Author: Robbie LaFleur

The annual Ig Nobel awards are given each year to scientists to honor work that might sound funny, but will then make you think.  Watching

Shortly after I began a half-year weaving course at the Husflidsskole in Fagernes, Norway, in 1977, we were shown a slide of a traditional weaving

This summer the wall hanging I entered in the annual National Exhibition of Folk-Art in the Norwegian Tradition at the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum won “Best

Weaving provides endless challenges – although  I wish I could just remember all of the previous lessons I should have learned.  Many of my future

While Ingebjorg is an exacting technician, she changed her tune when the flossa work began and we struggled with just how to make our intended

I attended a workshop in halv-flossa in July at Vesterheim, in beautiful Decorah, Iowa, taught by Ingebjorg Monsen from Bergen, Norway. This post about day