Exciting about Latvia, folklore, tradition / day

« We madly love Latvia, our folk traditions and cultural heritage, so we are looking for new, exciting ways to build the riches of our cultural history every day, » says Inese Rose, founder and head of the Drabesi Manor House. To explore the material and intangible cultural heritage, with her husband Andris and daughters Baiba and Rasu in 2008, she formed the Society The Center for Traditional Culture Initiatives Box. « We realized that this is the way to go if we once have access to all the resources we need. Andris has golden hands – he can weave, dry jewelry, cook kokes, basses, wooden spoons and many more, and I – to talk and others to work, » Laughs Inese. They and Andris and they work in the Drabesi, both in Cesis and Amata County – music, organize exhibitions, concerts and festivals, organize educational seminars, hobby groups, and master classes, and once established the Giksi Dance Night Tradition.

Everything can and can

The Rose Family of the Craft House was set up in the 19th century. At the beginning of the Drabesi Manor built. It turns out that in the 1920s there was an orphanage and a school, but the school manager was Alexander Chuck.

The creative space of the Craft House is full of amazing things. Andris, who is a forest engineer by profession, admits that crafts are his heart and tree, the closest to the heart of the heart. « We met Andris in Jelgava Academy of Agriculture. I studied food technologists, he – in the forest engineers. When we got married, we moved to Cesis, Andra’s parents lived there. His father Viesturs Rose was a weaver, Andris learned to weave to weave, at Māris Jansons. Learn a new job, « Inese praises the enterprising of his spouse.