A pouch made of a ram’s scrotum

A pouch made of a ram’s scrotum

Monika Hint, an student of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, runs her own studio, Koordikamber, in Koordi farm in Viljandi county. Collaborating with fellow artisans, local farmers, and hunters, she uses bone, horn, leather, wool, and other natural, often recycled materials to create products that build on and develop further traditional technologies. Koordikamber also offers courses and workshops. Tanning and tawing are traditional leather processing methods in Estonia. While tanning requires vegetables or flour, alum and salt are used in tawing. Until the beginning of the 20th century, these skills were widely practised domestically, though there also existed village tanners. During the 17–19th centuries leather pouches made of ram’s scrotums were used as money bags and tobacco pouches. They were tanned along with the skins and decorated with applique, beads, copper rings and fabric. Nowadays the pouch is suitable for coins, cellphone, pipe, dice, tobacco, talisman etc

Monika Hint

11estonia,craftedobjects

2019

iain

Physical Object

91

14/09/2024

20/09/2024

18cm x 13cm x cm

current,58.321648,25.726901;

https://culturality.museum/11-2/

TEXT

122

Ram’s scrotum, woollen and cotton fabric, bone and metal accessories Tawing, sewing, cutting, smoothing, drilling

Cultural