This is a participatory cooking workshop held in the village of Saint-Suliac, opposite the grocer’s shop. The menu is built from products emblematic of the Breton culinary heritage, and it runs to three courses. A Breizh samoussa opens it, filled with seasonal vegetables and kari gosse. A fish fillet follows, chosen from the day’s catch and served with a cider sauce and glazed seasonal vegetables, before pommé breton closes the table.
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Cendrea Nature: wood-ash laundry soap, Saint-Pabu
Cendrea Nature needs only two things to make its cleaning products: wood ash and rainwater. Bruno Lecoeur brought back the ecological, Finistère-made laundry soap his forebears washed with, and sells it under that name. The visit explains the method and then hands it over, with an initiation to making laundry soap from wood ash. The session is open from fourteen years up, and the takings go to the Fondation du Patrimoine de Bretagne.
Pointe de Sel: fish leather at a Paimpol atelier
Pointe de Sel works leather drawn from the sea, and for this visit it opens the small atelier-boutique it keeps in the port of Paimpol. The artisans lay out the materials, the tools and each stage of making, then talk through what they are doing. The unusual part is the hide itself: fish skin, whose particular demands the workshop explains as it works. Two people must book for a visit to run, and the rooms take callers with disabilities.
Visite de l’Atelier de la Nacre, à Audierne
The Atelier de la Nacre opens its bench in Audierne for a behind-the-scenes tour, and visitors work the material themselves. Jocelyne has been a nacrière for more than twenty years, in one of the rares nacrières de France. She collects ormeaux, huîtres perlières and burgos from fishermen and shellfish farmers, and turns them into boucles d’oreille, bagues and pendentifs. It belongs to the savoir-faire weeks of the Brittany Tourist Offices.
Empreintes du crépuscule: linocut at Saint-Thélo
At nightfall the Maison des Toiles at Saint-Thélo opens the house of a linen-cloth merchant for a linocut workshop. Visitors read its architecture detail by detail in the failing light, then cut a block and print what they took from it. Their prints are set beside the work of Jeanne Malivel, the artist who worked in woodcut. The sittings belong to Les Minutes Bleues, which opens twenty-four heritage sites of the Côtes d’Armor in blue light.
Opozit, steel frame-building at Pommeret
Opozit builds custom steel bicycles inside Atelier OPN, a former farmstead in the Breton country, and opens its workshop for the Semaines du Tourisme Economique et des Savoir-Faire. Pierre, once a research engineer, chose the workbench over the design office. A frame is followed from the first digital sketch to the final weld, through bending, cutting and brazing. Computer-aided design sets its geometry to the millimetre for one rider’s build.
Embroidery at the Atelier du 5, Audierne
The Atelier du 5 opens its workroom at Audierne for an embroidery initiation inside the Economic Tourism and Local Crafts Weeks. Each sitting takes three people at most, so the work happens at the frame beside the embroiderer. What is taught is embroidery as a traditional Breton craft, with a needle in the hand of each participant. The fortnight is run by the Federation of Brittany Tourist Offices, and twelve is the youngest age admitted.
Atelier 33: lapidary and glass crafts, Landerneau
Atelier 33 opens its benches in Landerneau, where glass blowing and glass spinning, micro-soldering, laser engraving and lapidary work are practised. The session then turns practical with an initiation to the lapidary craft: each person learns how a rough stone is polished, works at it, and keeps the stone. Steven guides every step. The group is held to four people, and the bench is open from eighteen years up.
Visite de l’atelier Maïma Couture, à Pont-Croix
Maïma Couture keeps a craft workshop in Pont-Croix, a Petite Cité de Caractère of the Cap Sizun. From its bench come clothes and accessories made of material that is 99,99% upcyclés. The tour goes behind the scenes of a sewing workshop brimming with life and fabrics. It belongs to the savoir-faire weeks of the Federation of Brittany Tourist Offices, and part of the takings goes to the Fondation du Patrimoine de Bretagne.
Rozen Création, the workwear ateliers of Lamballe
CRÉATIONS CANTIN – ROZEN has cut professional apparel in Lamballe for half a century, and opens its ateliers for the Semaines du Tourisme Économique et des Savoir-Faire. The route starts in the design studio and reaches the floor where seamstresses train in the ROZEN savoir-faire. Embroidery and screen printing follow, the benches that personalise each garment. A turn through the shop closes the hour, with the range cut for nurses and cooks.