Year-round course (two semesters)
Historical handicraft – Mexico
Do you want to travel to Mexico and learn colorful and beautiful crafts? Do you want to become a multi-talented artist? Do you want to try your hand at everything from blacksmithing and carpentry, to plant dyeing and weaving?
Then is Historical handicraft – Mexico the course for you!
Broad knowledge
On Historical handicraft You will be introduced to many different crafts and different materials. In other words, you will not become an expert in one material, but rather you will get to try out many different ones. We mainly use traditional tools and have a sense of reuse and repair. You will make many beautiful things that you will take home.
the course is run in collaboration with Stiklestad National Cultural Center which is a 20 minute drive from the school, and we have classes both there and in the workshops at the school. The workshops at Sund 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, and get to try our hand at the role of mediator.
The content of the course varies a little from year to year, depending on the students' interests. We learn from each other and try our best. Often we work with a technique for a week before moving on to something else.
Photographer: Eric Roy Brandvik-Hansen, Sofie Røssland Berrefjord and students at the course.
More about the course
The content of the course can vary slightly from year to year, depending on the students' interests. We learn from each other and try our best. Often we work with a technique for a week before moving on to something else.
This is some of what we typically work with:
- Make a knife, with a blade you forge yourself
- Plant dyeing
- Weaving ribbons
- Forging
- Carpentry
- Never work
- Sewing in sheepskin
- Weaving on floor looms
- Pewter casting and jewelry making
- Needle binding
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.
Learn from the community
Life on Sund is diverse. You will discover and develop new aspects of yourself. By exploring new crafts and working closely together, you will learn a lot about how you work with others, and you will discover new interests both within crafts, but not least through the community and the common subjects at school.
Mexico
In the spring we will travel to Mexico on a three-week study trip. There we will be in the colorful and pleasant city of Oaxaca, and in smaller villages. Among other things, we will have a longer stay with a family that washes, spins and dyes wool, which they later use to weave traditional carpets . There we will get to try our hand at all the steps in the process.
We will also take a closer look at how to work with black clay and not least the so-called " alebrijes". » , colorful fantasy figures in wood that have a strong tradition in Oaxaca. We visit people who can show us how they work, and let us try for ourselves.
Of course, we will also explore Oaxaca city, with its exciting markets and great museums. We are preparing well for the trip. We will learn some practical Spanish, and about the country we will visit.
Tour in Norway
In the fall we take a trip of about ten days around Norway . We travel by train or car. The destination is not decided in advance, we figure it out together based on which crafts we are curious about, or if there are special places we want to visit.
On previous study trips we have taken courses, visited craftsmen and exciting museums. We have also visited the Hjerleid handicraft school in Dovre or traveled north in the country. We will find out together.
Here are some glimpses from previous study trips:
Historical handicraft -Mexico is 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 and adventurous, 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
Full-year line 2027–28
NOK 155,500,-
We do not have an application deadline and you can apply throughout the year. We start admitting students from November 15, and accept 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.
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What former students say
I was 26 years old when I attended Sund, I am Danish and took a break from medical school. The best thing about Sund was the people! Very nice people who attended the course, and the teachers Kristin and Øystein were of the highest caliber.
Skilled communicators and craftsmen.