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Mink Pillow

October 8, 2013 Robbie LaFleur

After seeing a pillow using strips of fleece as weft in Finland this summer, I experimented with the concept, using uncut strips of thick sheep

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Aino Kajaniemi! These beautiful tapestries are in the magnificent Finnish holiday room at the American Swedish Institute. Also, Anita Jain made the creative strings of ‘snow,’ which my granddaughter Maddie is pretending to eat. #americanswedishinstitute #ainokajaniemi #tapestry #tapestryweaving

I put this tapestry on my small iron loom to demonstrate at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota Fiber Fair. Showing the relative sizes of the wood tick and backlegged tick, it is part of a series I have planned about the constantly emerging environmental issues during my long career at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. I tracked environmental and agricultural policy and it felt never-ending, the constant new threats. More about the series and the ticks at robbielafleur.com #tapestry #tapestryweaversofinstagram #tapestryweaving #handwoven #blackleggedtick #deerticks

According to a very romantic account in House Beautiful in 1929, “Once again fate was kind, and news came from a friend of the discovery of a most marvelous loom of unusual size and peculiar form, unlike any other loom in existence in her country. In an old and remote farmhouse Mrs. Hansen found the centuries-old loom, and at last, after years of effort, the secret of the method of weaving the tapestries was hers.” Read more about how Frida Hansen sought to learn how to weave tapestries in the medieval fashion at robbielafleur.com. #tapestry #tapestryweaving #fridahansen #scandinavianweaving #tapestryweaversofinstagram

My new great news! Thanks to generous grant support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, I am planning a weaving adventure in Stavanger, Norway, in May 2019. As a fellow in the Scandinavian Folk Arts and Cultural Traditions program, I will study the life, works, and weaving techniques of famed Norwegian tapestry artist Frida Hansen. I made a page on my website with more details: https://robbielafleur.com/frida-hansen-study-grant/. #scandinavianweaving #weavingmn #weaving #handweaving #tapestry #tapestryweaving #fridahansen #fridahansenshus #americanscandinavianfoundation

Random-banded #kavelfrans made with yarn left over from embroidering a Norwegian bunad many years ago. #handmade #flossa

#kavelfrans on vintage wool gloves (made in Switzerland), in-process and complete. See them or buy them this weekend at the Open Casket event at the Casket Arts Building. #handmade #flossa

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