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Textile & Traditional Handcraft

  • Course length: All year
  • Course teaching amount: 15 hours/week
  • Price: from 146 950,-
  • Foundation:
    Liberal
    The liberal folk high schools are built on values that are not based on one particular belief. They encourage students with different interests and beliefs to apply.
  • Food: Vegetarian, vegan
    Most schools will accommodate food allergies and other dietary needs. If you have questions, please contact the school directly.
  • Environmental certification:
    DebioFairtrade
  • Location: Rissa
  • Study tour: Høstutfart, Vårutfart

Create beautiful things with nature's resources and traditional techniques: weaving, tanning, basketry, plant dyeing, woodwork and sewing. A whole year of craft, creativity and the joy of creation.

We believe that the old ways of crafting and creating will play a big role in the future. We believe that Slow Craft will become more and more important as things only get faster and faster.

Taking your time to create things from scratch, with local, sustainable, natural materials is good for the soul. It gives you time to breathe and is grounding, maybe just what we modern people need?

The year can contain:

Classes are held in Norwegian. International students are welcome to apply, but are expected to learn Norwegian.

Fosen Folk School is internationally recoginized as a Craft school. Here you will learn to make things from scratch, usually with material found in nature and old techniques. The boat building class will fell the very trees they'll use to build thier boats. And those on the Handwork line will spin and knit with yarn from the school's sheep, and can color that yarn with moss and heather.

We like to call ourselves a self-reliancy school. In a time when so much of that around us is made by someone else we want to teach you to be independant and self-reliant, without giving in to consumerism. We believe that everyone who can should grown more of their own food, fish more, and consume and throw away less. Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.

Self-reliance runs through both our courses, and our electives. In Mini-house building you will learn to build an enviormentally friendly, energy efficient house. In Farming you will learn to grow your own food, and raise animals, on a small scale. In Self-reliance you will learn to repair clothes and equipment, grow your own food, and make all sorts of different things. In this way you can consume less, while living in either the town or the country.

Our school has it's own organic farm with animals and vegetables. A majority of the meat and vegetables we eat comes from our farm, giving us a unique relationship to the food we eat and the ingredients we use. We try to serve locally produced food as much as possible.

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