Casa dos Artesans – Ribeira Sacra

Holiday cottage in rural Galicia (sleeps 2 - 5). Experience spectacular scenery, rural life, wine, art and Spanish craft. Learn basketry or textile weaving on holiday or visit the nearby craft workshops. "Lovely furnishings, colours ... and comfy beds" (client comment).

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Holidays with a difference in north Spain: Weaving, basketry and natural dyeing at Casa dos Artesans holiday cottage with Anna Champeney, textile weaver, and Lluis Grau, basketmaker

Photos of weaving, natural dyeing and basketry courses with Lluis Grau and Anna Champeney, held this summer in Galicia, northwest Spain. For unforgettable holidays in north Spain with a difference why not combine a stay at Casa dos Artesans holiday cottage and some quality one-to-one craft tuition. We offer a varied programme and dates to suit you. Courses start at 90€. We also offer highly unusual baskets for sale and to commission including the Spanish piteira basket. This chicken nesting basket with carry handle and door is ideal as a very unusual cat or dog basket, particularly for mother cats or dogs with kittens or puppies. [more...]

Ribeira Sacra craft workshops in Cristosende (A Teixeira, Ourense) - Annual selling textile and basketry craft exhibition and open workshops 1 – 31 August 2010 – Linen sacks, mushroom baskets, babycapes, shawls, linen face-cloths, guided workshop visits and more

It´s July in the Ribeira Sacra and hand-weaver and designer, Anna Champeney, and basketmaker, Lluis Grau, are working hard in order to make their textile and basketry studios ready to open to the public during August, when they have their their summer selling exhibition and open studios.  Their places of work are situated in beautifully-restored traditional stone buildings [more...]

Fela Pile Fabric Cushion - hand-woven Spanish Textile Design by Anna Champeney Textile Studio

Galician felpa cushions are still made by hand in this part of north Spain. The ancient technique of felpa – or hand-made macro loop-pile fabric, is over 1000 years old. Anna Champeney Textile Studio, in Galicia, specialises in felpa cushions with both traditional and modern designs, and combines research into the technique with promoting a wider understanding of the technique, both in Spain and internationally. Her work is available by internet, directly from her textile studio in the Ribeira Sacra, and from exhibitions. [more...]