Traditional Spoon Carving
Dec 29, 2020
3 minutes
By Dan Cary
The Swedish word sloyd means handicraft, including making things from wood, metal, fabric, glass, clay, paper and just about any other natural material. But the term sloyd also more broadly represents a systematic approach to teaching and learning these skills.
In the sloyd tradition, the first tool a child is given is a knife, and the first skill they learn is woodcarving. One of the classic projects in
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