You'll be met at the airport and brought straight to our home, where snacks and drinks are welcome you while you settle in.

Once everyone's arrived, we shake off the journey with an unhurried walk through the Eixample — a typical Spanish Sunday — guided by architect Brian Gallagher of the B-Guided design guide. We end the evening at Cafè del Centre, a 19th-century Catalan institution, over aperitivo and live jazz — the first of many conversations about what we're here to make...followed by a leisurely Catalan dinner.

We take a leisurely walk after breakfast of Catalan pa amb tomaquet and explore the Gothic with Suzanne Wales (writer of Hand Made Spain) or her partner Brian (if she is not available). We will visit the shops of some amazing artisans... the oldest apothecary, a jeweler, see one the oldest and quintessential shoe workshops in Spain, and visit Barcelona's oldest shop where they still make candles.  

Lunch at Santa Caterina market or the alleys of the old Jewish Quarter (El Call).

Back at our home workshop, I talk through the history and material choices in handmade shoes.  You'll then dye your first pieces of leather. 

Freetime at dinner or as the group decides.

We start our day with a home session learning the meditative craft of batik on silk.  Then we head into the oldest part of Barcelona to historic Raval to visit Catu and Ignacio's shoemaking workshop — a completely different approach to the craft, full of innovation and creativity rooted in tradition. La Boqueria market for a tour as we gather ingredients for our Paella making class for our dinner.

The morning you've been building toward — we cut into your leather and begin constructing your own Sevilla Smith shoes. It's a long, satisfying studio day (with a relaxed pica pica lunch built in) as the pieces slowly become a pair.

In the late afternoon, we shift to sandal-making, learning the menorquina, a classic Catalan design.

Freetime after you are done with your menorquinas.

We are picked up and head to a home workshop in the hills to learn about indigo dyeing and fermenting.  I will have some local pieces for you to dye, but also bring pieces of your own (just make sure they have been washed 5x). 

Then we head to Barcelona's only vineyard for a lunch and then an full afternoon among the vines and olive groves, where we will work with local aromatic plants gathered in the summer to create an autumn oil blend for the body. We will explore the physical, emotional and skincare benefits of the wild plants to hand and take home a botanical skincare blend.

The vineyard is also where we learn more about their grape cultivating source and process.  We have dinner at the vineyard farmhouse.

A bustling day in the city — a tapestry-weaving session in the morning where we learn about weaving and elevate it as illustration. 

Then we head to Gracia to make jewelry or own jewelry: rings, bracelet, earrings...whichever you choose.  Silver is provided.

We can have dinner in Gracia neighborhood, or you can opt for freetime.

We begin with the history and technique of bobbin lace — one of the oldest and most hypnotic crafts in Catalonia. The afternoon is left open: pack, wander, or finish anything on your Barcelona list. In the evening, a farewell dinner of Kamayan, a traditional Filipino meal eaten by hand with friends — a fitting close to a week built on making things together.