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Take the opportunity to visit arts and crafts masters and create something beautiful and lasting with your very own hands. In the creative workshops of our area, you can feel the smell of clay, paint and warm tea, as time stops and everyone can let the creative juices flow without hurry.

Choose one of the creative workshops in the area of Tukums, try something new and bring home not only a piece you've created yourself but also the sense of achievement and a warm feeling in your heart!

Porcelain Workshop “Cerannic” in Tukums

The founder of the Porcelain Workshop Annija Kanska believes that a pretty cup can offer a moment of peace to everyone. In small, friendly master class groups, everyone can discover the magic of porcelain — the secrets of casting, the shaping of a handle and underglaze painting.

Easy-going ambience, laughter, conversations and creativity await here to make unique cups. You won’t be able to take it with you straight away, because it needs to be triple-burnt, which will take approximately two weeks.

Time to take part in the creative process must be arranged individually. Master classes are also available at your location, offering a great shared experience for teams, friends, or festive occasions.

Take part in a porcelain master class and gift yourself peace offered by the creative process.

If you don’t quite have the time to make your own mug, you can purchase one of Annija’s mugs at the “Cerannic” workshop, located at 2 Elizabetes Street in Tukums. More information HERE: www.cerannic.com

Ceramic Workshop“Mēness bļoda”

“Mēness Bļoda” – a ceramic workshop set up by a mother and a daughter on Saules Hill in Tukums. Here, porcelain and clay are transformed into tableware and jewellery, infused with a woman’s care, serenity, and the warmth of a hearth. Here, both ceramists create their designs from A to Z and welcome everyone to visit and experience the creative process.

The master classes offer the opportunity to create porcelain tableware and jewellery — brooches, earrings, pendants — as well as bowls, mugs, and other items of your choice.

The ceramists will support you every step of the way to create just what you want. There is no “right” or “wrong” in the master classes — all that matters is your idea that is awaiting the right moment to take shape.

Come for a visit, take a break from the busy rhythm of life and give yourself a moment to create something truly yours — a piece of jewellery or tableware which will always remind you of this peaceful moment.

Guests are welcome to stop by for a visit and buy some tableware at the workshop at 11 Saules Street, Tukums.

Tukums Weavers’ Workshop

Tukums Weavers’ Workshop is a place where age-old skills and tradition meet today’s textile art. Ever since 1974, weavers here have been maintaining and handing down ancient weaving traditions, happily introducing everyone with looms, techniques and the world of crafts. The visitors can not only observe the work of masters, but also try their hand at weaving and other crafts in one-off sessions and full courses.

At Weaver’s Workshop, creative workshops for students and young people offer the opportunity to learn about the weaving process, visit exhibitions, and create their own works using yarn, paper, polyethylene, and other materials to make appliqués, braided items, and prints. Creative workshops are suitable for all ages, they are engaging and offer an inspiring experience.

Weaver’s Workshop at 3 Tidaholmas Street in Tukums is open daily for visitors to drop in and purchase items made by local craftswomen.

Straw workshop – museum

Tukums hosts the only Straw Museum in Latvia and Europe — a place where you can see more than 600 unique straw and hay sculptures, fairy-tale characters, and large-scale straw artworks. This is a magical, heartfelt and surprising point of interest created by the family of Kristīne Zihmane-Rītiņa bringing joy to the younger and older visitors alike. A simple straw is turned into miracles here!

At the straw workshop, everyone — children, adults, families, and groups of friends — can try their hand at straw and hay sculpting. Under the guidance of a straw master, you will learn the first steps and create a unique hay or straw piece to take with you as a nice souvenir. The workshop offers a creative, friendly atmosphere where little birds, animals, gnomes, dolls, and even small sculptures come to life. All materials are 100 % eco-friendly, and the experience is truly unforgettable.

The creative workshops are perfect for work teams, school groups, or groups of friends to celebrate or mark occasions. The Straw Workshop can also travel to other locations, bringing a creative atmosphere wherever it goes.

At the Straw Workshop, you can also purchase ready-made figurines or place a custom order if you’d like the artisans to create something special for you.

