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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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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...
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Purim
8 February 2023Purim is a Jewish holiday and tradition which is celebrated on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, which usually falls in March.
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Song and dance around the Midsummer pole
8 February 2023Midsummer festivities with dancing and games are arranged throughout Sweden on Midsummer Eve and sometimes on Midsummer Day.
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Lucia processions
8 February 2023Lucia is celebrated on 13 December in schools and pre-schools, in churches, in workplaces and hospitals as well as privately, primarily among familie...
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Love locks
8 February 2023The tradition of hanging up a love lock can be considered a symbolic ritual of love that takes place in a number of different countries across the wo...
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Vasilica
8 February 2023In Sweden Vasilica is primarily celebrated by Roma who have come to Sweden from the Balkans. The purpose of this tradition includes wishing people go...
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Fäbod culture
8 February 2023A Fäbod can be described as a form of small-scale farm where the animals are sent to a pasture for summer grazing, consisting of a number of building...
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Knowledge on medicinal plants
8 February 2023This heritage includes knowledge of the plant's healing effects and the methods to assimilate these. People have always sought relief for various ail...
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Ålarvet
8 February 2023The name Ålarvet refers to the cultural heritage that has taken shape around the fishing of eels along the east coast of Skåne, called Ålakusten.
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Laxsätt (salmon fishing)
8 February 2023Laxsätt is type of a coastal salmon fishing with fixed gear that is conducted in the archipelago outside the mouth of the Mörrum River.
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Dip-net fishing tradition in the Torne Valley
8 February 2023Fishing for whitefish and salmon with dip-nets is a traditional fishing method that is still being practised in the various rapids of the Torne Valle...
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The right of public access
8 February 2023The right of public access is an old customary law dating back to the Middle Ages that governs the right to pick berries and mushrooms etc. and appli...
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Hunting with unleashed dogs
2 February 2023Hunting with unleashed dogs has been taking place in Sweden for a very long time. That is due to the country being sparsely populated, relatively goo...
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Lamprey fishing
2 February 2023Fishing for lamprey with special basket traps is a very old tradition. Smoked and salted lampreys were being supplied to the royal court as early as ...
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Kroppkakor (dumplings)
31 January 2023The tradition of making dumplings has a strong connection to the island of Öland but it also occurs on the island of Gotland, in Småland and in Bleki...