Potter · Course
Dublin Pottery Making
A beginners wheel throwing course in a Smithfield studio where you leave with several pieces fired and glazed.
Dublin, Ireland
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17 real places across 17 crafts. Classes, workshops and people worth meeting.
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Distiller · Workshop
Pearse Lyons Distillery
You tour the brewhouse, fermenters and pot stills on James's Street, then sit down with the distillery team to build and bottle a blend of your own.
Dublin, Ireland
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Letterpress Printer · Workshop
National Print Museum
The museum's adult workshop programme starts you at the type case, then puts you on an Adana 8x5 to print your own card.
Dublin, Ireland
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Every place in Dublin
Potter
Human AuthorshipA wheel, some mud, a teacher's hands over yours. Two hours where your phone doesn't matter.
Distiller
Human AuthorshipA still, a clear run of spirit, and a maker who decides by nose and taste exactly where the good part begins and ends.
Letterpress Printer
Human AuthorshipInk, metal, and pressure. A page you can feel with your fingertips, made by a person.
Silversmith
Human AuthorshipA silversmith raises a flat sheet into a vessel, one measured hammer blow at a time.
Barista
Body & PresenceYour name, your usual, and ninety seconds of care poured slowly.
Baker
Body & PresenceUp before the town, hands in the dough, so the morning smells like somewhere.
Chocolatier
Human AuthorshipBitter bean, human patience, and a shine you only get if a person got the temperature exactly right.
Brewer
Human AuthorshipGrain, water, hops and yeast, tended by someone who knows when to trust the tank and when to taste.
Beekeeper
Trust & JudgmentTens of thousands of lives in one box, and a person who tends them without ever giving an order.
Falconer
Trust & JudgmentA wild bird that could leave forever chooses, each time, to come back to the glove.
Pasta maker
Human AuthorshipA person turns flour, eggs, and patience into ribbons that taste like the hands that rolled them.
Rock Climbing Guide
Body & PresenceThe trusted hand on the rope who reads the rock and your nerve so you can look up and just climb.
Candle Maker
Human AuthorshipMelted wax, a length of wick, and hands that pour a small steady light you can set on any table.
Shepherd
Trust & JudgmentSomeone whose whole day is the safety of animals that cannot look after themselves.
Upholsterer
Human AuthorshipThe person who takes a tired old chair down to the frame and gives it another fifty years.
Bicycle Mechanic
Body & PresenceThe person who sends you back out on a bike that feels brand new.
Publican
Among HumansThe pour is a craft, but the real work is knowing the room and everyone in it.
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