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
- 21Half-day cooking courses: two curries and rice
- 22Full-day courses: a five-course Sri Lankan menu
- 23Multi-day culinary residencies
- 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
- 34Clay-pot cooking classes
- 35Fresco and mural painting workshops with local artists
- 36Traditional hair-oil and herbal preparation classes
- 37Wood carving classes
- 38Lacquerware workshops
- 39Village kitchen lunches, cooked with the family
- 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