Crafts to discover Champagne-Ardenne

Created in 1890, the foundry was taken up by Léon Rollinger in 1945. After several changes of direction, she was picked up by the staff in February 2012, to become a Scop, the Fonderie Nouvelle Rollinger, retaining the name of his very former transferee. The foundry today manufactures hardware, industry parts, art and decorative parts (Artfea Range), including personalized medals.

Carolyn Rogers specializes in stained glass (it restores heritage jewels), but is also a talented designer. In his workshop, in the heart of the city, she has a great deal of interest in the transmission of knowledge and ancestral gestures, which is remarkable. It offers a number of individual or collective internships throughout the year, addressing both the novice and a knowledgeable audience. She also performs the torch-spun glass demonstrations. Workshop visits are made by appointment.

The workshop of Natacha Roche Fontaine, ceramist and salish, refugee at Barbuise-Courtavant offers vases, bowls, dishes, bowls, Advent crowns decorated with engobes, enamel and cracked. We also have beautiful lamps, photophores. The workshop is open to the public, but it is better to call before. Halfway between crafts, goldsmith, painting, the artist also organizes courses for children's pottery in summer.

Let us admit that we have a low for sculptures, rakus and beautiful necklaces.

The Royer family really works to perpetuate the heritage. And with the installation of the sixth generation, Jean-Louis and his wife Edith, the tuilery is taking the cake. She was passionate about pottery, and she installed his workshop, alongside the manufacture of craft tiles with tours and demonstrations, at small prices. So we can discover the tiles made by Jean-Louis, and Edith's works: nest boxes, oils, Middle Ages… The rooms are all baked. Royer tuilery organizes traineeships or refreshments during holidays. If you are lucky, you will arrive at the time of the "big fire": A large oven is lit for nine days for cooking 100 m ³ of tiles. Impressive!