During our first visit to ‘Gébárti Kézművesek Háza’[1] we are shown into a room for weaving. Our tour guide tells us that this is where his rivals work. While standing in the room we are invited to join his group that meets every Friday at 5pm to work together and make things (weaving?)
On Friday evening we bike there and go into the weaving room. We tell someone that during the week we were invited here and we are moved onto the next room (but before stepping out the door we are told that if no one speaks English or German in the next room to come straight back and they will help). We walk into the next room and there we are greeted immediately and shown without a second second where to leave our coats.
We spend the evening making leather bracelets with deer bone clasps tied with monkey fist knots.
[1] Gébárti Kézművesek Háza is a center for Hungarian traditional crafts. It is the only center of its kind that is open all year and not just in the summer. http://www.zalanepmuveszet.hu/Kezm.Haza.progr/KezmuvHazaProgram.html