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A decorative item used in household, it distinctive for the area of Săpânța, Maramureș.

A small white woven woolen carpet made by Anuța Stan

Henner handweaves using a loom or a heddle. A loom can be of different sizes, ranging from smaller ones on a table and larger ones that fill smaller rooms. Henner's loom is a hand weaving looom, where she dones all the preperations and weaving…

Therese Henner at her loom in her studio, weaving. Video at an angle from behind

Plant dyed yarns, dyed by Therese Henner

Therese Henner at her loom in her studio, weaving. Image in profile view.

Felting is a technique of joining fibers together. It can be done dry or wet, and Carina Haglund uses wet felting. In Swedish there are two different words usually used for felting: “tovning” which is most used, or “filtning”. “Tovning” can also be…

Carina Haglund using the felting machine built by her husband

Carina Haglund in her workshop felting a small wool disk

Carina Haglund's felting machine

Carina Haglund in her workshop rolling and felting at the table

Entrelac is a knitting technique that is strongly reminicent of woven/braided birch back, which is traditionally made and used in the area. See RV_CP_01(01)

Inez Assk holding a local and traditional pack basket woven in birch bark using the same design language as entrelac

Forging is working with iron, and other metals.Warm and hot forming requires a forge to warm up the metals, The hot and warm metals can be formed into shapes with the help of hammers, anvil, pliers and other tools. The different warming, temperatures…

Tor-Vegard Mørkved demonstrates how he creates a bird figure by using hand hammers and mechanical hammers

Tor-Vegard Mørkved holding a hot bird formed steel with pliers

Tor-Vegard Mørkved demonstrates how he creates a bird figure by using hand hammer

The know-how about curating, harvesting and selecting the best parts of the sheep wool and different uses according to its natural properties: socks, sweaters, woven fabrics and felted wools. Knitting has been a practiced traditionally carried out at…

Ragnhild Lie shows how to knit with circular needles. Two threads (white and brown) are used to create a pattern.

The know-how about curating, harvesting and selecting the best parts of the sheep wool and different uses according to its natural properties: socks, sweaters, woven fabrics and felted wools. Different breeds will shed different wool textures.…

Ranghild Lie explains about sheep types and their wool, and the stages of preparation of the raw material

Ranghild Lie explains about sheep types and their wool, and the stages of preparation of the raw material

Ranghild Lie explains about sheep types and their wool, and the stages of preparation of the raw material

The presence of high-quality jet deposits in Asturias enabled, since ancient times, its mining and artisanal use, giving rise to a culture centered around the properties of this unique mineral. Its believed protective nature generated strong demand…

The presence of high-quality jet deposits in Asturias enabled, since ancient times, its mining and artisanal use, giving rise to a culture centered around the properties of this unique mineral. Its believed protective nature generated strong demand…

There are two types of pottery: black pottery, obtained by reducing iron-rich clay, which has been documented since the 11th century in various closed forms (puchero, barbón, penada, cider jug...), and glazed and enamelled pottery, which appears from…

Javier Ortiz del Peño was born in 1963, in the village of Beyo (Aller, Asturias, Spain). In the 2000s he moved to La Castañal, in the municipality of Bimenes (Asturias), where his wife is from and where he established his workshop. Javier is a…

Interview with Javier Ortiz del Peño

Javier Ortiz del Peño's workshop

Therese works part-time with her own company Sirli Textil och part-time at Klässbols linneväveri (linen weaving). In her company she primarily works with different weaving techniques. She's also plant dyes and eco-print. She makes primarily everyday…

Interview with Therese Henner

Therese Henner sitting at loom. View from front and natural dyed yarns hanging on string above heddles

Therese Henner looking into camera, wearing scarf and band she's woven herself. Winter landscape in background

Carina Haglund felts artefacts that she sells and shows at exhibitions. She arranges workshops and courses for children and adults. She's also doing lectures about her craft. Haglund is member and participating in the event "Fårfesten" in the town of…

interview with Carina Haglund

insta360 photo of Haglund's workshop

Winter. Haglunds workshop in the left side of the image and house on the right.

Winter. Portrait of Carina Haglund, on stair to one of her houses. Her workshop is the red builidng in the left corner

Portrait of Carina Haglund inside her workshop

Inez has worked as a textile teacher and is now retired. Knitting has been important for her throughout her life. She has had a big exhibition of mittens (she has inherited artifacts of her grandmothers) in entrelac in Sunne at Sundsbergsgård a few…

Inez Assk in her home, knitting

Interview with Inez Assk

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Tor-Vegard Mørkved, art blacksmith, The Blacksmith in Sund (Smeden i Sund), with his world: "the only Cormorant-maker blacksmith in the World" (Verdens eneste skar. His emblematic artwork is a sculpture of a native seabird, cormorant (skarv).…

Ragnhild Lie grew up in Gudbrandsdalen and Lillehammer and has knitted, chrochet, braided, sewn and woven since she was little. Ragnhild is educated as textile artisan and holds a MA in Textiles from Bergen school of Art took in 1997. Her broad range…

Interview with Ragnhild Lie

Maria Pérez en su taller de Villaviciosa

Maria Pérez en su taller de Villaviciosa

Maria has been a master jet artisan for 30 years. She started as a jeweler, but nowadays, working with jet is more important.

Maria Pérez en su taller de Villaviciosa

He earned a degree in Geography and History from the University of Oviedo in 2001. He began his professional career as a researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid before transitioning to professional archaeology, where he participated as a…

Interview with Orlando Morán

Interview with Orlando Morán

Orlando Morán in his workspace at the Cultural Factory of Avilés

Born in Laviana, Asturias in 1976. Designer and ceramist. Graduate in Fine Arts, specialising in Design, from the University of Barcelona and a Higher Graduate in Artistic Ceramics from the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona, Llotja, San Andreu.…

Natalia Suárez making a vase

Interview with Natalia Suárez

Interview with Natalia Suárez

Natalia Suárez's set of tools and creations

Natalia Suárez outside the workspace

Natalia Suarez inside the workspace

Outside of the workspace

Outside of the workspace

Interior of the workspace

Interior of the workspace

Interior of the workspace

Anuta Stan, weaver of Săpânța presenting the steps of wool weaving

Anuta Stan, weaver of Săpânța presenting the steps of wool weaving

.Săpânța is not a common village, precisely because it holds on its territory a rare treasure, hard to value in money or words – CIMITIRUL VESEL (THE MERRY CEMETERY). The Merry Cemetery of Săpânța – globally unique and world value monument, where…

One of the most important manifestations of traditional culture, the result of the creative effort of a whole community and a real brand of identity, is the traditional/popular costume. In Maramures, the most important piece of clothing and the…

Simple wool belt made by Anuța Stan

Simple wool belt made by Anuța Stan

The components that define the image of the traditional costume are the traiste (shoulder bags) and desagi (saddle bags). These items serve both a functional-utilitarian and an informational-aesthetic role. Their purpose and usability distinguish…

The weaver working on traditional wool shoulder bag in Maramures

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This is a fine example of a traditional 'Helmsdale' patterned fisherman's gansey or jumper, dating back to the mid-20th century. The design features motifs that include the diamond shape of herring nets and the cable patterns reminiscent of rope…