On Jet Line Screens: Project Workshops

Craftsmanship, the oldest and for millennia the only form of making things and providing services. Known forever, rediscovered in cities in recent years. Blacksmithing, jewelry making, shoemaking, carpentry, leatherworking, tailoring. Small workshops are passed on to new hands or established from scratch. They have a modern approach and know how to talk about their ideals. Their workshops are located in gateways, in post-industrial halls, or in new, loft-like spaces in various city districts.
We have apprentices, journeymen, and masters around us; we have workshops, studios, and manufactories. Finally, we have places that support them and uphold craft traditions. Meet Project Workshops.

Project Workshops is an initiative by a group of craft enthusiasts. It's a team of photographers led by Małgorzata Herman - the author of interviews and texts appearing on the portal - which showcases phenomenal workshops hidden in urban nooks. The group tells the stories of people involved in handcrafting. It encourages others to deepen their knowledge about traditional manufacturing techniques. It also collaborates with organizations in Poland and abroad that promote handcrafting.

How Things Can and should be Made

Małgosia Herman:
Visiting each workshop is a wonderful adventure. It's an opportunity to interact with materials and techniques that we don't have access to on a daily basis. Getting to know the world of craftsmanship that we don't practice, but explore in the tiniest details. We hope that what we do in Project Workshops allows people to understand how the things around us can and should be made.

Collaboration with Jet Line is a wonderful opportunity for us to reach a wider audience with the idea of Project Workshops. We want to familiarize people with the processes of designing and manufacturing quality and original products by Polish creators. To tell their stories and show the spaces where they create. These are fantastic and incredibly creative people whose activities everyone should know about. Our heroes handcraft beautiful everyday objects that can serve us for years.

The collaboration between Jet Line and Project Workshops began in September and will continue until the end of the year. Among the craftsmen featured in the spots, you could have seen ceramicists, carpenters, jewelers, leatherworkers, a blacksmith, and a glassmaker. For the upcoming campaign, Project Workshops has invited, among others, Andrzej Bero, artist Ida Karkoszka, as well as Andrzej Włodarczyk's Piano Workshop, Square Drop, and AVA Volumes. Among the creations, you'll also be able to see craftsmen whose interviews are yet to appear on the Project Workshops website. This will include, among others, Tomasz Pietrzak's shoemaking workshop.

Andrzej Bero, photo by Natalia Miedziak-Skonieczna

AVA Volumes, photo by Radek Zawadzki

You can support Project Workshops on Patronite https://patronite.pl/ProjektPracownie and see other Workshops and other implementations of what you'll see on Jet Line screens on Instagram MORE_by_JetLine