Ticket Sales Start: September 1, 2024, at 10:00 AM
Entrance Ticket Prices:
The prices include VAT, service fees, and a €1,50 amusement tax for the municipality of Amsterdam.
Children up to 13 years old have free entry (must obtain a free ticket for those under 13 years old).
Free entrance with your Stadspas (available only at the door upon presentation of your Stadspas, not available for online reservations).
Please Note: Everyone attending the festival, including those participating in workshops or masterclasses, requires an entrance ticket.
Van der Linde is a specialist in art supplies and graphic studio materials, established in 1898. It operates both as a retail store and a wholesale distributor, catering to schools, creative centers, professional visual artists, hobbyists, and anyone with creative aspirations.
“During the festival, we want to introduce visitors to our extensive range of products. The selection we present will complement the workshops at the festival. If you’re inspired, you’ll find the materials with us to continue practicing your newly learned skills at home. We’ll also highlight some sustainable product innovations. We will demonstrate water-mixable oil paints and offer a ‘make and take’ activity with Posca markers for the children.”
Boektotaal is a bookbinding and restoration studio located in the Boekbindcentrum in Echten (Drenthe). Boektotaal specializes in offering various bookbinding-related workshops and courses (including on-site), and they also sell everything related to hand bookbinding, such as various tools, decorative papers, bone folders, bookbinding glue, and linen for covering books.
Aaldert de Lange has been passionate about books and bookbinding since childhood. At the age of eleven, he helped his parents sell books in their antiquarian bookstore. Because his father repaired books with Bison glue, which caused the books to no longer open properly, Aaldert decided to learn bookbinding. In addition to teaching workshops and selling bookbinding materials and tools, he also restores books at the Boekbindcentrum in Echten.
For over 20 years, Tanja Rakic has been involved in teaching bookbinding courses and workshops. She also enjoys organizing bookbinding-related events and trips, such as a workshop at the Abbey of Berne and the Bookbinding Fair in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium).
During the festival, Boektotaal offers various workshops. For example, you can create a book with a leather cover or a woven book.
Amsterdamsche Fijnhout is a family business that has been around since 1898. Starting as a furniture workshop in the Jordaan district, it has grown into one of the most specialized timber traders in the Netherlands.
During the Ambacht in Beeld Festival, the Amsterdamsche Fijnhout stand will showcase and sell a wide variety of wood types. You’ll find unique pieces of wood with beautiful grain, texture, and color. Whether you’re looking for wood for carving, turning, pedestals, cutting boards, or any other project, we are here to help and love to discuss a fine piece of wood! In addition to wood, we also sell Japanese saws. These saws are pull saws, providing a perfect fine cut. You’re welcome to try one at our stand.
Wood is a renewable resource, a natural material that grows relatively quickly. It is crucial that wood is produced sustainably. The importance of this is gradually being recognized in many parts of the world. The European Timber Regulation and certifications like FSC help ensure the wood’s origin, though there is still much work to be done. We increasingly buy and promote various European wood species such as oak, ash, and maple. We prefer to purchase tropical species with an FSC certification, ensuring they are traceable to their source. Additionally, we buy old stocks of special wood to have new supplies without the need for new logging.
Since 2021, we have been located in a new facility designed to be as energy-neutral as possible. With the help of 300 solar panels, our sawmill runs on solar energy for most of the year. Our forklifts are fully electric. We aim to minimize wood waste by selling even small pieces or giving them away as samples. Moreover, we are involved in a project with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to process leftover wood into furniture using robotic technology.
Come visit us at the festival and explore the beauty and sustainability of fine wood!
Moniquenwerk Broderie d’art is the store for materials used in haute couture embroidery and goldwork, owned by Monique van Munster.
Broderie d’art is the intricate embroidery technique renowned in Parisian haute couture. Monique frequently travels to Paris to source the finest beads and sequins. The store also specializes in silk embroidery threads and other beautiful yarns.
Monique has been passionate about handicrafts her entire life. Since 2013, she has run an embroidery studio in Tilburg. At her studio, Monique teaches broderie d’art, goldwork, and 3D embroidery. Her students come from all over the Netherlands, as well as from Germany and Belgium. Since 2023, Monique van Munster’s broderie d’art has been recognized on the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands.
Because she often works with hard-to-find materials, Monique started sourcing them for her students. The assortment initially grew from her classes but has now expanded into a treasure trove for embroiderers who enjoy experimenting with unique materials.
At Ambacht in Beeld, Monique sells materials for goldwork such as gold threads and spangles, silk embroidery threads, beads and sequins, colored silk organza, various types of ribbons and trimmings, silk velvet, and materials for crafting artisanal buttons.
During the festival, you can participate in Monique’s workshop on crafting artisanal buttons.
