Šiauliai Tourism Information Centre

WORKSHOP “SMILGUMI”

Crafts

In the splinter weaving workshop “Smilgumi” you can get acquainted with one of the oldest crafts – weaving with pine, linden, aspen and black alder wood splinters. In the workshop, you can watch basket weaving demonstrations, as well as participate in a master class and weave your own basket. Visitors can buy various baskets for mushrooms, onions, garlic here, as well as household boxes, firewood baskets and bags. The workshop is also the only one in Latvia that offers splinter baskets with inscriptions, drawings and natural colours. 

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Latvia

Historic land

Semigallia

Crafts

Craftsmen

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