ABOUT US

Jaunpils Craft House is a place where children and schoolchildren can learn about Latvian traditions – from sheep shearing to weaving in a special weaving workshop for children.

Visitors to the Craft House are offered a guided tour “From the sheep’s back to the finished costume”. The weavers’ workshop has 18 looms of all types. They are used to make fabrics in various techniques such as circular, trinit, drill, plain, weft-patterned, rose, satin, etc. We demonstrate the weaving of the Zemgale flowered brown cloth with the pulling device. P.Viļumsons’ semi-automatic loom “Lielupes vlņi” is in operation.

Jaunpils Craft House has been awarded the “Latvian Heritage” cultural label in the Rural Traveller competition.

OFFER

We offer excursions and workshops for pupils from 1st to 12th grade.

Pupils are offered the opportunity to learn skills in weaving striped cloth. We talk about shearing sheep and processing wool to finished fabric. We show a film about dyeing yarn with natural dyes, made by the association “Dzīpars” as part of the KKF project. We introduce the old tools – what they were and what we still use today. In the workshops, we offer friendship bracelet weaving in a circle and wool felting.

In addition, there is a ceramics workshop, where we offer a creative lesson in ceramics.

Guided tours are available in Latvian and Russian. Duration 40 min. Workshop 1 h.

PRICES

• Excursion – 3,00 EUR/person.
• Creative workshop – 3,00 EUR/person.
• Creative workshop in ceramics – 3,00 EUR/person.

Photos from the archive of the Craft House.