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Touring classic circus
8 February 2023Circus as an art form includes a number of different genres such as music, acrobatics and dance. The classic circus originated in the cavalry and man...
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Live action role-playing – LARPing
8 February 2023LARPing or live action role-playing is a form of improvised theatre without an audience where everyone participates.
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Clapping, chanting and singing games
8 February 2023Clapping and singing games are traded orally from child to child without adult interference. The games contain a song or rhythmic speech, often combi...
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Land-of-Legends programme – The Storytelling Network Kronoberg
8 February 2023Legends are most often spread from mouth to mouth in meetings between people. It can occur from generation to generation, through associations, museu...
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The local heritage movement
8 February 2023The local heritage movement consists of societies all over Sweden that are focused on spreading knowledge about the history, environment and culture ...
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Riksspelmansskap or The Zorn badge
8 February 2023The Zorn badge is an appreciated badge issued to merited musicians.
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Fika
8 February 2023The Swedish ”fika” can have multiple meanings, but it is usually associated with taking a break (e.g. from work) with one or more others, to socialis...
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Smörgåsbord
8 February 2023A Smörgåsbord is a collection of hot and cold dishes, which can be combined to form a full meal. The Smörgåsbord is eaten during annual celebrations ...
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Gummekaka (Christmas cake)
8 February 2023In Torestorp and Älekulla in Västergötland, a round cake is baked on the day before Christmas Eve that is often shaped like a wreath – this is known ...
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Peppermint rock making
8 February 2023Peppermint rock is a (most often) white mint-flavoured confectionery stick with a red spiral along the whole stick.
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Semlor
8 February 2023Eating and baking semlor is a widespread tradition in conjunction with Shrove Tuesday. The tradition has existed since the Middle Ages, although the ...
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Glove making
8 February 2023Glove making is the art of making and cutting out gloves in leather. It is important to be able to "read" the skin, which requires experience, to use...
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Bastabinne in Ödenäs
8 February 2023Bastabinne is a technique which uses spruce bast to make baskets and other objects, and to make ropes.
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French polishing and cellulose lacquer
8 February 2023The technique for French polishing was developed in France in the 18th century. It became popular in Sweden at the beginning of the nineteenth centur...
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Nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle)
8 February 2023A 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...
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Varvskompetens träskrov (wooden boats)
8 February 2023Wooden 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...
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Steamship traffic
8 February 2023In Sweden there is a living knowledge of how to drive steamships. Thanks to the great interest and voluntary involvement, there are about twenty-five...
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Laggning of wooden vessels
8 February 2023Laggning (staving) is an old technique for making wooden vessels. Archaeological findings show that staving was common on the European continent befo...
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Artisanal glass
8 February 2023Artisanal 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...
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Clinker boat traditions
8 February 2023Building clinker boats is an ancient technique in the Nordic shipbuilding tradition. The old technology is still in use along parts of the Swedish co...
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Vadstena lacemaking
8 February 2023Lacemaking 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...
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Double cloth from Bohuslän
8 February 2023Double 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...
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Folk costumes
8 February 2023Folk costumes as a symbol of local and national identity has been used in Sweden for around 400 years.
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Making frieze
8 February 2023Tucking 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...
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Dressing of pelts/tanning
8 February 2023Knowledge 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...
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Hammarkullen Carnival
8 February 2023The 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...
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Knutsmasso
8 February 2023In the past Christmas celebrations ended on St Knut's day, 20 days after Christmas Eve. Christmas was cleaned away and all that was left of the Chris...