The 7 best workshops to do in Rennes • Wanderlix

Champêtre, festive, picturesque, Rennes is also artisanal. Don’t wait anymore and quickly discover the 7 best workshops to do in Rennes.

Rennes is located along the pedestrian streets of the historic centre, during gastronomic breaks and exchanges in bistros, in the heart of music laboratories and cultural hubs.

Open the eye, hidden between two houses with wooden pans of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, nestled in a particular hotel richly decorated or on the edge of a paved square, you will discover shells...

Among them, workshops of local craftsmen who perpetuate ancestral traditions and manual know-how full of charms. These manufacturers, driven by a lively passion, ask only to convey their love of flowers, materials, treats... Discover the best workshops to do in Rennes.

1. Cosmetics and well-being

Natural cosmetics, respectful of your skin and the environment, have the wind in stern. Rightly! In any case, it is not Anne who will say the opposite. This love of eco-responsible products likes to use the techniques swept by large industries and enhances the extremely soft formulas.

Within her workshop in Rennes, she introduces you, for 49 € and during 2h making your own shampoo. As soon as you enter his saponification laboratory, the journey begins. First, there is the enchanting smell of essential flowers and oils.

Then there is the texture of the clay and the softness of the vegetable oils. These raw materials will serve as a basis for making your soap. Then there is the color: your soap can wear the shade you want. Patience, when leaving Anne's, it will take another month to use your dry shampoo.

2. Leather

Are you on holiday in Rennes with your faithful four-legged companion? So there is no reason why he is not entitled to his little memory too! Push the doors of Caroline's splendid refuge: a workshop in the heart of nature, where horses pass and reigns absolute calm.

This passionate about manual and material work offers you to make a leather collar for your dog for 89 € . Brown, orange, black: to you to find the perfect shade to dress your pet. Through this workshop in Rennes 3:30 , you will learn the basics of leatherwork and saddlery: hand sewing technique.

3. Gourmand

Hard to resist the workshop in Rennes 2:30 proposed by Xavier, especially when you are alive and epicurean! There is only one to feel the smell of his bread coming out of the oven, listen to the scary sound of the golden crust, squeeze the mellow of the air, to literally succumb.

Put your apron on and make your own leaven bread. Your craftsman opens the doors of one of the oldest trades in the world: baker’s. With enthusiasm and passion, you perceive the secrets of the leaven and all these benefits to health, all for 60 € .

Performing tolling, shaping, grinding: all these traditional techniques that make bread so exceptional. You finally go back with your tasty product, made in the rules of art and incomparable aromas thanks to the two fermentation times.

4. Ceramic

Faience, mineral ceramic obtained through the white clay cooked at very high temperature, is an indefinable elegance. Alongside Camille, a ceramist craftsman, you learn to make and color a duo of table pieces. During 3h , she guides you, step by step, with her expert look of designer.

It takes you into its original universe and its reflection around our everyday uses of objects. In the end, you create unique pieces that will accompany all your meals or serve as a great gift for the gourmet moments of your loved ones, all for 60 € .

A workshop in Rennes around the ceramics requires a little patience since, cooking and enamelling force, it will have to come back several days later to recover your works.

5. Textile

Want an original decor and a useful object at a time? So let yourself be tempted by the design of a lampshade. This beautiful creation will serve as a superb lamp to pose, straight out of your imagination. First, choose your fabric from those offered by Aurélie.

It will take a crazy pleasure to draw you on the choice of a color in harmony with your tastes and your interior. You're not talking about polyphaning? This is the technique you will learn during this workshop in Rennes. After two hours intense, you go back with a lampshade as functional as unique for 50 € .

6. Vegetatal

The beauty of plants and nature is a universal language. To decorate your interior, bring a touch of greenery and ease, put on the elegance of a terrarium. Better yet, create this truly fascinating eco-system yourself.

This is precisely what invites you to do Frédéric during a workshop in Rennes 2:30 to 65 € . This plant designer craftsman, opens the doors of his bubble located in the heart of a natural universe.

Start by choosing the elements of your terrarium, work the assembly of the elements, respect the associations that will allow your nature to live independently... Plants, substrates, rocks and foams finally become a poetic landscape, straight out of your imagination.

7. Jewellery

A union to celebrate? Make it the most original way during a workshop in Rennes dedicated to the manufacture of alliances. In immersion in a rustic and enchanting workshop, you discover during 4h the ancestral know-how of Mathias and Nicolas.

They initiate you to the enigmatic technique of cast iron on sand, all for 490 € . Result? You go back with the famous rings symbol of your love and sealing your union. From the creation of mussels to the final punching: you will have designed everything. A unique and deeply romantic moment to spend with your half.