Kolrosing

Adult Class: Kolrosing

Saturday, October 12

9 am - 5 pm $35 enrollment fee, plus $5 materials fee to be paid at class.

Cost: $35 for class, $5 for materials

At District #1 Schoolhouse

110 N 2nd Street

Mount Horeb, WI 53572

About the Class and Materials

Kolrosing is an old Scandinavian tradition, dating back to Viking times and was most often used to decorate utilitarian objects, such as spoons, small bowls or boxes, cups, etc. A line is incised into wood and darkened with tree bark dust or ground coffee grounds. Originally, coal dust was used and that is how it acquired its name.

In class, we will learn how to prepare the wood pieces you’ve brought with you, talk about knife safety and sharpening, incising and hand positions, coloring your lines, and finishes in the final stage.

You don’t need to be a woodcarver to do this! With some practice and control, anyone can do it! Soon you’ll be looking around your house for items you can decorate and kolrose!

Most of the materials for this class will be things found around the house. The instructor will email a list of needed supplies prior to the date.

About the Instructor

Since 1975, Rebecca Hanna had the good fortune to travel several times to Norway, visiting family and friends. In 2010 she co-led a Vesterheim Folk Art Tour to Voss, Norway, assisting participants with carving ale bowls. Rebecca retired from 35 years of teaching elementary students. In addition to traveling, genealogy, and photography, she has been an avid woodcarver for almost 30 years, demonstrating and teaching various classes to both adults and children including basic figure carving; Christmas ornament carving;“debarking” your Christmas tree; decorating on wood (kolrosing, kroting, and svidekor); and kubbestols. Currently, she is completing her fifth year of teaching carving to youth in an after-school program at Vesterheim. Rebecca earned her Vesterheim Gold Medal in 2008 in woodcarving. She does figure carving, acanthus carving, dragonstil, ale bowls, along with various decorative techniques.

Rebecca belongs to several Norwegian-American “bygdelags” (regional organizations), Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum (volunteer, teacher, & member of the Folk Art Advisory Committee), Sons of Norway, Decorah Genealogy Association, and serves on the Aase Haugen Senior Services board of directors. She lives in Decorah, Iowa.