Handmade 1

Unleash your creativity!

Work with your hands and find your personal style

NB: Remember that at this school, you choose 2 LINES! You get more variety in your daily life and can tailor your year. See the possibilities.

What is the difference between Handmade 1 and Handmade 2?
Handmade 1 and Handmade 2 are nearly identical lines, so you should only choose one of these, which you combine with another line with us.

The difference between Handmade 1 and Handmade 2 is that Handmade 1 has three more class hours per week, which allows for a bit more time to delve deeper into the subjects. Additionally, the study trip to Morocco is about 5 days longer (approx. 17 days for Handmade 1 and approx. 12 days for Handmade 2). The study trip to Spain is the same length for both lines.

A creative everyday life

Do you want a daily life filled with creative joy?

In this line, you can use your hands and create your own products. And best of all: You don’t need any prior experience. You’ll learn everything from scratch!

Make beautiful cups, bowls, plates, pitchers, and vases in ceramics
Sew your own clothes, such as trousers, shirts, hoodies, jackets, or dresses
Upcycle (redesign) used clothes in your personal style
Knit a beautiful wilderness sweater, mittens, wool socks, or a hat
Create beautiful prints in linocut
Learn to make coffee like a true barista

Focus areas:

Ceramics / Clay
Fabric
Yarn
Redesign
Linocut prints
Barista

Materials we work with

Main Focus Areas

1. CERAMICS

You will learn various ceramic techniques, such as throwing, modeling, and sculpting, and get to create your own unique items. Add your personal touch to what you’ve made by glazing it, before it’s fired into a beautiful product you can use yourself. Or perhaps give as a gift?

2. TEXTILES

How cool would it be to learn to sew your own clothes? Make your own trousers, shirts, sweaters, jackets, or dresses, and get a more sustainable wardrobe? You don’t need any prior experience with a sewing machine, and you’ll be surprised at what you can achieve!

3. REDESIGN

We’ll visit thrift stores and find used clothes that you can upcycle and personalize. At Handmade, you can come as a beginner and learn fundamental skills that you can develop as far as you wish.

In addition, we also cover

4. Knitting

Knitting has become very popular. Do you want to join the trend and learn how to knit a beautiful sweater, scarf, balaclava, hat, mittens, wool socks, or anything else you desire? We explore various yarn types and you’ll learn different techniques from scratch.

5. Linocut

Linocut printing is a popular form of printing that involves carving a design into a linoleum block and printing the image onto paper. You can create creative and beautiful images, cards, or small, fine items for a scrapbook, if you have one. With linocut printing, you can create beautiful works of art with few tools.

6. Barista

Do you want to learn to make coffee like a pro? We have a real espresso machine where you can learn “latte art” and create artistic expressions in coffee. You can experiment to find out which coffee beans you like best, and perhaps be inspired to get a part-time job as a barista when you go to university?

7. Woodturning

We also have a woodturning course where you can turn your own cup, bowl, or candlestick. Students in the program have been surprised by how much fun this is, and how many beautiful things they have managed to create in wood.

Surprisingly fun with woodturning

Learn barista skills

Find your style

Sew your own clothes

Morocco

Join us in Marrakech and on a journey around Morocco!

The trip takes place in October and offers lots of colors and inspiration for your work, especially in ceramics and textiles. We visit local markets where there’s a buzz of life, smells, colors, and impressions. You’ll get to ride a camel in the desert, enjoy beautiful sunsets, and delicious aromatic spiced food.

Barcelona

Let Gaudí inspire you when we travel to Barcelona in January.

Find inspiration in Barcelona’s colorful landscape and some of the world’s most iconic artworks.

We visit famous artworks around Barcelona, participate in creative workshops with Spanish artisans, and get opportunities to transform ideas into art. Here we also hunt for local second-hand shops, while searching for the best coffee shop in the city.

Who is this line for?

Handmade is for you who want to explore your creative abilities. You don’t need prior experience with the materials, just the joy of creating your own things that you can use yourself, or bring joy to others.

What you will learn

Sew your own clothes
Make beautiful products in clay and wood
Learn to knit and crochet
Explore your creative abilities
Barista skills
Travel in a group

Create your dream year

NB: Remember that at this school, you choose 2 LINES! You can tailor your year and combine this line with another line.

See all the possibilities

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does the price of Handmade cover?

The price includes an international trip to Morocco and Barcelona. Access to all line equipment, consumption of all materials for ceramics, linocut, recycled fabric, and coffee are also included. New materials for clothes, fabric, and yarn must be paid for by the individual. On our trips, a minimum of half board is included. However, we reserve the right to change prices due to circumstances beyond the school’s control, such as significant changes in airfares, exchange rates, fuel costs, government regulations, security situations, war, unrest, or cancellations in transport services. In such cases, it may be necessary to adjust the price to carry out the trip. The school will then strive to limit the cost increase as much as possible. If the price increase exceeds 10% of the line price, the student will have the right to withdraw from the trip without further costs.
Is folk high school expensive?
Some believe that folk high school is expensive, but it is significantly cheaper to live in a dormitory at a folk high school than to rent a student room.

With us, you get your own room, access to a washing machine and dryer, a kitchenette with a refrigerator and stove, common rooms, a fitness room, a gym, and other activity rooms, and prepared meals 4 times a day.
Is this line right for me?
The line is suitable for everyone who is creative or wants to improve their handicraft skills!