Programs we offer

Student will have access to Nordik Kraft's static display containing many objects of Viking Age daily life. Students are able to touch raw fiber, completed threads, looms, sewing kits, and embellished garments. They can see examples of foods the vikings may have eaten and what they ate with. Games, runes, boxes, raw and carved drinking horns, carved bone salt cellars and jewelry and bone examples.

Students will learn to create lucet cord. Lucets are found in the Viking Age and make thread into cord.

This is a hands-on, one hour class, limited to five students at a time. Material costs are $20. Students receive a "starter" lucet, instruction sheet and two yards of wool yarn, sufficient to make an eight inch cord, suitable for a bracelet. Students will leave with a cord at least started, if not completed.

Cynthia lectures on creation of cloth during the Viking Age. Creating of clothing during the Viking Age was a laborious, time-consuming process. Tools and fiber are discussed. This lecture is about 45 minutes, allowing for questions. This lecture is generally associated with tools and raw materials passed around a smaller audience. It can be presented as an online or on-screen lecture as well.