Course
Wooden Bowl Carving: Scandinavian Styles and Techniques
Course Overview
At crossroads of function and beauty, risk and technique, lies the Scandinavian fine handcraft tradition of carved wooden bowls. This course investigates the Scandinavian techniques and traditions of hand carving wooden bowls from green, or freshly cut, wood. Each student learns to work with traditional hand tools of the bowl carver - axe, gouge and knife, to shape and finish a wooden bowl starting from a birch log.