9 & 10 May 2026
Bruxelles – Tour & Taxis Gare Maritime

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Masterclasses and Workshops
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Glass blowing

Jane-Sylvie Van den Bosch

In this one-on-one masterclass you learn how to creat a glass object!

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Pop-up portrait shoot wet plate collodion

Ward Collin en Wouter Elsen

Experience this unique photographic process and have your picture taken!

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Experiment with plant printing

Hawar Textielinstituut

Print a soft and summery scarf from Etamine de Laine with your own pattern of different leaves.

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Come file, hammer, solder.. and take your own ring home!

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Discover the art of traditional Turkish tile painting.

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Kumiko (Japanese woodworking)

Rob Alferink / Picusled

Get acquainted with the Izustu-tsunagi pattern.

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Create a wind spiral

Jeanny Bouwen

Get to know the flexibility of a willow twig and learn how to make a wind spiral.

 

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Book binding

Greet Lembregts, Dries Vera, Mariella Van Der Niepen

Make a booklet, using a medieval long stitch binding.

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Hand weaving

Ingrid De Smul, Els Vande Kerckhove

Start your weaving adventure: Hand weaving on a table loom for beginners.

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Ebru: paper marbling

Demet Unlu Ancion

Learn how to marble on paper, a traditional Turkish art form.

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Romanian embroidery

Ioana Cordu

Learn more about Romanian heritage and learn how to embroider.

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Pottery

Floortje Roetemeijer and Tanja van Schagen

Learn to spin on the potter’s wheel.

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Sharpening the scythe

Kevin Lambeets

Learn how to transform a scythe blade from blunt to razor sharp.

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Kids’ crafting workshop: craft your own walking stick.

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Carve your own spoon

Hausgemacht

Craft your own spoon, spatula or butter knife.

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Learn more about the history of Mexican carmine red and paint a watercolor using traditional pigments.

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Woodturning – make a spinning top!

Robert Piccart & André Vergalle

Learn more about a specific way of woodturning and create a spinning top!

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Learn how to design repeating motifs and patterns.

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Felting with pure wool

Salomé Grdzelischvili

Learn how to felt with pure wool and mild soap!

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Brocade in Gold Leaf

Sandy van Wissen - Academie Beeldende & Audiovisuele Kunsten Anderlecht

Learn how to make a pressed brocade, after a 15th Century example.

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Print your own name card

Maarten Renckens, Stoffel Van den Bergh, Sus Pulmans, en Patrick Goossens

Learn about letterpress and print your name with ink and letters.

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Pysanky

Loeba and Anna Rozak

Decorate a Ukrainian Easter egg using batik technique.

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Tame the blacksmith’s fire and create an iron flower! 

 

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Create a copper relief with your initials or house number. 

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Learn more about the technique and collaborate on making a theater puppet.

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Calligraffiti

Lindsay van Vliet

Create your own calligraffiti artwork.

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Create a sound hole

Vik Vandamme

Learn about violin making and create your own sound hole.

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Lace making

Susanna Van Nes

Learn to work magic with thread and bobbins.

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Create traditional buttons

Monique van Munster

Learn how to make a button with beautiful materials, a simple ring and needle and thread.

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Saxophone repair

Karel Goetghebeur - Adolphe Sax & Cie

Learn about maintaining and repairing your saxophone.

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Learn hurdy-gurdy techniques and make a wooden piece of jewelry.

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Learn hurdy-gurdy techniques and create your own incense burner.

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Make a traditional tub

Kuipersmuseum – Marleen Bonami

Be proud of your own, handmade tub!

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Cut your own wooden mortise pin

Het MOT - Museum voor de Oudere Technieken

Cut your own wooden mortise pin.

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Everyone can cut

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Papierknipkunst

Get started with scissors and paper.

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Continuous

Cinema

Erfgoedcel Brussel, Handmade in Brugge, Bokrijk, ETWIE

Besides our workshops, we show in our cinema how craftmanship can be transferred with the help of audiovisual documentation.

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Crafting Futures – What is craft? Discussion table

Vic Bervoets, Ils Huygens, Viktoria Verhelst, Ophelia Bostyn, Tim Dierckx

Crafting Futures explores how crafts are valued today and how we can harness their full potential, both socially and economically.

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Papermaking

Piet Moerman

Make your own sheet of paper, with or without flower petals.

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Giant loom!

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Participatory weaving for all ages.

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Embroider along!

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Reeds for musettes

Bart Van Troyen

The different stages of making a reed are covered: tube rolling, soldering, sanding and polishing, reed planing, shaping, binding, and finishing

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Recycled Mosaics

Ismaël Bils

Create a mosaic with waste materials and bits of toys.

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Print your own name card

Maarten Renckens, Stoffel Van den Bergh, Sus Pulmans, en Patrick Goossens

Learn about letterpress and print your name with ink and letters.

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Roll up your sleeves and let’s create!

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Cut your own wooden mortise pin

Het MOT - Museum voor de Oudere Technieken

Cut your own wooden mortise pin.

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Crane sawing and edging

Het MOT - Museum voor de Oudere Technieken

Learn how to use axes to make a beam from a log and how to cut planks with a crane saw.

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Everyone can cut

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Papierknipkunst

Get started with scissors and paper.

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Partner: Workshop Intangible Heritage

Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed

Werkplaats Immaterieel Erfgoed is the organization for intangible heritage in Flanders.

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ETWIE

ETWIE

ETWIE is the Center for Industrial Heritage in Flanders (Belgium).

 

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Partner: Erfgoedcel Brussel

Erfgoedcel Brussel

Erfgoedcel Brussel is a point of contact for those who want to get started with Brussels’ versatile tangible and intangible heritage.

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Partner: Texture

Texture, museum of flax and textiles

Museum Texture in Kortrijk tells the story of the linen and flax industry along the River Lys (de Leie).

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FPS Economy – info legal recognition as a craftsman

FOD Economie, K.M.O., Middenstand en Energie – secretariaat Commissie Ambachtslieden

Continuous – info on legal recognition as a craftsman/woman

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Exhibitions & Performances

Crafting Futures – Persconference

Crafting Futures - Ambacht in Beeld Festival

Want to know more about Ambacht in Beeld Festival & the research project Crafting Futures?
We welcome you on 30 March 2024 at 11 am at Gare Maritime Tour & Taxis

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Discover our fascinating montages about craftsmanship.

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