By Michele Hayeur Smith. From March 15th to 19th, 2018 I travelled to New York city to visit an old friend and artist, Dara Oshin and was given the opportunity to meet artist, Anne Mourier, known for her sculpture, collage and photography and more recently for working on female issues and textiles. http://www.annemourier.com. Discussions with…
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Research upends theory that Vikings taught Inuit how to spin yarn.
Article was published in the Globe and Mail, July 22 nd, 2018. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-research-upends-theory-that-vikings-taught-inuit-how-to-spin-yarn/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=Referrer%3A+Social+Network+%2F+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links This is based on research conducted by Michèle Hayeur Smith, Kevin P. Smith, and Gørill Nilsen. Michèle is part of the Northern Woman Arts Collaborative. The paper was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science last week. The academic paper demonstrates that…
Artists and climate change
For those among you interested in climate change and the North specifically, this site and project was brought to my attention by Chantal Bilodeau, its creator. Chantal is a playwright and is the artistic director of The Arctic Cycle , Founder, Artists & Climate Change, Co-founder, Climate Change Theatre Action , Curator, Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Check out Chantal’s…
Norse North Atlantic Textiles and Textile Production: a reflection of adaptive strategies in unique island environments.
Paper presented at the 3rd International St. Magnus Conference: Visualising the North 14-16 April 2016, in Kirkwall, Orkney.
The Lady in Blue: the research, the exhibit, on Kastljós, RÚV, Iceland.
This video describing the research process behind the Lady in Blue exhibit was aired on Icelandic television in 2015, as part of the program ´Kastljós´.
Life, Death, Fate and Female Embodiment: Weaving in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland
Lecture by Michele Hayeur Smith Given at Bridgewater State University, on November 1, 2012
The Warp-Weighted Loom- Book review
Audur Hildur Hákonardóttir A thank you note read at the book opening event in Bergen City library December 16th 2016. “The key to understanding why words and images from spinning and weaving are still in use even after we have entered the forth dimension world and the digital age, when the majority of Western women…
The Woman Dressed in Blue: a Textile Find from the 10th c. Icelandic grave and its reconstruction. By Marianne, Guckelsberger and Marled Mader.
Based on The Lady in Blue-Bláklædda Konan, National Museum of Iceland Project The Lady in Blue-Bláklædda Konan: the textiles. National Museum of Iceland.
Warping a warp weighted loom
In December 2015 a good friend gave me her old warp weighted loom, these photos document the adventure of learning to set it up, warp it, and weave with it.
