Jögge Sundqvist will generously share with us the knowledge of spoonmaking in the Scandinavian style, which he learned from his father Wille Sundqvist.
In this unplugged slöjd class, you’ll learn the basics of traditional Scandinavian carving techniques with an axe and knife. Carving finely made eating and cooking spoons is a rich tradition going back a thousand years in Scandinavia. These elegant and useful objects are either painted with oil-based colors or adorned with decorative chip carvings.
Here you’ll have the opportunity to make your own spoon with natural materials, taking home a beautiful and useful object.
What will you learn in this course?
Wooden spoons derive their stability from the natural bends in crooks in order to follow the fibers. There are many wonderful hand grips to learn, using forgotten muscles, and always employing safety stops.
We will go from green to dry wood and make a straight-grown spoon and end up finding a blank in the woods for a natural bent spoon. We will also discuss stylistic elements in the functional design, the natural properties of the wood, the production process, special knife grasps, and the sharpening of the tools.
This is a course for beginners and experienced people, for anyone who’s interested in Swedish traditional spooncarving.
Besides step-by-step demos, this course will consist of demonstrations on splitting wood, axe techniques, knife techniques, and hollowing techniques. The forest that surrounds Cerdeira will be our inspiration but also our source of material and natural workplace!
In the end, you’ll take home not only the knowledge but your own spoons, carved in Portugal with Swedish inspiration.
Schedule
Course: 10 am to 6 pm, with a 2-hour lunch break.
Conditions
• Enrollments up to 2 months before the course start date
• 10% discount on the total cost of the course if you make a prompt payment at least 3 months before the course start date.
The course fee includes:
- Integration in a small workgroup;
- Training 5-6 hours a day, spoken in English and Portuguese;
- All the materials needed for the course;
- Welcome dinner;
- Free accommodation in our shared residences during the course (upon availability). The residences are equipped with a dormitory, kitchen, shared bathrooms, washing machine, towels, bed linen, and wi-fi;
- 10% discount on the base rate when booking an individual house (minimum of 2 nights). The base rate refers to a stay of 2 people and includes breakfast, equipped kitchen, towels, bed linen and wi-fi.
