SL23 SEC Creative workshop tinkering

Tinkering was a specific Slovak craft and Slovak tinkers, who made their living by mending the kitchen ware, tinkering, making and selling products from tinplate and wires, travelled all over Europe and Russia. The origins of this occupation dates from 18th and 19th centuries. The cradle of tinkering was the environs of Trenčín and the region of Kysuce. Some tinkers became rich entrepreneurs. It is possible to see beautiful samples of work of old masters and also of current craftsmen and modern designers using tinker technology in the exposure of tinker in Považské Muzeum in Žilina-Budatín.

Students divided into four different and mixed groups, learn to work copper wires, to produce handicrafts. From a simple copper wire, they obtain a spiral, which then, after being worked, will become a decoration for a heart already previously made to create a copper necklace. They knitted it and finally they used a leather string to beable to wear it on the neck. Pupils had fun with this workshop and produced nice hearts for themselves and their friends. They were really creative and concentrated. Copper is an important metal and in the past the copper mines of this region were very well known all over the world

they had fun, socialized, created necklaces, worked thin copper wires