Traditional Crafts Deep Dive

8 Days

Learn nomadic craftsmanship, make real pieces, and bring Mongolia’s patterns home.

Craft residency-style travel with tangible outputs. Five living traditions taught by the people who still work in them, and you leave with objects you made yourself rather than objects you bought.

  • Duration: 8 days (extends to 10 for deeper creation)
  • Best season: June to September, September best
  • Difficulty: Low to medium, workshop-heavy
  • Group size: 2 to 12 guests
  • Style:
  • Culture and Crafts

What this journey includes

  • Five core traditions: ger craft, felt, leather and tack, painted woodwork, and silverwork
  • Hands-on creation with pieces you keep
  • A pattern library and material sample cards to take home
  • High-content, low-fitness days suited to working at a bench
  • Direct access to working artisans rather than demonstrations

Who it is for

Designers, makers, craft lovers, cultural travellers and study groups.

At a glance

Detail

Information

Duration

8 days (extends to 10 for deeper creation)

Best season

June to September, September best

Difficulty

Low to medium, workshop-heavy

Group size

2 to 12 guests

Regions

Ulaanbaatar, Central Mongolia

Activities

Crafts Workshop, Nomadic Homestay, Photography

Day by day

An indicative route. Every departure is private, so the order, the pace and the overnight stops can all be changed around your dates.

Arrival transfer and an introduction to the week: five traditions, what you will make in each, and what goes home with you.
Overnight: Ulaanbaatar. Meals: dinner.

A working silversmith’s studio in the city. Chasing, stamping and the pattern vocabulary that runs through every other craft you will see this week.
Overnight: Ulaanbaatar. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Out to the countryside for raw wool, and the full felt process from washing to rolling. Physical work, and the reason felt costs what it costs.
Overnight: Steppe camp. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

How a ger is actually built, with the carpenter who builds them. Lattice walls, roof poles and the painted crown, which is where the woodwork tradition concentrates.
Overnight: Steppe camp. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Saddlery and tack with a working leatherworker. Tooling, stitching and a small piece of your own to finish.
Overnight: Steppe camp. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Pigment, pattern and the geometry behind it. This is the day the pattern library you take home starts to make sense as a system rather than a set of motifs.
Overnight: Steppe camp. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

A full day on one piece of your own, in whichever discipline caught you. An informal showcase in the evening with the artisans who taught you.
Overnight: Steppe camp. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Return transfer, with your finished work packed for travel and the material sample cards to take home.
Overnight: Ulaanbaatar. Meals: breakfast.

Available upgrades

Private time with a master craftsperson in the discipline you want to go deepest in.

Studio-style shots of everything you made, plus a short film of the process.

A closing exhibit evening where the group’s work is displayed and discussed.

Frequently asked questions

This route is rated Low to medium, workshop-heavy. Designers, makers, craft lovers, cultural travellers and study groups.

June to September, September best. We will tell you honestly if your preferred dates are a poor fit.

Yes. Every journey in the Signature Collection runs privately and can be reshaped around your dates, your group and your pace.

Ger camps, tented camps and hotels depending on the region. The Premium Camp Upgrade module can be applied to the whole route or only to the nights that matter most.

Enquire about this trip

Overview

Craft residency-style travel with tangible outputs. Five living traditions taught by the people who still work in them, and you leave with objects you made yourself rather than objects you bought.

Trip highlights

  • Five core traditions: ger craft, felt, leather and tack, painted woodwork, and silverwork
  • Hands-on creation with pieces you keep
  • A pattern library and material sample cards to take home
  • High-content, low-fitness days suited to working at a bench
  • Direct access to working artisans rather than demonstrations

You can send your enquiry via the form below.

Traditional Crafts Deep Dive
From $3300
/ Adult
From $2640
/ Child
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