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Rotterdam barber school

Welcome to
KNIP School

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KNIP School

Maashaven loft, 3rd floor

Our
vision

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Rotterdam has more chairs than good barbers to fill them. KNIP School exists to close that gap: small groups, real clients from week four, and teachers who still cut five days a week. We teach the fundamentals until they are boring, and then we teach you to break them on purpose.

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Our classes

Your teachers

Working
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Henk, educator at KNIP School

Henk

Henk opened KNIP with one chair in 2016 after twenty years in other people's shops. He teaches the classics: the side part, the scissor-over-comb, the patience. He has cut three generations of the same Katendrecht families and still remembers who likes the neckline squared and who likes it tapered, which he insists is the actual job.

Daan, educator at KNIP School

Daan

Daan runs the advanced fade weekends. He came up through the Rotterdam battle scene and brought its speed with him, minus the showing off. Expect drills on guard changes, blending under bad light, and how to fix someone else's mistake without saying a word about it.

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Next session

Foundations
12 January 2027

Tue + Thu, 18:00 – 21:30 · 10 weeks · 8 seats

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