By Michèle Hayeur Smith
Tag: weaving
Pile Weaving on the Warp Weighted Loom in Norway.
Osterøy Museum, Hordaland, Norway. A while back we did a post on varafeldir by Hildur Hákonardóttir which is the Icelandic term for pile weaving. In Norway it is known as the same thing, varafeld. It is unclear where this technique originated but evidence suggests remote origins in the Mediterranean where to this day, various types of…
THE FABRIC OF OUR LAND Salish Weaving Exhibit – Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Salish weavers would sometimes unravel the colonists commercial wool products for their own work – adding in duck feathers, down skins, or woolly dog to improve the properties and quality.
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.
Feldur by Hildurhak
The word feldur is Icelandic and means a skin from a living or a dead animal.
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.
Northern Women Arts Collaborative 