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The weaver working on traditional wool shoulder bag in Maramures

Simple wool belt made by Anuța Stan

Simple wool belt made by Anuța Stan

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

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

Interior of the workspace

Interior of the workspace

Interior of the workspace

Outside of the workspace

Outside of the workspace

Natalia Suarez inside the workspace

Natalia Suárez outside the workspace

Natalia Suárez's set of tools and creations

Interview with Natalia Suárez

Interview with Natalia Suárez

Natalia Suárez making a vase

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.…

Orlando Morán in his workspace at the Cultural Factory of Avilés

Interview with Orlando Morán

Interview with Orlando Morán

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…

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

Maria Pérez en su taller de Villaviciosa

Interview with Ragnhild Lie

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…

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).…

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Interview with Tor-Vegard Mørkved

Interview with Inez Assk

Inez Assk in her home, knitting

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…

Portrait of Carina Haglund inside her workshop

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

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

insta360 photo of Haglund's workshop

interview with Carina Haglund

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…

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

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

Interview with Therese Henner

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…

Javier Ortiz del Peño's workshop

Interview with Javier Ortiz del Peño

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carina Haglund in her workshop rolling and felting at the table

Carina Haglund's felting machine

Carina Haglund in her workshop felting a small wool disk

Carina Haglund using the felting machine built by her husband

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

Plant dyed yarns, dyed by Therese Henner

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

A small white woven woolen carpet made by Anuța Stan

Cergă from Săpânța

A well used carpenter pencil

Hammer made from steel and plastic grip

Foldable yardstick made from wood, with markings for the metric system.

A straw hat decorated with beadwork

An element of beadwork while making

Traditional collars of Maramures

Traditional collars of Maramures

Traditional collars of Maramures

Traditional collars of Maramures

Traditional collars of Maramures

Vessel from the Edra collection, on a slow potter's wheel

Vessel from the Edra collection, on a slow potter's wheel

Vessel from the Edra collection. View of the vessel's mouth

Vessel from the Edra collection. Two vessels with the same shape and different surface treatment.