European Crafts Days Cévennes Tourism

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All the Cevennes in a museum!

Why the chestnut tree is called the breadfruit tree, the mulberry tree, the golden tree?

An incredible collection of 10,000 exhibits gives an understanding of the life, the savoir-faire and the history of the Cevennes.
The Cevennes and craftsmanship is a great love story.

Maison Rouge – Museum of the Cévennes valleys hosts a collection of objects of all materials made locally: chestnut wood, leather, metal, earth, wicker, glass, on paper and obviously silk.

Crafted, woven, embroidered, each object is unique. It speaks for itself of life in the Cevennes, of the men and women who shaped them to their measure.

Welcoming to Maison Rouge, the art craftsmen’s fair makes sense. It is an opportunity to show these skills, to show that they are rooted in the daily life, to pay tribute to them, to make them endure and that they sublimate the daily life.

Hopefully the marriage of Maison Rouge and art crafts.

See you

On Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2 from10am to 6pm on the museum’s first floor. Free access to the exhibition hall.

The good plan: on the 1st Sunday of the month, the museum is free.

Not to be missed

J’INDIGO

Sylvie Fournier

At the crossroads of passions for travel, fabric and nature lie textile block printing and natural colors. The fabrics printed and dyed by Sylvie Fournier tell of her learning at the source -in Rajasthan- of ancestral techniques and her fascination for the plants that surround her here in the Cevennes.

Saturday, April 1 at 11:00 am: Tatakizome workshop

Coming from Japan, tatakizome is a botanical printing technique on fabric. It is simple to set up, pleasant to practice, and the results are quite spectacular.

An opportunity to discover the region’s plants in a different way, travel with your hands, and leave with a pretty design to hang on the wall or sew for a unique piece.

You can come with a few stems of plants that you like.

Possibility to print a tote bag (participation of 3 euros for the tote bag).

Duration: 45-60 mn
Registration on site: 10 people

Tel: 07 60 25 34 95

J'indigo

Maison GRANDADAM

Jimmy GrandAdam

The Maison GrandAdam manufactures, in the most traditional methods of leather goods, all of its leather items in Florac in the heart of the Cevennes National Park (cutting, dyeing, assembling, polishing and hand sewing are done in the workshop): belts, bags, cases or other custom projects.

Design, purity and sustainability are the key words for both the products and the workshop open to all.

To be discovered during the weekend: Presentation of hand sewing and exchanges on leathers, their manufacture, and the different ways of working them.

Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 4:00 PM (while space is available)
Wristband workshop

Tel: 06 73 18 08 49

House GrandAdam

Alain Mailland

All of Alain Mailland’s work is based on the beauty and characteristics of each wood. He uses mainly roots and fresh cuttings from the region because they are precious woods with extraordinary patterns and colors: pistachio, arbutus, heather, filaria, hackberry, etc. Alain Mailland uses very fine wood to make these delicate pieces. For this craftsman of art, there is a connection between all species on earth: we can find animal and mineral forms in roots and plants, and vice versa. The kingdoms intersect, the borders are blurred. Humans are linked with all creatures living on earth. This is what Alain Mailland feels when he shapes his pieces. Thanks to the lathe and its techniques, Alain Mailland can reproduce all the circular structures that we observe in the universe, from the atom to the galaxy. For him, the birth of his creations is the embodiment of his dreams.

Sunday, April 2 at 3:00 pm: Thirty years of discoveries in turning and carving with Midi woods. Projection of photos of work in progress and realization of the pieces. Journey into a new organo-cosmic world!

Alain Mailland

Cluz Stained Glass

Nathalie Falaschi

The workshop “Vitraux CLUZ” is dedicated to the creation and restoration of damaged stained glass. It is in line with the tradition and respect for the ethical and deontological values of Master glassmakers since the Middle Ages! Founded in 2010 by Nathalie Falaschi, a stained glass artist trained in ancient techniques such as lead stained glass, painting on glass and more recent techniques such as the glass slab or the Tiffany technique with copper ribbon. The workshop was able to intervene on sites of creations and restorations in places as varied as churches, temples and classified monuments (castles of the 15th century, chapels) as well as for private residences.
It also makes lamps and wall sconces original and colorful to magnify your interior (square, round, rectangular …).

Saturday, April 1 at 3:00 pm : Conference

“Stained Glass” or how to take care of a fragile heritage! Thin wall of glass and lead, the stained glass window by its interior/exterior position is prey to the aggressions of the weather, vandalism but also to those related to the building in which it rests: humidity, incense smoke, micro-organisms; This conference will reveal the methods used by a Master glassmaker of the 21st century to remedy all these evils.

Tel: 06 38 51 49 63

Stained glass windows Cluz

2023 Programming

FIRE IN ALL DIRECTIONSMarion Boulze

Counting the rings of a tree stump is a science, it is called dendrochronology. It allows us to know the age of trees and much more. Marion Boulze, creator of lighting fixtures, highlights the history of time in light. These unique pieces are of great finesse.

To discover during the weekend: Commented slide show on the evolution of the work of the craftsman of art.

Tel : 06 16 67 27 50 – Facebook : Feu de tout Bois

Serge Bruguière

Serge Bruguière is passionate about basketry, He mainly makes baskets and baskets. Before getting to the heart of the work, the making, the basket maker selects his raw material. Originally from the Cevennes, Serge Bruguière is particularly fond of chestnut. He passes on his know-how through training courses.

To discover during the weekend: Sharing the different gestures for the craft manufacture of Cévennes basketry.

