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Spoon carving course: a Swedish tradition by Jögge Sundqvist
“Spoon carving involves a surprising level of hidden engineering and understanding of wood to make a delicate, graceful, strong, and useful spoon - one that will grow even more beautiful with years of use.”
Jögge Sundqvist
Jögge Sundqvist will generously share 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 back a thousand years in Scandinavia. These elegant and useful objects are painted with oil-based colors or adorned with decorative chip carvings.
Here, you can make your spoon with natural materials, taking home a beautiful and useful object!
Spoonmaking in the Scandinavian Style.
What will you learn in this spoon carving course?
Wooden spoons derive their stability from the natural bends in crooks 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, make a straight-grown spoon, and find 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.
The spoon carving course is for beginners, experienced people, and anyone interested in Swedish traditional spoon carving.
Besides step-by-step demos, the spoon carving course will include demonstrations on splitting wood, axe, knife, and hollowing techniques. The forest surrounding Cerdeira will be our inspiration and our source of material and natural workplace!
Ultimately, you’ll take home the knowledge and spoons carved in Portugal with Swedish inspiration.
Jögge Sundqvist brings his know-how for the first time to Cerdeira, sharing his skills and culture with us. In his slöjd, the Swedish word for traditional craft, he explores work processes and relates to tradition-based know-how and a folk culture where art, quality, and working methods are connected.
Since 1985, Jögge has been a craftsman, lecturer, inspirer, and author, active nationally and internationally. He has been carving since childhood and is trained in using a knife and axe by his father, the craftsman Wille Sundqvist, and his mother, Maxan Sundqvist. Now, he works widely with public and private commissions and exhibitions commissions.
From utility items to sculpture, he works in greenwood with hand tools and produces painted stools, chairs, knives, cabinets, spoons, and sculptures in his studio in Kasamark, Umeå.
Also known as s u r o l l e, his alter ego, this trainer will come to Cerdeira from the north of Sweden to teach us how to make spoons in the Scandinavian Style!
Know his work here.
spoon carving course DETAILS
SCHEDULE
Course: 10 am to 6 pm, with a 2-hour lunch break.
PROGRAM:
1st day: Introduction - What is slöjd? - Spoons, tools, and material used in spoon carving.
2nd day: Going into the woods to find the right material nearby Cerdeira. Splitting out blanks and hewing them with an axe.
3rd day: 10 knifegrip learning sessions. Sharpening and carving.
4th day: Practicing and rehearsal the grips on the spoon blank.
5th day: Hollowing out the spoonbowl and learning how to use the hook knife. Work on the spoon project.
6th day: Chipcarving and painting the handle. Practice and evaluation of results.
CONDITIONS
• Enrollments up to 2 months before the course start date.
• Special discount for our community members.
THE SPOON CARVING 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 (first day);
Lunch on course days;
Free accommodation in our hostel during the course (upon availability). The hostel is 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.
ENROLLMENTS AND MORE INFO:
artsandcrafts@cerdeirahomeforcreativity.com
+351 913 989 281*
*(call to national mobile network)
CANCELLATION POLICY FOR COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
You may withdraw within 14 days of registration, paying the correspondent transfer fees. Following the EU consumer protection legislation, payments are not refunded past 14 days of registration. The payment will be fully reimbursed if the training cannot be held because of insufficient students.
Suppose the training is canceled by Cerdeira - Home For Creativity for reasons of significant force such as a pandemic, civil disorder, a natural catastrophe, medical or family issues of the teacher, and others beyond our control. In that case, Cerdeira will offer a voucher for a different workshop of your choice. The voucher is valid for two years.
