2World Textiles and Craft Tours

Our textiles and craft tours are guided by a desire not to impact on local communities but to tip toe into the lives of those we visit and share with them our love of textiles, traditional crafts and cultures. Our unique itineraries are not your standard sight seeing tour but provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself in local crafts and culture without having to be constantly on the move. Our tours are all about getting to know the local culture and crafts and bringing home new skills and an appreciation of traditional textiles and crafts.

SMALL GROUP TOURS

Our small group tours of only 10 ensure you experience your destination in a unique and personal way. Our tours are all about immersion in local cultures, crafts and textiles. On our textiles and craft immersion tours we base ourselves in 1 or 2 locations and simply unpack and relax and get to know the locals, the neighbourhood, the local artisans, the food and what really makes a place tick. On our textiles and craft explorer tours are designed to provide travellers with a broader look at a destination but still retaining a focus on local crafts and communities and hands-on classes.

New - Australia and New Zealand Textile and Craft Trails

Its time to re-emerge and share something creative. Join us on one of our great new Australian and New Zealand textiles and craft creative escapes and celebrate the beauty of the country and support local artisans and communities.

Creative Escape - Gold Coast
6 night small group textiles and craft immersion tour
Postponed until 2021
Escape to the beautiful beaches of the Gold Coast for a week of creative workshops. Staying in beachfront apartments we will share lots of great hands-on workshops including: intensive shibori and indigo dyeing; sashiko techniques; journal and paper making; slow stitching and core basket weaving
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New Zealand Textile Trails
14 night small group textiles and craft adventure tour
Departs: April 2021
Ex;pore the amazing scenery and get creative with some of New Zealand's best fibre artists. Lots of hands-on classes including flax weaving, felting, weaving and wool embroidery.
Visit craft markets, textile galleries and museums and some of New Zealand's iconic fabric and quilting shops
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Creative Escape - Ballina
6 night small group textiles and craft immersion tour
Postponed until 2021
A week long retreat packed full of hands-on classes including: extracting and making eco dyes, eco bundle dyeing, Nuno felting, paper making and Japanese book binding; random wicker weaving and fabric screen printing.

South East Asia Textile and Craft Trails

Laos Textiles & Craft Retreat

11 day small group textiles and craft immersion tour
Luang Prabang, Laos
Departs: 5th October 2021 *
Subject to COVID-19 travel restrictions
$3,650 per person twin share
Join us on this fantastic tour, jammed pack with lots of hands on crafts from natural dyes to silk and cotton weaving, traditional Hmong embroidery, Hmong batik, pottery, bamboo weaving and paper-making. Learn how to make traditional noodles and take a cooking class in a heritage home. You'll get to experience village life when we spend 2 days in a traditional cotton weaving village learning about how they create their beautiful textiles and make their traditional dyes.
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Hands on Textiles & Craft of Laos and Cambodia

12 day small group textiles and craft immersion tour
Siem Reap, Cambodia/ Luang Prabang, Laos
Departs: 20th March & 6th November 2021 * Subject to COVID-19 travel restrictions
$4,550 per person twin share
This tour is jammed pack with hands-on craft and textiles classes and cultural activities including silk weaving, natural dyes, shibori, paper making; bamboo weaving; batik; recycled crafts and traditional Hmong embroidery, traditional cooking). Explore the ancient temples of Angkor and the emerging textiles and crafting community of Siem Reap. Get to know the locals and explore World heritage Luang Prabang and its amazing temples, textiles and markets.
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Hands on Thailand

9 day small group tour textiles and craft immersion tour
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Departs: 29th January & 24th November 2021
* Subject to COVID-19 travel restrictions
$ 3,600 per person twin share
Experience the magic of amazing Chiang Mai and its rich craft and textiles culture. Lots of hands on craft from sashiko embroidery and pattern making, Hmong embroidery, batik stamping and canting, natural dyes, palm weaving, shibori, traditional paper sculpture. Get to know what makes this fascinating city tick when you visit its temples and markets and learn about its unique and famous foods when you take a traditional cooking class.

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Hands on Textiles & Craft of Vietnam

12 day small group textiles and craft explorer tour
Hanoi/Sapa/Hoi An, Vietnam
Departs: 3rd March & 1st September 2021 * Subject to COVID-19 travel restrictions
$4,290 per person twin share
This fabulous new adventure tour has lots of hands-on craft classes including conical hat making, lacquerware, natural dyes, tribal embroidery, calligraphy, silk lantern making and traditional cooking. Explore the museums and 1000 year old shopping district of Hanoi before travelling to the mountains of Sapa where we spend time living in a traditional tribal village and from here we travel down to the picturesque town of Hoi An where we explore its crafts and silk industry.
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INDEPENDENT TEXTILE AND CRAFT TOURS

Our independent or tailor-made tours allow you to travel when it best fits with you. You pick your travel dates and we do the rest.

SMALL GROUP TOURS

New - Australia and New Zealand Textile and Craft Trails

South East Asia Textile and Craft Trails

Laos Textiles & Craft Retreat

Hands on Textiles & Craft of Laos and Cambodia

Hands on Thailand

Hands on Textiles & Craft of Vietnam

INDEPENDENT TEXTILE AND CRAFT TOURS

Crafty Cambodia

Shuttles & Spindles of Laos

Lao Textiles Adventure

Threads & Stitches of Laos

Discover Lao Textiles & Temples