small group · half-day including travel to the Gutachtal · on request
The Bollenhut Maker
Les Artisans
The Bollenhut Maker
Fourteen woollen pompoms weighing up to two kilograms, red for the unmarried and black for the married women: the Bollenhut is the region’s best-known piece of traditional dress, and it is still made by hand – by only a few women.
In the Gutachtal
One of them opens her workshop for you in the Gutachtal, just under an hour from here. You watch a pompom take shape and wind one yourself. It is harder than it looks and that is precisely the point.
Your pompom
What you have made travels home with you: your own pompom, a keepsake from an afternoon that does not usually take place for visitors.
