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Crafting connects people

Any share of knowledge created the human connection. Any material we take into our hands can become something special. Every second we spend on something special makes life unique.

Traditional Crafting
TIEING SODAS or Himmeli
Ancient Baltic tradition of straw art DANGAUS SODAI (Heavenly gardens) or HIMMELI is associated with Spring celebrations, meanwhile – mostly created during cold winter season.
From the first look impressive by its structure and patterns Sodas is much more than just a decoration, it's related with positive energy, peace and harmony.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
Easter Eggs painting
Eggs painting overtakes various techniques and materials, as: cooking with herbs or onion shells and scratching. Probably the most valued decor is made painting with the hot natural wax.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
weaving
Weaving is becoming an old modern passion of women in cities or country areas. Check your patience and mathematic skills on the traditional weaving machine or smaller gear.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
pottery
To drink fragrant tea from a cup you made yourself. Adults equate kneading clay with meditation, while for kids it is a great lesson in Lithuanian crafts. In Dzūkija, Merkinė has long been known for its black ceramics, some talented artisans are in Kernavė as well. They 'll tell you the entire history of ceramics, and show you how to mould and throw pottery.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
traditional mask
Mask were mostly crafted from the wood, fur and leather and symbolizes scary characters.
Hand made personal mask could be your unique souvenir to bring back home.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
other crafts
Hundreds of local passionate craft-men are willing to share their knowledge with you. The crafting, candle making, felting, whittling, instruments producing and many other great things to learn or improve on the professional or amateur level.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
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Traditional Cooking
Black bread baking
Traditional rye bread is nothing more but rye flour, water and few caraway grains. Learn how to turn few basic natural ingredients into the most valued dish on the table.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
Apple "Cheese"
The souvenir you can make and bring back home is a traditional sweet from the apple. When the apple crop is more than we can consume, apple cheese will make many people happy.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
Šakotis or tree cake
Lithuanian šakotis ("tree cake") is a cake made of butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream, cooked on a rotating spit over an open fire. It looks impressive, tastes even better but the baking process is totally exciting!
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
traditional plates
Let's cook cepelinai, kugelis, vedarai, saltibarsciai, kibinai and other. Or any other great and simple natural foods recipes can be discovered and applied for your daily meals later after.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
Cottage cheese
Traditionally cheese productions overtake cottage cheese. Hundreds of varieties of cottage cheese producing technologies awaits to be learnt: smoked, dried, baked, fermented accompanied with herbs, spices, fried fruits and vegetables.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
traditional plates
Melt-in-your-mouth delicious, this sweet came to us from the Tatars and has been known for nearly 600 years. The sheets of dough for a šimtalapis have to be paper-thin, nearly transparent. Because of the necessity for the highest quality products, the complicated process (the dough is often kneaded by two people) šimtalapis is usually a dessert reserved for special occasions.
Duration: 5h
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
artisanal beer
The process which traditionally lasted a couple of weeks ended up by the great traditional beer. In the regions where beer is brewed since ages locals know – no sugar or artificial substitutes should be used in the brewing process.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
Kwass or Gira
As rye bread was taken for gold, locals learned to use the remaining of it for producing the fermented drink. Looks like a beer, smells like the bread, taste like caramel. Nowadays we can find industrial gira, but nothing compares to the pleasure of tasting our own artisanal.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
acorn "coffee"
There is a great way to collect, grind and roast coffee without using the coffee beans. Thus acorns contain no caffeine, but are rich in various healthy substances. Acorn coffee generally strengthens the body, cleanses the blood, removes toxins from the body, and it is double more valuable with cinnamon.
Duration: 2h - few days
Lead: obliged
Group size: on request
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