroszek will lead the workshop with us. For two days, each participant will weave her/his own basket from spruce roots on a wooden mould. We will also visit the workshop of master Jan Zogata and talk with him about his work and many years of experience. Meeting with masters, as well as the touch and smell of this natural, material are two days filled with crafts. When the hands are working – the head rests.

3-4 October 2020, Cieszyn
PROMOTIONAL PRICE until August 1: 649 PLN
PRICE from August 1: 690 PLN

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