https://www.alojapan.com/1235353/artisans-in-japan-uphold-the-indigenous-ainu-culture/ Artisans in Japan Uphold the Indigenous Ainu Culture #handicrafts #Hokkaido #HokkaidoJapan #HokkaidoNews #IndigenousPeople #JewelsAndJewelry #news #textiles #YourFeedFashion #北海道 At the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park, known for its lakes and bubbling mud pools, red torii gates stood out against the white snow that had blanketed this part of eastern Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. On a park path, I suddenly saw a Yezo sika de…

https://www.alojapan.com/1231894/sneakers-become-art-with-a-traditional-japanese-sewing-skill/ Sneakers Become Art With a Traditional Japanese Sewing Skill #ConverseInc #handicrafts #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #NewBalanceAthleticShoeInc #news #Otsuchi(Japan) #SashikoGals(sneakers) #sneakers #VansInc Atsuko Sato, one of the three needlewomen present that day, showed me a pair of Converses covered with cotton pieces in different hues of blue and accented with some purple stitching. “This kind of fabric is very soft, so it was not that…

https://www.alojapan.com/1226450/4-cant-miss-towns-in-an-often-overlooked-corner-of-japan/ 4 Can’t-Miss Towns in an Often Overlooked Corner of Japan #CeramicsAndPottery #ForestsAndForestry #handicrafts #islands #Japan #JapanTravel #KyushuJapan #NagasakiJapan #travel #TravelAndVacations If I stared too long, the glossy, petrified tree trunk seemed to pulsate energy through the roof, down into the walls and past the fragile washi paper screens. “The house breathes,” Akihiro Tokunaga, the building’s owner, explained, snapping me out o…

Finnish Iron Age pattern from Masku.

Dublin dragons.

Making of bag straps.

Pattern is from the book Applesies and Fox Noses - Finnish Tabletwoven Bands and it's called Corners of fox nose gardens.

I love these names that the patterns have in this book

Thank you for the authors Mervi Pasanen and Maikki Karisto.

Latvian tablet-woven band from the book Celaines - Celu jostu un apaudu aušana, Lilija Balgalve-Treimane (2018)

Hey! I'm tablet weaver from Finland. In this page I will post my on-going works, custom crafts and finished products. I also share little about my life in small cottage in the middle of Finnish forest and my perspective in world. Now the first thing I have to do is get inside this Mastodon.

Feel free to contact me. I am happy to sell my weaving items and I make custom work also.

#SaturdaySweetness.

Super cute. #EmotionalSupport #crocheted #octopus

I'm meeting some friends this afternoon for day 1 of a 2 daycare #Indigenous led #RattleMaking #workshop.

I'm happy like a small child to have found these #treasures at our international #embroidery festival! So great for my #BiodiversityShrines!

Even more important are the talks: With an author of embroidery books who sold these "scraps", and the employee of the #naturepark was just as enthusiastic as I was and asked me if I would like to join her in organising children's courses with #handicrafts on #biodiversity. Oh yesss!

This weekend in Nanaimo, October 5 & 6!
The Mid-Island Woodworker's Guild is having a show and sale at the Country Club Centre on Saturday and Sunday during mall hours.
There will be twenty tables of members' beautifully crafted woodworks (including my partner's whimsical creations) to view and/or purchase. If you're in the area, come check it out! #woodworking #nanaimo #handicrafts

Getting my ribbons ready
Ribbon skirt workshop.

#SilentSunday

#Medieval #weaving #loom demonstration.