The 8 best workshops to do in Metz-Nancy • Wanderlix

Do you want to initiate a craft activity? Don’t hesitate anymore and discover the best workshops in Metz-Nancy!

Located 60km from each other, the cities of Metz and Nancy have the charm of the cities of the East that you like to discover on foot. Beautiful places with small streets, including local shops and other gastronomic restaurants, Metz and Nancy have something to do to amaze people.

In Metz-Nancy, the quality of local crafts is no longer to be done. In addition to being diversified, this craft is very accessible. Some craftsmen open the doors of their workshop for an hour or an afternoon. The goal? Make you discover and learn their know-how.

If you have the artistic soul and the desire to learn, Wanderlix has selected for you the eight best workshops to do in Metz-Nancy.

1. Textile

Want to prepare for your wedding or for a friend? So don’t hesitate to sign up for Rémi’s workshop in Nancy to make your custom knot-papillon! Formed at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Rémi let his natural creativity speak to specialize in the node-papillon, the chic accessory par excellence.

During 2h at the rate 100 € for two people, Rémi will welcome you in the good mood and will give you some quick courses of stylism. Then come the time of the knot-pap’. Whether it’s unified or on a pattern, you’ll make all the steps you’ve made in the making of a knot. Let your creativity start with two custom knots designed by your care!

2. Drink

The workshop skates at Angélique

With this workshop to be done in Metz-Nancy, specifically in Thionville, you will learn from Angélique the wooden patina. For those who discover this term, it is about artificially aged a piece of furniture to give it an old but stylish side.

During 1:30 at the rate 30 € By person, Angélique will give you all the tricks to skate a piece of furniture. You will start with new knowledge, your skating samples to reproduce everything you have learned about your own home furniture!

The furniture makeover workshop at Angélique

This workshop in Metz-Nancy is also held by Angélique. Here too, we are in the wood and furniture theme. You will learn how to use skates to restore your furniture.

This time, the focus is on the complete restoration of one of your furniture, which you will have the opportunity to bring. During 6h , in three meetings of 2h at the rate 100 € By person, Angélique will give you all the basics of the restoration of furniture. At the end of this beautiful workshop in Metz-Nancy, you will leave with your little furniture relooked.

3. Alcool

The whisky workshop at Jonas

This workshop in Metz-Nancy allows you to enter the amazing domain of Rozelieures. Heiress of the Grallet-Dupic family, Sabine transformed the old family farm into a whisky distillery! A fairly rare example of 100% French whisky whose family masters the whole of its production.

During 2h at the rate 75 € It is Jonas who will teach you all the techniques of whisky distillation and will give you a tour of the chais where the whisky of the distillery is stored. Of course, this workshop wouldn’t make any sense if you don’t assemble your own whisky! This will be done and you will even have the opportunity to bottle it with personalized labelling.

The workshop brewing at Theo

If you like artisanal beer, this workshop in Metz-Nancy is for you! With Theo, a artisan brewer, you will learn all the technique of brewing beer and make it. You will do everything from A to Z, from the crushing of the grains to the bottle, to the weighing of the hops.

During 4h at the rate 60 € per person, you can make up to 10 litres of beer. Of course, you'll take them with you to fry in the evening!

4. Cosmetics and well-being

Want to have nice scented candles? Choose this workshop in Metz-Nancy with Virginia and Marine, always in a good mood! The two inseparable, the craftsmen behind the scenes, created their own workshop in 2018.

During 2h at the rate 45 € per person, Virginia and Marine will teach you to make scented candles to fit into the decoration of your interior. You will choose the fragrance and decoration of your candles and, if you wish, you can ornate them with shells or dried flowers!

5. Pottery

This workshop in Metz-Nancy allows you to make your own porcelain jewelry. During 2h and for 50 € per person, Marine will train you to make your pine’s in porcelain.

All personal inspirations are welcome to help Marine guide you on the shape, volume or color of your jewel. Since porcelain is a hard to work material, you can make several models that you will get under 3 to 4 weeks. This is necessary for drying the earth.

6. Verre

We finish our selection of workshops to be done in Metz-Nancy with this workshop that will allow you to make your glass accessory. It is Theophile, artisan verrier, who, during 2:30 at the rate 100 € per person will be your trainer.

During your training in glass art, you will choose the accessory you are going to create: pen, decapper or cap... everything is possible! Then you will handle the slum to make your future custom object. Theophile will cook it and you can recover it a few days later to expose it to your home!