6th EWA Study Tour

24. 03. 2025 bis 28. 03. 2025

EWA STUDYTOUR to TEXEL, The Netherlands
25th, 26th, 27th of March 2025

Organisation
Renske van den Tempel, www.texelseschapenwol.nl

Factsheet 
Day of arrival: Monday 24th  of March
Day of departure: Friday 28th of March
5- 24 participants, for EWA- members only
Assignment closes at 10th of January 2025

Costs per person:
Hotel Room single use           € 445,-
Hotel Room double use         € 445,-
Program                               EWA members € 250,-

                                           non-EWA members € 300,-
Diners and one lunch at your own expense

Woolbath optional                €   70,-
 
Program subjects
History
Presentation: How Texel became and still is a sheep- and wool island
Landscape tour with explanation
Visit to Heritage museum
Sheepfarms
Visits to a Studbook Breeder, a traditional sheepfarmer en a sheperdess
Demonstrations shearing and preparing a sheep for a show  
Working with wool
Visit to the duvetfactory Texelwool
Meeting with the members of the Texel Wool Guilt
Wool and art
Visit to an artwork and a art- installation of two Texel wool-artists
Wool and tourism
Visit to the tourist- sheepfarm
Visit to different yarn/felt/wooltextile shops
Optional
Woolbath (Relax wrapped in carded wool)

Veranstaltungsort

Texel, Netherlands