During the summer, the workshop is open to visitors every day, but larger groups are advised to book a visit in advance.

Creative workshop “Ligzda”

The society “Ligzda” brings together creatively thinking people who inspire new ideas and are not afraid to bring them to life. Dreamers who believe in their visions and turn them into tangible pieces.

“Ligzda” is a welcoming space, where creativity and enjoyment are shared. Here, you can knit and crochet, create fleece and decoupage items, learn flower arrangement, make rag dolls, teddy bears and custom dolls, create Christmas tree decorations and many more. Each piece is a story, and the time spent here is an opportunity to discover new creative possibilities within oneself.

Creative workshops take place throughout the year, including the winter months, and they are suitable for children and grown-ups alike. It is an excellent opportunity to learn something new, spend time in an inspiring environment, and create something truly special. You can also buy pieces created here.

Find out more about master classes and creative workshops HERE – https://www.facebook.com/ligzda

Wicker-Weaving Workshop of Pēteris Tutāns

In a beautiful nook, surrounded by forests, near Milzukalns Hill, where the gently undulating landscape breathes peace and time slows down, you will find the workshop of Pēteris Tutāns. This is the place of work of the well-known basket-weaver with golden hands and heart-warming humour, who is able to weave anything and everything — from a small basket to a design lamp. Here, strands are weaved into stories and hands make true masterpieces.

Visitors are welcomed here as guests to learn about the daily life of a basket weaver, tour the workshop, smell the scent of willow strands, and try their hand at this ancient craft. The offer includes both short, engaging creative workshops and in-depth master classes, during which everyone can make their own tray or basket. Everything you need is provided, but the most important thing you’ll take away is enjoyment from the work you’ve created. Master classes are also held in foreign languages.

This is not just a workshop. It is an experience and a chance to be surrounded by nature’s silence and stop the sense of time, meet the welcoming master, learn ancient Latvian traditions, and create something that is your own, tangible and practical.

You can come to the workshop to buy already finished pieces, too.

Creative Workshop “Grašu māja” in Apšuciems

At the creative workshop “Grašu māja”, ancient pottery traditions intertwine with modern creativity. This is a place created by its master Ivars Grasis, where black or smoked pottery items are made, burnt to achieve their appearance in an open-fire wood furnace.

This is a place where clay is turned into crockery, sculptures and living objects, while the peace of nature allows experiencing the creative process from the first touch until the finished product. Guests can explore the workshop and the furnace, observe the creation of pieces on the pottery wheel and purchase unique ceramic items.

Creative workshops offer a special experience, allowing you to step into the shoes of a potter — shaping a piece on the wheel or by hand — and either take your creation home or leave it to be fired in the kiln. Creative workshops are offered for individuals, couples, groups, wedding events and occasions.

Here, clay and hands together create something unique and inimitable.

To ensure that the time spent together is creatively enriching, the visit must be arranged in advance. Sign up and get the creative juices flowing!

You can also buy finished ceramic items at the workshop.

Creative workshop “Pērle rada” in Engure

Creative workshop “Pērle rada” at the vicarage of Engure invites individual visitors and groups to enjoy creative, inspiring and unhurried activities. The offer includes a wide range of art and crafts workshops suitable for beginners and those looking to expand their creative skills.

Here you can try your hand at alcohol ink and acrylic marbling, painting, cyanotype, screen printing, resist dyeing (shibori), carpet tufting, as well as weaving workshops — from the first steps at the loom to creating your very own towel or scarf. Most of the workshops can also be organised at your location, tailored to the specific event.

Workshops are held in small groups offering an individual approach in a friendly and creative atmosphere. No prior knowledge is generally required. You just need the desire to create and to let the process take you on a creative journey.

Sign up in advance by writing an e-mail toinfo@perlerada.com .

Battle-front Art Workshop

Learn about the creative endeavours in World War I trenches and the surprising skills of Latvian riflemen on the battle-front who created unexpected objects out of cartridge cases, bullets and even hand grenade chips, such as rings, candle holders, pencil holders and other small, but outstanding pieces. These were equally practical items and symbolic talismans offering power and hope at the time.

