ABOUT US

Tukums Weavers’ Workshop is a place for hard-working and creative people.

The workshop has several dozen looms, where both the masters of applied arts of the Folk Applied Art Studio “Durbe” and those who are learning weaving skills work.

The exhibition hall regularly displays creative works by masters, created in long-forgotten and also brand new and modern technologies, as well as works of applied art from museum collections.

The weavers’ workshop offers individual and group training, organising courses and workshops, as well as continuing education courses in various textile techniques. In addition to loom weaving, you can learn how to weave a three-strand shawl on a cardboard backing, garter weaving, and the little-forgotten technique of knitting.

EXHIBITIONS

TLMS “Durbe” exhibition “My Folk Costume

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From 9 June to 23 November, the Tukums Weavers’ Workshop will host the exhibition “My Folk Costume” of TLMS “Durbe” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia. The exhibition features 13 sets of national costumes from Tukums, Engure, Jaunpils and Kandava regions, which were created as a result of ethnographic research and careful work for the Tukums Museum collection.

The components of the national costumes were made over a period of 35 years during research in the collections of the Latvian National History Museum, the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia and other museums. Information was also obtained from private sources, magazines, books and fabric samples. The weavers have created a rich collection representing many parishes by painstakingly photographing, drawing, measuring, winding yarn dyes and then weaving imitations – of brunch fabrics, belts, embroidering and sewing shirts, weaving belts and knitting socks.

From wool to cloth”

The interactive exhibition shows the process of making cloth: choosing materials, colours and patterns, threading the fabric on the loom and weaving. Visitors can learn about weaving traditions and work on the loom themselves to learn some of the weaving techniques.

PRICES

Schoolchildren and preschool children: free

Adults: EUR 1.50

Photos from the Tukums Museum archives