Textile & Traditional Handcraft
- Fosen Folkehøgskole – Rissa
- Telephone: (+47) 40601638
- E-mail: kontor@fosen.fhs.no
- Course length: All year
- Course teaching amount: 15 hours/week
- Price: from 146 950,-
- 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?
Classes are held in Norwegian. International students are welcome to apply, but are expected to learn Norwegian.
To ganger i året drar hele skolen på felles tur. Hver høst og vår seiler vi ut til øya der vi har sauene våre. Fellesturene er vanligvis 5 dager.
Mandatory: Yes
Price: Included in course price
Meals included per day: 3
På høsten, i september/oktober seiler vi avsted til Utsetøya, øst for Hitra, i selvbygde åpne trebåter. Her er det nordlys og stjernklart, og morild i sjøen til nattbading. Øya har store fine gressletter til lek og moro, om kvelden bål og sang. Det er ørn i lufta og masse spennede fisk i havet.
Alle på skolen er med. Vi samler villsauene våre, undersøker de og frakter noen hjem til slakting.
På turen lærer du å seile råseilbåt, å kle deg godt, om villsau, kystlandskap og livet i fjæra,. Vi fisker, spiser blåskjell og krabber.
Turen varer i 5 dager.
Mandatory: Yes
Price: Included in course price
Meals included per day: 3
Om våren drar vi igjen til Utsetøya ved Hitra for å samle villsauene våre. Nå er det kommet mange små lam. Det er varmt i lufta og grønt på trærne. Villsauen er en spesiell rase, blant annet klipper vi ikke ulla, men napper den. Så det gjør vi nå, samt at vi merker de nye lammene. Ulla tar vi med hjem, slik at du kan lage noe av den.
Så er det tid til å bade i lange lyse sommernetter, sove under open himmel, seile mer, fiske og leke. Kanskje kommer spekkhoggeren opp langs med båten på hjemturen.
Dette er avslutningsturen vi har på skolen, så alle er med.
Turen varer i 5 dager.
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.