Greetings! I am an American with strong Norwegian ties and I have been rebuilding a lot of my culture as of late. My great great grandfather Ingvald was an extremely intelligent woodworker who I still have some pieces of that I will show below. He taught my great grandfather some woodworking also. However it skipped two generations and all I am left with is wooden heirlooms that I want to know how to make myself. My grandma described the process of watching my great grandfather pick out the correct stick for a tvare at Christmas each year, no matter what kind of condition the tree was (short, tall, lacking in stock branches, etc). I am struggling to find resources in general on a lot of Norwegian culture, farming culture especially like my family is and was, and I want to take up this type of woodworking again. Are there any good tips, websites, movies, etc. I can find to help me with my first steps?
by SufferingScreamo
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I am not sure about the first item there, but I am 98% sure that the second item is a yeast wreath, or a “gjærkrans”. Quickly googling “lage gjærkrans” gave me [this link from facebook](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2881180968570814&type=3&paipv=0&eav=AfYQolUsb7VX5DzdNH6oGuD0H_K7kXxxpnb-ThUtHbolJv3FK6W6haK-FyHgfM-2L7k&_rdr) of someone’s project to make one. You can read about them [here](https://snl.no/gj%C3%A6rkrans), run it through google translate or something.
It might be that the first object is also a similar thing? I dunno, but it looks really cool!
Edit: The first item seems to be “crown of thorns joinery”, you can try searching for this.
simple yeah yeah very simple no need to know any woodworking to learn this