Cluster 2 of 28. Ideas 21 to 45
Sell the making, not the object
The mechanism
The craft cannot be copied and the object can. In Europe people queue to watch glass being blown and then buy the glass.
The 25 ideas
- 21Cooking classes, from a half-day of two curries and rice to a week-long residency
- 22Kite-making on the beach: build a Sri Lankan kite in the morning and fly it at sunset
- 23Your own perfume, blended from Sri Lankan cinnamon, vetiver, citronella and sandalwood oils, in a bottle with your name on it
- 24Batik workshops where you take home what you made
- 25Pottery workshops, your own signature on the base
- 26Handloom weaving demonstrations and short courses
- 27Mask-carving workshops
- 28Gem-cutting demonstrations with certified purchase
- 29Jewellery-making classes
- 30Tea-blending workshops, and your own blend packed to take away
- 31Cinnamon-peeling demonstrations on working smallholdings
- 32Coconut-processing demonstrations
- 33Spice blending, with a labelled jar of your own mix
- 34Pluck, wither and hand-roll your own tea on an estate, and take home the tea you made
- 35Fresco and mural painting workshops with local artists
- 36Traditional hair-oil and herbal preparation classes
- 37Wood-carving classes
- 38Lacquerware workshops
- 39Watch an oruwa, the outrigger fishing canoe, being built by hand, then go out in one at dawn
- 40Grandmother's Kitchen: one dish, one district, one story
- 41Brass and bronze casting in the Kandyan tradition, watched from pour to polish
- 42Dumbara mat weaving taught by the families who still do it
- 43Palm-leaf manuscript writing with a stylus, your name on an ola leaf to take home
- 44Drum-making and a drumming lesson in one afternoon
- 45Toddy tapping at dawn, watched from the ground, with breakfast after