craft your own adventure
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craft your own adventure ✯✯✯
What is Craft Abroad?
Craft Abroad provides travel adventures organized around craft and art workshops. Using our connections with master craftspeople and artisans around the world, we bring you into their studios for engaged workshops in traditional craft techniques taught by established masters.
Our workshops prioritize community engagement, cultural preservation, and global connections.
Upcoming Workshops
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Focusing on enameling, metal-forming, chasing, and repoussé, this group of specialized workshops provides you the opportunity to learn from skilled traditional and contemporary craftspeople in their home studios and Buddhist temples located in Thailand’s picturesque north.
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Travel from Thailand’s vibrant capital city to the scenic north, stopping at breath-taking ancient ruins along the way. This trip revolves around two workshops: The first working with indigenous masters in Sukhothai to learn metalsmithing techniques focused on fine silver-weaving, pattern-making, and enameling; The second is a two-day ceramics workshop at a Lampang pottery studio working with Engobe colored slip.Please join us for this exciting and unique opportunity to learn and make with Thai traditional metalsmiths!
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Focusing on metal-forming, chasing, and repoussé, and weaving, this group of specialized workshops provides you the opportunity to learn from skilled traditional and contemporary craftspeople in their home studios and Buddhist temples located in Thailand’s picturesque north. Thai craftspeople have perfected the art of silversmithing, and metalwork over numerous generations, and our program connects you with living masters while exploring the history and heritage of these culturally and religiously important practices.