Half-year courses
Historical handicraft
(half-year course spring 2026)
Broad expertise
On Historical handicraft We have 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 spring that you will take home!
the course run in collaboration with Stiklestad National Cultural Center which is located 20 minutes drive from the school, and has 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 Stiklestad we sometimes spend the night 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
- Carpentry
- Jewelry making, such as pewter casting and glass beads
- Weaving ribbons
- Never work
- Plant dyeing
- Other woodwork
- Sew
- Stay overnight, cook, and shoot with 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.
Study tour in Norway
In the spring we are going on a week-long study trip to Norway. We will decide together where we are going, but it will be a road trip by car or train. The study trip is a great opportunity to explore crafts we wouldn't otherwise visit, or to visit museums or people who have something exciting to share.
Here you can watch the video student Hedda Lan Vøllestad made from her study trip in Norway, Germany and Denmark in the spring semester 2020:
Who is the line suitable for?
Historical handicraft suitable for those who have been tinkering with crafts for a few years already, and for 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 2024-2025
The last day of school for the 2024–25 school year is Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Half-year course spring 2026
NOK 67,100,-
School fees include:
- Accommodation in a double room at Sund fhs
- All food at Sund fhs (four meals per day) - we don't charge extra for special diets, vegetarian or vegan food
- The study trip - academic program, accommodation, food and transportation are included
- Joint school trips and excursions
- Wireless internet, copying and printing for teaching
- Use of gym, training room, rehearsal room, photo studio, darkroom
- Use of washing machines and dryers
- Expenses for the vast majority of electives
- Transport in connection with training
- Administration fee at NOK 1 250,-
All lessons are free of charge.
School fees are not included:
The materials we use for teaching are included. However, if you want to make something different/more/larger than what the teacher has planned, you must expect to pay for the extra equipment yourself.
- Deposit for key and use of equipment at NOK 1 300,-
- Single room supplement at NOK. 585,- per month for 5 months
- Pocket money for personal consumption
Loans and grants from Lånekassen
As a student on a half-year course (half-year courses) at Sund folk high school you are entitled to study support from the State Loan Fund (if you are a Norwegian citizen). In the 2025–2026 school year, you as a student (half-year course) will receive a total of NOK 75,850 in grants and loans from the State Loan Fund. Of this, 40%, i.e. NOK 30,340, will be converted into a grant once you have completed the school year and been approved.
Read more about loans and grants at www.lanekassen.no .
As soon as you have a place on Sund folk high school , you can apply for grants and loans atwww.lanekassen.no.
We do not have an application deadline, and you can apply throughout the year. We accept students as long as there is space. the course .
If you are applying for one of our half-year courses for the current school year, you should apply right away.
Admission criteria:
- Age limit 18 years.
- 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
- There is ongoing admission to the course is drunk
- If you are applying for one of our half-year courses for the current school year, you should apply right away.
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