Pierre-Alain Capt and Fiona Moro, both archeo-ceramists, will reconstruct the workshop of an ancient potter. They will offer both a firing of ceramics in the large oven of the park, as well as demonstrations of shooting using a stick turn like those found in the iconography of that time.
On the blacksmith’s workshop, a key craftsman of medieval society, a coal-fired furnace will allow to see the iron ore gradually transform into a mass of crude metal, which will eventually be extracted from the furnace to be beaten long to become a bar of metal forged. Will also be presented the thousand everyday objects produced by blacksmiths: knives, weapons of soldiers, tools of peasants, arrowheads, candlesticks...
A little further on, a woodsman will tell the legends of a trade attested from the Gaulish period and until the last war. Through the manufacture of a bowl, a spoon or a stool, he will present the use of simple but powerful tools such as the pole-turned, plane and bench to hover, the herminette and doloire. What a pleasure to see, from a log, appear an object with each blow of axe, knife or turn!
The weekend will also be an opportunity to discover tabletterie, or the art of shaping objects in bone, horn or antler, to attend a bronze casting or to understand the world of vegetable dyes with historical techniques of course.
Many workshops will be accessible continuously and allow everyone to try their hand at weaving, stone cutting, the realization of a candle, ceramic or mosaic.
Guided tours of the park’s recreations will be offered several times over the two days.