WoW tapestry update

This Project has been in a "short" break, since I have ran out of few metal threads. They are quite expensive and difficult to get from USA. But now I have a source for them and this will be finished in next winter.

Lisää reittioppaita

Tässä linkit Härkätien ja Suuren rantatien = Kuninkaantie reittioppaisiin.
Oppaissa näytetään tien linjaus piirtohetken viimeisimmällä karttapohjalla.


Härkätie


Kuninkaantie

Deleted old website

I deleted yesterday my old website, where I had all the content from the A&S works. Site would have needed a bigger change and format was already old fashioned.

I will put here some of the content.

I added tags to sort the content easier.


Blogin sisällöstä tulee olemaan yhä suurempi osa Suomen kielistä.

new Tapestry

So I decided to start a new tapestry.


I have been looking for a good cartoon to use in a tapestry, where I should use only metal weft. Finally I found one. I will weave a dragon of World of Warcraft. I have not been playing the game, but the dragon looks great.


I will use my small table loom and size of the tapestry will be about A3 sheet. Tapestries of purely metal weft has never been bigger than 1 m2.
Now I am waiting a delivery of Kreinik metal braid in size #12 Tapestry from US. I couldnot find the hues and size from anywhere else.

One of the good features of this project is: that it is easy to take this loom with me and teach how these works are done.

Warping is made with linen thread and 6 warps/cm as usual. It was normal in fine tapestries also. It was rare to go as far as 7 warps/cm.

Ooops I have forgotted to update

During autumn, I have made a bow from Osage orange.


I also started a long lasting project of Chain of medalions.
Five is under work and few more are to come.

AS competitions

I have partisipated with these works:

Woven tapestry of Unicorn in Captivity – 2007 somewhere in Finland

 Embroidered wallhanging on silk with metal threads – 2007 Spring Crown Tourney

Annual Competition 2008

1) Boar hunting Tapestry Textile Arts, Weaving standard  - 2008 Winter Coronation 
2)      Travelling at 15^th century, research paper- 2008 Winter Coronation 
3)      Tornacum, printing plate, Metalwork – 2008 Spring Crown Tourney 
4)      Windrose illumination in to parchment – 2008 Summer Coronation 
5)      Cider one part of the annual competition - 2008 Autumn Crown Tourney 
6)      Verdure with arms of me (Tapestry) - 2008 Autumn Crown Tourney

 Roads of Finland 1555 (book of maps) – 2009 Winter Coronation

Aarnimetsä Segelled Cartography/Illumination               - 02.04.2010

16^th century bed ryijy         -2010 some where

Held A&S competition - 2014 Mid winterfeast, Theme drinks.

Roadmap to Ludwigstein, Research, Cartography – Summer Coronation 2014

Coast of Finnish Gulf, map Fine Arts, illumination - 2014 Autumn Crown Tourney

Yew longbow Woodwork -  2014 Autumn Crown Tourney

Mars ja Silvia Tapestry - Summer coronation in Nordmark 2015

AS classes

Classes I have held:

Archery in middle ages      - 2005 somewhere in Finland

Tapestry Weaving               - 2008 University

Braies workshop – 2009 Cudgel war

Cartography in Fine Arts and research - 2009, University

Online course from Tapestry weaving, published in Kingdom email list 2009 (7 parts)

University 2010

History and styles of piled vowen rugs and cloaks
DESCRIPTION: The class is based partly in to the sleeping, castle rya documentation for the A&S competition

Metal embroidery – 2014 Cudgel war

Cider brewing - 2014 Academy in Turku

Tapestry weaving - 2016 Spring event in Miehonlinna

Cartographia, expecially roads in maps - 2015 University

Aarnimetsän lastut 16, Beginners quide to tent camp - 2016 Aarnimetsä web site
Medieval printmaking, - 2017 University, Delft