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Half-year courses
Historical handicraft
(half-year course autumn 2026)
Do you want to become a jack of all trades? Do you want to try your hand at everything from knifemaking and leather tanning to weaving and needlepoint? Do you think a medieval farm sounds like the world's best classroom?
Then is Historical handicraft the course for you!
On Historical handicraft We work with a wide range of materials and techniques. In other words, you will not become a specialist, but will be introduced to many different crafts. We mostly use traditional tools and have a sense of reuse and repair. You will make a lot of beautiful things throughout the fall that you can take home with you!
Collaboration with Stiklestad National Cultural Center
the course run in collaboration with Stiklestad National Cultural Center which is a 20-minute drive from the school. We have classes both at Stiklestad and in the workshops at the school. At the school, the workshops are open 24 hours a day, and with inspiring classmates and teachers there are good opportunities for nice evening projects.
At the medieval farm Stiklastadir Sometimes we stay overnight in the longhouse, and get to experience what it was like to cook, live and sleep in the Viking Age. At Stiklestad we also meet other skilled museum craftsmen such as woodcarver Kai.
Photographer: Eric Roy Brandvik-Hansen, Sofie Røssland Berrefjord and students at the course.
More about the course
This is what we will do:
- Make a knife, with a blade you forge yourself
- Tanning leather
- Needle binding (“Viking knitting”)
- Weaving ribbons
- Forging
- Weaving on floor looms
- Working with wood
- Spend the night, cook and shoot with a bow and arrow at The medieval farm Stiklastadir
In addition to the techniques themselves, you will also learn a lot about the properties and history of the materials. We will also be out in nature collecting materials.
In the fall we will travel on a two-week trip. We will take a road trip in Norway or the Nordic countries by train or car. We will find out together where we are going. Maybe there is a special craft we are curious to learn, or maybe there is a special area that tempts us to visit. On previous study trips we have been all over Norway, or we have traveled to neighboring countries. Along the way we will meet knowledgeable people, take craft courses and visit exciting museums.
Historical handicraft suitable for both those who have been tinkering with crafts for a few years already, and those who are completely new. Perhaps you have tried needlework or knitting, and want to learn more, or simply become more handy and self-reliant. As long as you are curious about learning, you will be able to enjoy yourself at the course .
Øystein Viem is a teacher at the course , and also works as a museum craftsman and mediator at Stiklestad . He is committed and knowledgeable to the max, and an exceptionally versatile craftsman who does everything from knife making to fish skin tanning. He is also a pleasant person from Trøndelag, who has a freezer full of run-over animals for future tanning.
Kristin Bjørke is also a teacher at the course . She has worked at Sund for many years, and has herself been a student at the school. She ensures that the craft students get on well at Sundbobla. To weave is to live, says Kristin. Who is also very fond of recycling, gardening and embroidery.
- When I started at Historical handicraft I had very little experience with crafts. But I quickly learned that it didn't really matter how much prior knowledge you had as long as you wanted to learn and found it fun to work with your hands. So I would say that the most important thing I learned at Historical handicraft was not necessarily how to make all the different wonderful things we learn to make, but how fun and useful it is to be able to use our hands to utilize the nature around us.
Malin Johansen Trondsen
Historical handicraft 2021Students' annual plan Sund folk high school
The first day of school for the 2026–2027 school year is Saturday 22 August 2026
Sund folk high school , annual plan for the school year 2026-2027
Sund Folk High School, Annual plan – school year 2026-27
Half-year course autumn 2026
NOK 68,500,-
We don't have an application deadline and you can apply all year round. We begin admissions from November 15 (for the school year beginning the following fall), and admit students as long as there is room at the course.
Admission criteria:
- Age limit 18 years, exceptionally 18 years before the study trip
- We accept students as long as there is room on the course you apply
- We focus on motivation and interests
Application:
- Send an online application
- We'll get back to you as soon as we can
- Write a little about yourself and why you want to join Sund
- It's a good idea to apply early, even if we don't start admissions until November 15 (for the school year beginning the following fall).
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What former students say
It was really nice to take six months at Sund. I had been studying for a number of years and needed a break from theory and exams. A practical semester where I was allowed to work and learn with my hands was absolutely perfect for me.
