Kammala wannan jumla: Ulrikke Greve ya girma ne a cikin gida mai wadataccen al'adu. Mahaifinta, likitan likita wanda daga baya ya jagoranci Asibitin Kasa, ya kafa makarantar sana'a ta farko a Norway a Hamar a 1875. Ta kammala karatu a matsayin likitan magunguna a 1892 amma ta juya zuwa saƙa mai ado, ta karɓi koyarwa daga Augusta Christensen. Ba da daɗewa ba ɗaya daga cikin masu saƙa mafi kyau a ƙasar, ta koyar a ƙauyen Nordfjord har sai da aka gayyace ta a 1900 don jagorantar makarantar saƙa a Gidan Tarihi da Kayan Aiki a Trondheim. Bayan ta ci gaba da horo a Copenhagen, ta jagoranci makarantar zuwa sanannen a 1904 lokacin da aka samar da zane-zane 17. Sun lashe lambar zinare a bikin baje kolin duniya a
St. Louis (1904) da kuma Liège (1905).