At the Battle-front Art Workshop, everyone can try out more than 100 year old techniques and make a ring, a pendant or a candle holder out of original materials. It will be an exciting experience and a unique keepsake to bring back home.

Workshops can also be organised at client’s location, and souvenirs are available for purchase. Suitable for participants aged 10 years and older.

Creative Workshop “7 balles”

The creative and fantasy workshops organized by society “7 BALLES” invite people of all ages to immerse themselves in a true adventure of imagination. Here, you can participate in woodworking and handicraft workshops, working with wood, clay, plaster, fabric, paper, yarn, nails, glass, and other materials.

A wide variety of activities are on offer, including trying various techniques of candle-making, making wooden cars, boats, trains, athlete figurines, and weather vanes, jigsaw cutting, wood burning, tatting (lace-making with a needle and thread), tile mosaics, creating plaster ornaments and clay pieces — wind chimes and buntings. You can also make reflectors and strings of reflectors, fabric bags, notepads, Christmas tree ornaments, hanging straw ornaments, pinwheels, pegs with figurines, bullroarers, sand mandalas, and much more.

The workshops take place in two dedicated spaces — the woodworking and handicrafts workshop — where participants can work in smaller and larger groups. Each session lasts approximately one hour, and to make the day even more creative, you can choose between two different workshops.

Suitable for children, families, school groups and everyone who wishes to try something exciting and creative.

It is recommended to sign up for sessions in advance.

Creative Activities with Linda Priedniece in Kandava

Linda Priedniece in Kandava invites you to a peaceful and inspiring meeting with clay, paints and creativity. Her main passion is her ceramics workshop, where, working with Latvian brown clay, anyone — even without any prior experience — can create their first pieces and discover the healing power of clay, the textures of nature, and the magic of a potter’s life.

At the creative workshops, you can make 1–2 small dishes — a cup, a bowl or a pot. After the session, your creations will stay at the workshop for drying and firing. When the pieces are ready, their creators will be contacted and arrangements will be made for handing over. Alongside creative activities in the workshop, you can also learn about the unique features of black pottery, the potter’s craft, and the clay-firing process.

In addition to ceramics, the offer also includes candle and soap making, painting on clothing and fabric with nature prints, workshops of paper and packaging printing for children, linocut, plaster, mosaic, and paper-casting, making greeting cards and Christmas decorations, as well as creating concrete garden pots. Many workshops adopt sustainability and less waste principles, by upcycling old items.

Workshops are suitable for children, adults, families, work groups and occasions; they can be held in Kandava or at client’s location, by making prior arrangements on time, place and contents.

Feel, create and take home an item created with your own hands to instil a story and warmth.

Weavers of Jaunpils Crafts House and Ceramist Velga Melne

Jaunpils Crafts House is the meeting place for creativity and ancient crafts skills, where everyone is invited not only to observe but to take part, too. Its story begins in Jaunpils Weavers’ Workshop, where guests are introduced to weaving traditions, the variety of looms, and the process of fabric-making all the way from a thread to a pattern. Here, under the guidance of masters, you can take part in creative workshops, learn the foundations of weaving, pottery and other traditional crafts in a modern and accessible way.

Visitors to the weavers’ workshop can learn about different types of looms, try their hand at weaving and weave your own thread into fabric. At the creative ceramic workshop, under the guidance of the potter Velga Melne, upon signing up in advance, you can learn about the process of clayware making, as well as try working clay yourself. Individual orders are also accepted. You can buy a souvenir here, too.

Creative activities are suitable for children, grown-ups, individual visitors, families and groups.

In addition to its daily workshops, the Crafts House also offers themed master classes and custom experiences, including a Latvian-style wedding tour, where traditions come to life through creative activities — stories of dowry, spinning threads of love, and symbolic gifts for the newlyweds.

Jaunpils Crafts House is a place to explore traditions, allowing visitors to return home with a piece created with own hands or purchased from the shop, alongside a truly Latvian experience.