Location: Turku Castle. Photo credit: Karolina Suominen. Used with permission. I love that the internet allows one to connect with (and be inspired by) artisans all over the world. Mistress Sahra is a master artisan who is known to many as someone who does exceptional Finnish tablet weaving. Along with Maikki Karisto, she authored the book Applesies and Fox Noses. This work which has really changed the way many re-enactors look at, and produce, tablet weaving. (This works seems to have helped many people take a step away from bands comprised entirely of diamonds or chevrons to more complex patterning.)
What I recently learned is that she also weaves textiles and recreates extraordinary historic garments. (Actually, until today I was unaware that she was even in the SCA. She hails from the Barony of Aarnimetsä in the Kingdom of Drachenwald.) As much as I love her tablet woven bands, I have to say that I am more impressed with her work on garments and in creating an entire medieval presence.
She has two blogs, one of which is located here: http://turkudress.blogspot.fi/
What I recently learned is that she also weaves textiles and recreates extraordinary historic garments. (Actually, until today I was unaware that she was even in the SCA. She hails from the Barony of Aarnimetsä in the Kingdom of Drachenwald.) As much as I love her tablet woven bands, I have to say that I am more impressed with her work on garments and in creating an entire medieval presence.
She has two blogs, one of which is located here: http://turkudress.blogspot.fi/
This blog covers every step of her project to recreate a dress from medieval Turku, from research, to design, to weaving and then crafting the gown. The amount of work in this one garment is astonishing and the end results are excellent.
To see her other work (both tablet weaving and in garments), you can visit her additional blog here: http://hibernaatio.blogspot.fi/
To see her other work (both tablet weaving and in garments), you can visit her additional blog here: http://hibernaatio.blogspot.fi/
The blog is loaded with great photos of her work, as well as events she attends (and those in Drachenwald really have some incredible event sites). It is definitely worth looking at for inspiration!
Links
Links
- Blog: http://hibernaatio.blogspot.fi/
- Turku Dress Blog: http://turkudress.blogspot.fi/
- Applesies and Fox Noses book: http://www.salakirjat.com/product/159/applesies-and-fox-noses---finnish-tabletwoven-bands
- Swan River Crafts (her tailor’s shop): https://www.facebook.com/pages/Swan-River-Crafts/619244368166139
- Facebook photo album from a medieval village she participated in in Denmark: https://www.facebook.com/mervi.pasanen.3/media_set?set=a.10152511919727620.1073741838.598197619&
Detail of seams from Mistress Sahra's Turk dress. Photo from http://turkudress.blogspot.fi/ and used with permission.
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Hand sewing garments. From Middelalder i Denmark, 1404 (from Mervi's Facebook album). Used with permission.
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