Craft
Craft skills of all kinds have been passed from one practitioner to another throughout the ages, for their own use or for professional use. "The knowledge of the hands" is sometimes used to describe the skill which comes with long experience and can't always be described in words. It is also about the ability of the senses to determine quality, measurements, skill level or how a movement is best performed.
-
Lamprey fishing
24 August 2020Fishing for lamprey with special basket traps is a very old tradition. Smoked and salted lampreys were being supplied to the royal court as early as …
-
Hammarkullen Carnival
14 May 2020The carnival in Hammarkullen is an annual event with roots in various parts of the world. Song and dance troupes from a number of different countries…
-
Dressing of pelts/tanning
17 February 2020Knowledge of how to utilise the skin from an animal and process it is generally known as dressing of pelts/tanning. Tanning is a craft where the fini…
-
Making frieze
19 August 2019Tucking or fulling is a method for processing woollen cloth to make the fabric thicker and more durable. A processed piece of cloth is called a friez…
-
Folk costumes
30 January 2019Folk costumes as a symbol of local and national identity has been used in Sweden for around 400 years.
-
Double cloth from Bohuslän
17 January 2019Double cloth from Bohuslän is a woven using a technique which has existed in various forms in Sweden since the Late Middle Ages. In Bohuslän, this te…
-
Hand net fishing tradition in the Torne Valley
15 October 2018Fishing for whitefish and salmon with hand nets is a traditional fishing method that is still being practised in the various rapids of the Torne Vall…
-
Vadstena lacemaking
12 September 2018Lacemaking involves braiding threads with the aid of lace-bobbins and a number of flax threads. The threads are braided and patterns are created on a…
-
Rag-rugs
6 March 2018The tradition of weaving rag-rugs grew during the first half of the 19th century and is connected to the tradition of placing rugs on the floor. Init…
-
Clinker boat traditions
18 January 2017Building clinker boats is an ancient technique in the Nordic shipbuilding tradition. The old technology is still in use along parts of the Swedish co…
-
Artisanal glass
17 May 2016Artisanal glass is the craft of making glass objects using various techniques. The craft is based on the melted glass and has been passed no from mas…
-
Laggning of wooden vessels
19 February 2016Laggning (staving) is an old technique for making wooden vessels. Archaeological findings show that staving was common on the European continent befo…
-
Steamship traffic
19 February 2016In Sweden there is a living knowledge of how to drive steamships. Thanks to the great interest and voluntary involvement, there are about twenty-five…
-
Varvskompetens träskrov (wooden boats)
19 February 2016Wooden boat shipyards have existed in Sweden since the Viking Age. In the 16th and 17 centuries several shipyards were built to build up a strong fle…
-
Nyckelharpa
19 February 2016A Nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle) is a string instrument with a relatively long slender body. When it is played it is held just below the chest, a bit lik…
-
Fäbod culture
19 February 2016A Fäbod can be described as a form of small-scale farms where the animals are sent to a pasture for summer grazing, consisting of a number of buildin…
-
French polishing and cellulose lacquer
19 February 2016The technique for French polishing was developed in France in the 18th century. It became popular in Sweden at the beginning of the nineteenth centur…
-
Bastabinne in Ödenäs
19 February 2016Bastabinne is a technique which uses spruce bast to make baskets and other objects, and to make ropes.
-
Glove making
18 May 2015Glove making is the art of making and cutting out gloves in leather. It is important to be able to "read" the skin, which requires experien…