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Sewing Charlotte’s Skinnfell: Background

March 29, 2018 Robbie LaFleur

Note: After I finished the skinnfell for Charlotte I explained it to her here. This is a bit more background about making it. At our

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Happy Fuzzy Birthday, Charlotte!

March 29, 2018 Robbie LaFleur

Dear Charlotte, Happy fourth birthday! Remember when we went to visit my friend Nancy and see her wonderful goats and chickens and sheep? This year

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Sew Love Into Your Coverlet (Painfully)

March 25, 2012 Robbie LaFleur

As a follow-up to my previous post about sewing a textile to a sheepskin I asked Jan Mostrom, who attended Britt Solheim’s class on skinnfell-making

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A Weaving Hiatus

September 15, 2011 Robbie LaFleur

Hardly any bugs bothered us during our idyllic week on the Fish Hook River in northern Minnesota. Tubing and canoeing and grilling and biking with

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“The Old Pattern” Gets Recognition

August 19, 2011 Robbie LaFleur

I was pleased to hear that my krokbragd weaving mounted on a sheepskin won “Best of Show” at the 2011 National Exhibition of Folk-Art in

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In traditional Norwegian billedvev (tapestry), the ends were sewn into the back so both sides were beautiful. I don’t always do that but I am weaving in the ends on this small piece. THEN I will show the front. Part of a series about Minnesota environmental issues while I worked at the Legislature, this tapestry shows two deformed frogs... #tapestry #tapestryweaving #weavingmn

"Tapestry Treasures from the Collection of Carol Johnson" is up. See walls full of Swedish and Norwegian tapestries at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota (but be sure to call first, 612-436-0463, in case a class is underway in the room with the treasures). Here's a first peek. Bigger photos of these walls at robbielafleur.com. I'll be posting more about individual tapestries in the coming weeks. #tapestry #tapestryweaving #billedvev #flamsk #scandinavianweaving #weaversguildmn

It’s satisfying and fun when a new class catalog comes out, and I find my classes listed. I love teaching the billedvev (Norwegian tapestry) class at the Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum, and my session from September 12-15, 2019, is listed in the new print and online catalogs. But when I opened the print catalog, I was amazed to see the number of Norwegian textile classes offered at Vesterheim this year! See the list and links to sign up here.https://folkartschool.vesterheim.org/classes/weaving-and-fiber-arts Heads up–these are great teachers! I’ll bet that many of these will fill early. #weaving #scandinavianweaving #norwegianweaving #weavingclasses #vesterheim #vesterheimmuseum

Part of a sea of Scandinavian tapestries I am mounting at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota next week, owned by a local collector. Up from January 12 through April. Lecture on February 25. More details soon. #tapestry #scandinavianweaving #billedvev #weaversguildmn #weavingmn #swedishweaving

It's great to know that tapestry weaving will be the answer to all of your problems in the new year, according to Berthe Aske Bergh, quoted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1928. "Everyone knows that the best thing to do with troubles is to forget them–but how? That is the problem that Mrs. Berthe Aske Bergh feels she has solved. Try tapestry weaving, she advises. As a matter of fact (and this is in confidence), she considers tapestry weaving an answer to a good many of the problems to which the modern woman is heiress. "Are your children too grown-up to require–or permit–motherly attention? Are you on the verge of a breakdown or just recovering from one? Have you too much time on your hands? Have you so little time that you are running around in circles? Are you aching to express your under appreciated artistic temperament? Or are you just plain out of sorts? "Then, says Mrs. Bergh, look around you for a good subject for a wall piece, a curtain or a chair cover–your pet cat sitting on the back fence, the neighbors’ children playing games, any subject that appeals to you–and start in to learn to weave it. By the time you can do it, and it takes only three or four months to be proficient, the unsolvable problems of your existence will have shrunk into nothingness and let themselves be blown away." I found the article in my research into the missing Frida Hansen tapestry, Southward. More about all of this in a blog post today at robbielafleur.com #tapestry #tapestryweaving #weaving #weavingtapestry

Lucy’s Christmas present, done today. Her great-grandmother Edith with French-knot enhanced pearls. Alden enjoyed the process, with permission to do what she wanted with all the stuffing. #handmade #handmadegifts

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