Næste gang: 21 juni
Course in Nature’s Crafts
Learn to make beautiful products from natural materials and spend a day outside in the beautiful monastery landscape. Teacher and garment designer Regine Thomsen takes you through the entire process of the different crafts.
Take a break from the screen and spend some time learning a new craft with roots in cultural history.
All courses take place outdoors where we both harvest and make beautiful products
Tickets
Sunday June 14th
Natural Dyeing
and Botanical Printing
(Few seats left)
10:00 - 16:00
900 kr.
Sunday October 4th
Natural Fibre Weaving Workshop
10:00 - 16:00
750 kr.
Sold out
Learn how to make beautiful products from natural materials.
At our courses, you’ll not only hear the stories behind traditional crafts, but also learn hands-on methods for gathering natural materials and receive one-on-one expert guidance in the techniques. We take our time, allowing space for learning, conversation, and deep immersion in the craft.
With years of experience as an outdoor educator and bushcrafter, Regine Thomsen specializes in crafting with materials sourced directly from nature.
Hopefully, you’ll head home with lots of inspiration to keep working on your own
Practical info
- Please see the individual course times listed on this page.
- Meeting point: We’ll meet in the courtyard at Møllegården, right in front of the Mill Café.
- Refreshments: We’ll be serving tea, coffee, and cake during the day. Lunch isn’t included in the course, so please bring a packed lunch or buy something at the café.
- Remember: Dress for the weather. We are outside all day.
- The courses don’t require any prior crafting experience—just a willingness to learn something new.
Sunday June14th – Plant Dyeing & Botanical Printing Workshop
The landscape around the monastery is rich with herbs, flowers, and trees that can be used to dye textiles and create beautiful botanical prints on fabric.
The plants act as living archives, telling the story of the landscape’s evolution. Some are native to this particular area, while others were introduced by monks in the Middle Ages and have since escaped the monastery garden to grow freely in the surrounding countryside.
The course begins with a short walk through the monastery landscape and garden, where we’ll share the stories behind the plants and gather materials for natural dyeing and botanical printing.
Then it’s time to dye and print: In the first part of the course, you’ll learn how to dye fabric using various plants. You’ll also be taught the techniques for prepping the textiles before printing and how to prepare the dye baths. In the second half of the course, we will make the botanical prints. We experiment with colors and shapes, distribute leaves and flowers on the fabric and bundle them into rolls to be steamed in a pot over a fire. During this process, the plants will give off their natural colors to the fabric, creating a beautiful print.
Sunday 13 September: Wool Felted Seat Pad
For thousands of years, wool has been one of the most important natural materials for humans. Wool can cool, warm, insulate, and provide protection. Even when it gets wet from rain, it retains its many properties.
It can be transformed into a wide range of products, from clothing, shoes, and blankets to sails, mattresses, and containers. Wool is also a highly sustainable natural material. It requires far less energy to produce compared to many synthetic materials, is durable, resistant to wear, and naturally biodegradable over time.
The course begins with a short walk through the monastery meadow where the sheep graze—the very same meadow where monks kept sheep over 500 years ago, precisely because of wool’s many valuable qualities.
And then it’s time to felt: You will get the soft, fragrant wool in your hands and learn the wet felting technique. We will felt a practical seat pad that you can take on trips, providing both warmth and a dry place to sit. Along the way, there will also be time to learn how to card the wool.
Sunday October 4: Natural fiber braiding (sold out)
Making rope, string, and baskets from natural fibers is one of the oldest traditional crafts in human history. Across all times and cultures, people have twisted and tied plant fibers from leaves, stems, and bark—using whatever the local landscape had to offer.
The course begins with a short walk around the monastery grounds, where we’ll explore and gather different plants—such as linden, nettles, soft rush, and more. We’ll go over how to harvest the plants and prepare the fibers for use.
And then it’s time to twist and tie: You get the natural fibers in your hands and learn how to twist a two-twisted rope/cord. You’ll then be introduced to the technique of loop tying and be able to tie a small bowl or basket.