Tel: 06 62 23 77 14

Sylvie De Marans

Sylvie de Marans, santonnière alésienne, makes painted clay santons intended for detailed crib enthusiasts and collectors. Movement and staging are at the heart of her creations. Sylvie takes care of each step of her santon making to propose singular and endearing characters and animals. Her “little saints” seem to have found the right balance between tradition and arts and crafts.

To discover during the weekend: Santon making demonstration and painting.

Tel: 04 66 30 50 51 – Facebook: Santons Sylvie de Marans

Emilie Gamba

The Traditional Bookbinding Workshop in Anduze presents the craft of bookbinding and book restoration. Emilie Gamba restores your favorite books to give them a second life. The bookbinder d’Art also creates custom-made notebooks, guest books or albums, in canvas, paper and leather.

Discover during the weekend: Demonstration of sewing in traditional bookbinding with the cousoir.

Tel: 06 45 92 00 47 – Instagram: emiliegamba.atelierreliure

CARTONS PATTE D'FFanny Pelletier

Fanny Pelletier works with recycled cardboard to create unique and colorful works. From jewelry to the creation of lighting through the design of furniture, Fanny Pelletier compiles her know-how with a committed approach to respect for the environment and the human.

To discover during the weekend: Demonstration of the creation of a light fixture.

Tel: 06 84 56 34 23 – Website: www.cartons-patte-df.com

Patrick Gorgeot

Patrick Gorgeot has a sculptural approach to jewelry, which is what characterizes his unique pieces designed in silver. Rings, necklaces, pendants, brooches are handcrafted. The metal, in the form of ribbon or plate is rolled, stamped, welded.
The graphic effects are multiple, inspired by the plant world, mineral, architectural.

To discover during the weekend: exchanges with the public around the creations.

Instagram: patrickgorgeot

Brigitte Havet-Deharo

Passionate about the Middle Ages, Brigitte Havet-Deharo creates illuminations inspired by Bestiaries, Manuscripts and ancient Armorials. It is with Max Roger Gueguen, Master Illuminator, that she was trained in this mysterious art. Her experience allowed her to lead several workshops at the Louis Médard Museum in Lunel (classified as a French museum) as part of a project to discover the 14th century manuscripts in the collection. She also worked at the Archives Départementales de Nîmes on the exhibition “Bacchus au pays des Archives”.
To discover during the weekend: Making an initials on a bookmark.

Tel: 06 66 26 80 93

Jean-Etienne Gaumé

Jean-Etienne Gaumé designs art santons in Alès. He has a self-taught background in sculpture and molding. His molded clay santons, and made in unique pieces (between 7.5cm to 8.4cm and 11cm to 16cm) are of a very meticulous invoice.

The reproduced costumes are those of Arles and the rest of Provence, in the XVIII th and XIX th century, and are made in the respect of the accuracy, as well in the realization of the models as in the painting of the patterns.
These are reproductions of old Indian women of these times.
These santons offer us a fashion show of Provencal costume, and make us discover the soul of this country.

To discover during the weekend: Demonstration of decoration.

Tel: 06 98 41 27 43

DREAM OF LIGHTFlorence Portefaix

It is in her workshop in Tornac at the gateway to the Cevennes that Florence Portefaix creates lighting with precious handmade papers. Papers shaped from Murier for Korean paper(hanji) or Daphne or lokta for Nepalese paper. This light and fragile vegetable material is very resistant and it is sublimated by the light by playing with the transparency or the opacity, the patterns and the colors. From floor to ceiling and for all interiors, his custom lamps come in floor lamps, table lamps, hanging lamps, wall lamps…all poetic, unique and colorful.

To discover during the weekend: Demonstration – creation of a suspension.

Tel: 06 62 71 12 73 – Website: www.florenceportefaix.com

Valerie Siksik

Valerie Siksik is a corset maker. This specialized seamstress designs and makes corsets in ready-to-wear and custom-made. Each creation is unique and the result of an exchange with the person who will wear it.
Valerie has a sense of detail and allows her creations to highlight the female curves.

To discover during the weekend: Creation of a corselet.

Tel: 06 20 34 67 06 – Facebook: Valerie Siksik

Emmanuelle Dupont

Emmanuelle Dupont embroiderer and textile designer, is inspired by the living. She explores embroidery freely by mixing traditional know-how and experimental techniques.

Through her works, she experiments with the multiplicity of natural materials, of plant and animal origin in particular those derived from the silkworm (muslin, pongee, organza, silk velvet, raw silk, florence horsehair, blaze, cocoons, production waste …).

She also manipulates other materials and materials whose intrinsic qualities allow for a novel experimental practice. The material is modeled, embroidered, dyed, structured, drilled, sculpted, sublimated to offer a series of “chimeras”, between sculpture and adornment, inspired by biomimicry, animal and plant hybridization or metamorphosis
To discover during the weekend: demonstration of jewelry creation.

Tel : 06 82 03 03 80 – Website : www.emmanuelle-dupont.com – Instragram: emmanuelle.dupont.brodeuse

Marine Roussel

Marine Roussel creates utilitarian and decorative pieces in stoneware and porcelain. The ceramist focuses her work on the sobriety of shapes and the softness of textures. Some pieces are decorated using a technique close to engraving, with motifs inspired by the surrounding nature. Others are simply glazed, or colored with engobes and then polished.

To be discovered during the weekend: demonstration of sgraffito decoration.

Tel : 06 14 19 36 34 – Facebook : Marine Roussel

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