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3 across Europe

Workshop or making

  1. Shebeke: glass without glue

    Wooden lattice and coloured glass assembled entirely by friction; the workshops still make them and will show you the joints.

    Sheki, Azerbaijan · low

  2. The Xwejni salt pans

    Rock-cut pans worked by the same family for five generations; they harvest by hand in summer and will explain it if you ask.

    Victoria, Gozo, Malta · low

  3. Haymaking with a scythe

    The meadows are cut by hand because machines would destroy them; in June the villages will show you how and it is harder than it looks.

    Viscri, Romania · low