BOTH

We spent a lovely week with Halldóra Óskarsdóttir and her friends here at Þingborg in Iceland we were learning some traditional Icelandic techniques in knitting, and nalbinding as part of the BOTH project.

A lovely idea for lockdown...

Adorable!

Liz gave us wonderful workshops at Dalmally during the BOTH project. I still have the felted bag that I made with the help of our Slovakian friends... I will find a photo...

Felting kits from the mini to the deluxe set It may be a closed shop door but there is plenty of activity here at the Studio. I suppose i am so lucky not to need to travel to my Studio as it is in the same building but living in an active...

More beautiful Icelandic colour and design.

Hún Maja er snilldar prjónhönnuður, bæði hvað varðar snið sem litasamsetningar. Þessi "kórónupeysa" er dásamleg! Uppskrift á leiðinni í Þingborg þar sem lopinn fæst.

Nú er sá kringlótti tilbúinn og passar svona líka vel við þann ferkantaða . Mér þætti vænt um ef þið deilduð þessu , það væri gaman að fá fleiri á síðuna mína 😉

Laura Spinner verður með þrjú námskeið á ullarvikunni, tvö spunanámskeið og eitt um að lita band. Við hlökkum mikið til👏👏

Laura Spinner will host 3 classes at the wool week, two on spinning and one on hand dyeing yarn. We are so excited👏👏

Magda's paintings are just lovely

BOTH updated their business hours.

So, arTay 2020 will go live from 10am on Thursday 28th May and will close at Midnight on Sunday 31st May. So, get it in your diaries or on your phone calendars and set an alert!
We now have an astonishing 85 artists taking part so is probably the biggest online show at this time, where everything will be for sale and can be bought off the website www.framesgallery.co.uk.
Remember, there's nothing to see until 10am on the 28th May!

The Milky Way aligned with the Temple of Karnak, Egypt.

Og nú er komið að frágangi og merkingu sem tekur of töluverðan tíma 😁🐑🍂🌼🍁🐑😊

And now it's time to package it all up and tag it all which can take quite a while. 😁🐑🍂🌼🍁🐑😊

Flott að hafa svona þjónustu í heimahéraði 😊

Summergreen grass: leadersheep yarn spun by Uppspuni and plant dyed by me: birch leeves and indigo

Um Prjónagleðina - Iceland Knit Fest | Textílmiðstöð Íslands Prjónagleðin er árleg prjónahátið sem haldin er af Textilmiðstöð Íslands og samstarfsaðilum. Hátíðin er haldin á Blönduósi og er fyrirmynd hennar hin árlega Prjónahátíð á Fanø í Danmörku.

The Thingborg-group got reward from Erasmus+ today for taking part in BOTH, as a superb European project. These photos are from the Museum of Asmundur Sveinsson in Reykjavik where we got the reward. As shown on the award picture we got, the handcraft people that took part in the project, built a bridge between the three countries, so we also dedicate these reward to our good friends in Scotland and Slovakia.

Thank you for posting this Miro, its lovely to see all the things we achieved in BOTH. A great project.

The BOTH (Beauty of Traditional Handicrafts) project was presented as a good example of good dissemination and outcomes using of the project. You can find the presentation in http://www.erasmusplus.sk/prezentacie/2015/151022_KE/knezo.pdf.

Náš projekt BOTH (Krása tradičných ručných prác) prezentovaný ako dobrý príklad šírenia a využívania výsledkov projektu. Celú prezentáciu si môžete pozrieť nahttp://www.erasmusplus.sk/prezentacie/2015/151022_KE/knezo.pdf

This is lovely...

Watch Makers Season 1, Episode 1 online Meet weaver Beth Moran at her home on Clare Island as she shears the sheeps wool for weaving.

The lovely Beth Moran. She taught us so much when we did one of our very first textile and fashion projects back ini 2001!

Watch Makers Season 1, Episode 2 - RTÉ Player Weaver Beth spins and washes the wool before hanging it outside on a fence to dry.

Some ideas for a new project? Maybe?

Great article - sent to me by a Romanian colleague, Gligor Adrian Borza.... http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/11/recreating-clothes-from-the-iron-age/105668. Be a great project for Þingborg Ullarvinnsla ?

Recreating clothes from the Iron Age A few years ago, the oldest known piece of clothing ever discovered in Norway, a tunic dating from the Iron Age, was found on a glacier in Breheimen. Now about to be reconstructed using Iron Age textile techniques, it is hoped the tunic will inspire Norwegian fashion designers.

Also found this - from a project we did years ago - 'Fashion-by-the-Lake' - very pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - the young lady is from Germany - the picture is by Bassenthwaite Lake, which has the town of Keswick at one end 'Cheese Farm' from the Old Saxon language - in Cumbria we have many Saxon as well as Norse heritage

Sorting through pictures today and looked again at the Icelandic sheep gather - Great spectacle - lots of 'marguerite' patterns (Nordic star) - in Turkey (lady in knitted skirt - top right) they call the design 'Star of freedom). Thanks to Jay Allison's partner for this interesting snippet !

I always had mixed feelings about tattoos.... A few years ago I asked my daughter Lois, if she would like a new dress, when she was visiting me in Cyprus - "I'd rather have a tattoo was her reply" - I agreed as long as I could attend - it was fascinating and the guy (in Larnaca) very skillful.

Last year with my son Fian, we called at Crosslanes to meet my good friend Peter Coverdale and met this young lady - tattooed with everything to do with her passion .... needlework and embroidery - WOW!

Our latest project in Cyprus is to design an 'oak leaf & acorn' pattern for the village of Kato Drys - the 'drys' is Greek for 'oak' and the Community Council want to promote the association of the village with oak trees - the Forest Service helps by providing free oak trees for us to plant. This picture shows some elements we use in the design process