The family-owned business Hawar Textielinstituut is a paradise for textile enthusiasts. Teachers from both the Netherlands and abroad come to share their knowledge and skills in the spacious and atmospheric workshop located in Oldeberkoop, Friesland. Additionally, there is an extensive shop and an inspiring gallery, making it a breeding ground where new and old materials and textile techniques are rediscovered.
During the festival, Hawar sells various materials and tools for textile enthusiasts, you can also purchase the magazine “Vezel” at Hawar’s booth.
Hawar also teaches the workshop “Experiment with Botanical Printing.”
In “Vezel,” you’ll read about personal textile adventures and be inspired by others’ enthusiasm. Knowledge, skills, and experiences are shared, offering opportunities to discover new techniques and materials or innovative applications of traditional ones. What could be more enjoyable than putting these ideas into practice? “Vezel” encourages inspiration, creativity, and trying out things yourself.
What started over 40 years ago as a newsletter about spinning and dyeing has evolved into a comprehensive and practical textile magazine, still published by the Stichting Spin- & Verfkrant—a group of volunteers dedicated to sharing the importance of material knowledge, techniques, and experiences, keeping the craft vibrant and alive in today’s world.
For 42 years, “Vezel” has been created by and for textile enthusiasts. It serves as a platform where everyone can share their textile adventures, making “Vezel” truly special.
Boektotaal is a bookbinding and restoration workshop located in the Bookbinding Centre in Echten (Dr.). Boektotaal specializes in giving various bookbinding-related workshops and courses (also on location), and sells everything in the field of manual bookbinding, such as various tools, decorative paper, folding legs, bookbinding glue, and linen for covering a book.
Aaldert de Lange’s upbringing was steeped in a passion for books and bookbinding. By age 11, he was already assisting his parents in selling books at their antiquarian bookshop. Observing that his father’s book repairs using Bison sealant often hindered the books from opening, Aaldert began learning the art of bookbinding. In addition to conducting workshops and offering bookbinding materials and tools, he executes book repairs at the Bookbinding Centre in Echten.
Tanja Rakic has actively engaged in offering courses and workshops in the field of bookbinding for more than 20 years. Additionally, she enjoys arranging bookbinding-related events and trips, including organizing a workshop at Berne Abbey and participating in the Bookbinding Fair in Sint-Niklaas (B).
During the festival, Boektotaal will host several workshops. For example, you can make a booklet with Japanese binding, a medieval folding almanac or a booklet with a decorative binding called ‘the rope‘.
Plooij Hats & Materials is a Dutch supplier of hats and hat materials, offering a full range.
Think of materials such as felt, sinamay, sisal, parasisal, sisal band, seagrass, paper, buntal, abaca silk and straw. And materials for finishing, such as ribbon, satin ribbon, leather and artificial leather straps, feathers and flowers of various materials.
Plooij has something for everyone. Of course, you can also use these materials for other purposes.
During the festival, Plooij will give hat-making demonstrations. Let yourself be surprised by the traditional making process and the variety of materials used.
The family-run Hawar Textile Institute is a Walhalla for the textile enthusiast. Teachers from home and abroad come to pass on knowledge and skills in the large and atmospheric workshop in Oldeberkoop (Friesland). There is also a very extensive shop and an inspiring gallery, making it an incubator where new and old materials and textile techniques are (re)discovered.
Hawar sells various materials and tools during the festival for the textile enthusiast and offers the workshop Experimenting with plant printing. You can also purchase the magazine Vezel at Hawar’s stand.
In Vezel, you will read personal textile adventures and be taken away by the enthusiasm of others. Knowledge, skills and experience are shared. Discover new techniques and materials or new applications of old techniques and materials. What could be more fun than putting them to work afterwards? Vezel encourages you to dream, to fantasize, to try it yourself!
What started over 40 years ago as a newsletter about spinning and dyeing has grown over the years into a broad and practical textile magazine, which is still published by the Spin- & Verfkrant Foundation, a group of volunteers who feel it is important to share the knowledge of materials and techniques and the experiences with this knowledge in the present day, thus keeping the craft alive.
Vezel has been created for and by textile lovers for 42 years. It is a platform where everyone can share their textile adventures, which makes Vezel so special.
A specialist in artists’ supplies and graphic studio equipment, Van der Linde has been around since 1898. It is both a shop and a wholesaler for schools, creative centres, professional visual artists, hobbyists and anyone with creative aspirations.
“During the festival, we want to take visitors through our wide range of products. The selection we present ties in with the festival’s workshops. Got inspired? With us, you will find the materials to continue with your newly learned skills at home. We also highlight some sustainable product innovations. We will demonstrate water mixable oil paints and, for the children, a ‘make and take’ with Posca.”
Festival address:
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85
1033 WC Amsterdam
Postal address:
Stichting Ambacht in Beeld
Kalf 158
1509AH Zaandam
The Netherlands
