Hand-made

Devich‘s wooden shoes

All sorts of specialist craft items are created in workshops and studios. Items made by expert craftspeople and artisans are available in a number of shops, generally straight from the producers.

Werkraum craftsmanship (→ page 82) The range of products in the Werkraumhaus shop covers items from firms that are members of the Bregenzerwald Werkraum, such as felt baby swings, wooden toys, chopping boards, pepper mills, stools and much more. Books on crafts and architecture are also available. Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch www.werkraum.at Toboggans Anton Bereuter makes leisure and sport toboggans from local wood. Anton Bereuter, Alberschwende www.handwerkholz.at Local ash wood is cut down in the winter months when the moon is right and air-dried for two years – and then used to make sports or family toboggans. Gebrüder Johler, Alberschwende www.johler-rodel.at

Jewellery In her smithy, Christina Fetz-Eberle designs and makes jewellery from stainless steel and stones. Glanzstück Schmuckwerkstatt, Hittisau www.glanzstueck.at

Wooden shoes Some people wear them in the shed, others wear them in the city. The Devich family has been making wooden shoes – clogs, boots and sandals – for four generations. The materials – wood, leather and hide – are always different, and so each pair is unique. Devich Holzschuherzeugung, Hittisau www.holzschuhe.at “Werk Schönes” – wooden objects The ‘Werk Schönes’ (‘Workshop of Beautiful Things’) family of products includes small, beautiful, practical and playful objects as well as award-winning pieces manufactured at the Holzwerkstatt Faißt in Hittisau. Onlineshop: www.holz-werkstatt.com Atelier: Holzwerkstatt Markus Faißt Nussbaum 361, Hittisau

Leisure toboggan, Anton Bereuter Handwerkholz, Alberschwende

Working in clay The KreativWerkstatt is a pottery workshop where the clay works are completed by raku firing. It’s possible to knead, shape, mill and fire ideas in clay here. Information, workshops & exhibition Petra Raid, Langenegg www.raid-petra.at

Bregenzerwald toys Wooden toys like crane trucks, doll’s houses, gaming tables and even dentist‘s chairs are being manufactured from locally available beechwood in „sheltered workshops“ by people with special needs. Onlineshop: www.holzspielzeug-undmehr.at Shop: Bahnhof 148,Bezau

Lamps Bregenzerwald designer Anna Claudia Strolz creates lighting systems and also makes some of the lampshades herself at her studio in Bregenz. Some of the designs are produced in cooperation with Bregenzerwald tradespeople. Shop & Studio, Bregenz www.strolzleuchten.at Textiles Women who are reinstating and reinterpreting old methods of hand-crafting fabrics can be found working at this textile workshop. Initiator Martha Niederacher and her colleagues also arrange courses. In felting and weaving, for example, as well as in spinning, embroidery and willow weaving. Martha Niederacher, Krumbach www.textil-werkstatt.at

Pfiffiges („smart things“) Roland Bär and his family as well as creative partners manufacture sustainable products: cheese, spirits, liqueurs, meat as well as wooden toys, lamps, small items of furniture and decorative items. Onlineshop: www.pfiffiges.at Farmshop: Kalchern 65, Andelsbuch

Retail addresses and more information about the subject is available at www.bregenzerwald.at → Menu “Shopping”

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