Nordic Harvest

What if you could take a traditional symbol of autumn abundance and give it a completely new feeling?

In this creative floral workshop, you’ll create your own Nordic-inspired botanical cornucopia using a beautiful natural basket as the base.

The traditional cornucopia, or bőségszaru, represents abundance, harvest and the gifts of nature. We’ll reinterpret this familiar form through a contemporary Nordic lens — using natural textures, muted colours, dried-friendly flowers, grasses, branches, berries and seasonal botanicals.

The result is a relaxed, organic and sculptural piece that feels at home in a modern interior.

The experience

We’ll begin by looking at how a traditional cornucopia can be transformed through shape, colour, texture and negative space.

Instead of creating a dense, symmetrical arrangement overflowing with autumn colours, you’ll learn how to create a composition that feels airy and natural.

Some materials will be fresh and selected specifically because they dry beautifully. Others will already be dried or preserved.

This means your cornucopia will continue to evolve after the workshop, gradually becoming a long-lasting botanical decoration.

What you’ll create

Each participant will create a Nordic botanical cornucopia using:

• a natural woven basket cornucopia
• seasonal flowers that dry beautifully
• rried flowers and seed pods
• branches and foliage
• autumn berries
• moss 
• white wooden pumkins

The colour palette will move away from traditional bright orange and yellow autumn tones.

Instead, think warm cream, oat, beige, soft brown, muted green, dusty rose, natural grasses and subtle deep autumn accents.

What you’ll learn

During the workshop, you’ll learn how to:

• Work with the distinctive shape of a cornucopia
• Create a balanced composition within an asymmetrical form
• Combine fresh and dried botanical materials
• Select flowers that dry naturally and beautifully
• Create movement and direction within the arrangement
• Use negative space to keep the composition light and modern
• Combine muted colours into a harmonious Nordic palette
• Secure botanical materials so they can dry naturally
• Create abundance without overcrowding the composition

From traditional to Nordic

The cornucopia has traditionally been associated with abundance, harvest and autumn celebrations.

For this workshop, we keep its beautiful symbolic shape but leave behind the heavy, overly decorated style.

It becomes a contemporary interpretation of an old botanical tradition.

A piece that keeps evolving

The beauty of this workshop is that your arrangement is designed to change naturally.

The flowers and botanicals are chosen with drying in mind, so many elements will gradually dry in place while retaining their shape and character.

As the fresh materials dry, the arrangement becomes more permanent and can remain part of your home throughout the autumn and winter.

What you’ll bring home

At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home your own handmade Nordic botanical cornucopia.

It will be a one-of-a-kind arrangement created from your own combination of flowers, grasses, branches and natural materials.

You’ll also take home the techniques you learned — so you can work with seasonal botanicals and create natural compositions at home throughout the year.

The cornucopia itself can also be reused and restyled for another season.

Level: Easy–Intermediate

✔ The price includes the basic materials (floral material,container, candle, accessories, packaging material/ bag, ribbon), soft beverages, snacks and a small gift from us. You can take your arrangement home with you at the end.

✔ We provide the tools, apron and gloves.

✔ Limited number: max. 7 people.

✔ Duration: approx. 2 hours.

✔ Language: Hungarian, English. The workshops are held in English or Hungarian depending on the participants.

✔ Gift cards, which can be purchased on our website, can be used towards all workshops.

✔ Private floral workshops at your location of choice is also possible with prior arrangement

 Note: If you sign up for one of our workshops but cannot come, you can cancel 5 days before the event by email or phone. You can also transfer participation to someone else.

Namu reserves the right to cancel any workshop for any reason (usually low attendance- min 3 person). In case of full cancellation, all customers will be notified 24 hours before the workshop and have the option of: requesting a credit for a future session of equal or lesser value, or using the amount paid in our store, or receiving a full refund.

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