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Northern Women Arts Collaborative

This project is to help promote and raise awareness of the Arctic and traditional roles of women in the past relating to clothing and textile production . We hope to bring the social sciences and the arts together so that ideas and concepts explored through more academic venues are shared and dissipated through the arts.

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Book Launch! The Valkyries’ Loom, by Michèle Hayeur Smith.

By Michèle Hayeur Smith

THE VALKYRIES LOOM: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLOTH PRODUCTION AND FEMALE POWER IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. By Michèle Hayeur Smith.

Introducing a new book by one of NWAC founding members on the textile traditions of the North Atlantic, from the Viking Age to the Early Modern Period. To be published on November 3rd, 2020 with University Press Florida. “An impressive presentation of Viking Age and medieval textile production in the North Atlantic, especially in Iceland…

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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

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    • The Indigo Iona Saga and the Settlement of Iceland
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