Join us to learn the art of crafting a bamboo flute with two holes from a bamboo tube. Discover how to create a mouthpiece, construct a sill, fit a matching cork, and more.
This workshop is designed to accommodate individuals with or without prior flute experience, making it accessible to everyone.
The workshop instructors are members of the Nederlandse Pijpersgilde, a bamboo flute association. The association operates under the traditional guild system, where you undergo internal training as an apprentice to advance to the journeyman level. The examination encompasses four components: AMV, construction, playing, and conducting/teaching.
Make a booklet with a decorative binding called ‘the rope’.
The Keith Smith method utilises Zaansch Bord (rag paper) as the cover material. This unique paper originates from the renowned paper mill De Schoolmeester, which holds the distinction of being the sole wind-powered paper mill globally. De Schoolmeester exclusively crafts this paper using recycled cotton rags.
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).
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.
During this workshop, you will work with pre-printed paper and parchment to create a replica of a 1425 almanac called the ‘Kalendarium Perpetual’.
This almanac documented lunar eclipses from 1425 to 1462 and included illustrations of moon cycles. The almanac was designed as a ‘pouch-book’ or ‘belt-book’, making it convenient to carry by attaching it to a belt. Notably, the booklet’s pages are folded three times, resulting in a larger page surface. The content is written on one side, and the folded pages are bound at the top with a narrow tapered vellum cover.
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).
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.
A booklet, bound in a traditional Japanese way.
We utilize chiyogami paper to craft the cover of this booklet. Chiyogami originates from mulberry tree fibres, which are traditionally screen-printed in multiple runs to showcase exquisite colours and designs. Each sheet is individually screen-printed.
In Japanese binding, pages are consistently folded in a double manner, with the fold located at the front. This practice originated from using extremely thin paper, ensuring that text would not be visible through the pages.
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 (Belgium).
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.
Printing your own poster with wooden letters? You can!
GWA Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam is once again bringing a small printing press, antique wooden letters and ink to the Ambacht in Beeld Festival. With it, you can design and print your own personalised poster.
In its workshop just down the road in the NDSM Loods, GWA has an extensive collection of traditional graphic materials: printing presses, wooden letters, lead letters and everything you need for lino, woodcut and bookbinding. The foundation offers courses and workshops to anyone who wants to work with craft printing techniques themselves. School classes, graphics students, artists and lovers of handmade printing. Step away from the computer!
This workshop is for everyone aged eight years and up. You will work together with one other participant and make your own poster. The poster is not immediately dry; it is best to leave it hanging as long as possible before taking it home – or pick it up later at the Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam.
During this workshop, you can make your own peanut butter flavour, and in the meantime, learn everything about the tastiest peanut butter in The Netherlands! Let your imagination run wild and come up with a delicious new taste! Your taste may come out best in the test, and you will receive a nice peanut prize!
The idea for a peanut butter shop started at the kitchen table, where Michiel began to combine the first flavours. This bio farmer has been a big peanut butter fan from an early age. Yet he needed more variety in the existing range. After several successful tests, the Peanut Boss decided to take it seriously. The idea of De Pindakaaswinkel was born. And we are still proud of that! A building has been taken into use on the Czaar Peterstraat in Amsterdam, where the name ‘De Pindakaaswinkel’ has been pasted on the window with stickers. Once the store opened its doors in 2016, the response was overwhelming! Now, six years and 18 stores later, we still enthusiastically put peanut butter on the pedestal it deserves!
In addition to the workshop, there is a mini peanut butter shop at the festival, including a tasting table. Everyone can taste, and during the tasting, we happily inform you about the traditional way we make the peanut butter.
Under the guidance of an actual carpenter and his team, you can help build a tiny, tiny house. For small and older children: sawing wood, planing, drilling holes, driving in screws and hammering in nails. Super fun, even if you’ve never done it before, we’ll help you on your way!
Ruud Dubel is a furniture maker and fine woodworker in Amsterdam. He likes fun, crazy, challenging, simple and unexpected ideas, and he likes to supervise the creative building process during the festival.
Will you help build?
Young children must be under the supervision of parents/guardians.
Parents/guardians are responsible for their children at all times. The festival accepts no liability.
Be inspired by the Amsterdam School style, step into the shoes of a real artist and create your own graphic artwork! During this workshop, you will experiment with colour, shape and lines, pull gouges and ink out of the closet and let the printing press run overtime to create a beautiful linocut.
The artists of the Amsterdam School were real all-rounders. Besides the beautiful architecture, furniture and utensils, many were also involved in typography and graphic design. They often used printing techniques to design posters or book covers, for example. And now you can do the same!
Young or old, everyone is welcome at this workshop. For children under eight, special material is available on which they cannot cut themselves. Nice and safe!
This workshop is offered by Museum Het Schip, the museum about the Amsterdam School in architecture, crafts and public housing.
This workshop is continuous. You just buy a ticket and can join when a place is available.
How does a plane stay in the air? Why does the sound of a car change when it passes you? Can you launch a rocket with a bicycle pump? Find out in the surprising and interactive NEMO Science Tour. In 20 minutes, you will see spectacular experiments that amaze young and old, challenge you to participate, and, above all, make you curious!
NEMO Science Museum, the science museum in Amsterdam, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a major anniversary programme. With the theme Nederland Curious, NEMO will pay tribute to curiosity both inside and outside the museum walls and encourage people to ask questions. One of the components of the festive programme is the NEMO Science Tour. With a surprising and interactive programme, NEMO will travel throughout the Netherlands this autumn. Have you got a burning question of your own? Submit it at the tour or on the website www.nemo100jaar.nl.
The 17th-century painting techniques workshop will introduce you to painting very realistic paintings as the old masters did. We will study how a painting was constructed in those days. Corinna will explain more about this briefly. And then you will get to work practically. Don’t expect to make an entire painting. That also took them months in the 17th century and still does, depending on the size and complexity of a painting. However, you will learn how it is constructed, and we will practice one part called ‘underpainting’. At least part of it because it’s too much to finish in that short time frame. It’s easy if you get the hang of it. So anyone can join regardless of their experience. It’s a technique!
So in this workshop, you will have a taste of the 17th-century technique; we will play with it so that you start to understand what is meant. You will be given a step-by-step description of how to make an underpainting. It’s more of an experience to take home than something finished. Of course, you can take your work home afterwards. We work in oil paint, so it needs time to dry. If your wet work is not transportable, you may pick it up later at Atelier Wildschut in the NDSM Loods.
Corinna Wildschut has taught this beautiful craft for 30 years at the vocational school Nimeto in Utrecht and her own Atelier Wildschut in the NDSM Loods. She was brought up on the subject by her mother, also an imitation painter. Besides teaching, she frequently practices this art, with varying assignments. Besides painting decorations, she makes wall and ceiling paintings. She also restores stucco ceilings, ornaments, mirror frames, and other antique objects.
Festival address:
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85
1033 WC Amsterdam
Postal address:
Stichting Ambacht in Beeld
Kalf 158
1509AH Zaandam
The Netherlands
