Classes

The fall and winter classes from Vesterheim Folk Art School include great new offerings, both for in-person and online classes. Check out the weaving list and the fiber arts list. You could needle felt a fjord horse, like the one shown here, in Laura Berlage’s class. 

Video

Karina Siegmund is a Norwegian artist. She was born in Germany, and now lives in Stadlandet, Sogn og Fjordane, where she surfs year-round(!). From her website: “Karina Siegmund creates audio-visual tapestry installations, and her use of sound and light gives her audience an experience of patterns in motion. Her motifs are taken from nature, in the form of a stormy cloud-cover on the sky, falling water, or the surface of the sea.” Meet her in this beautiful six-minute film. 

In a short (20-minute) talk in the Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum “Collections Connections” series, Robbie LaFleur acts as a “billedvev design detective.” Focusing on tapestries owned by the museum, she describes how a few of the most common motifs in traditional Norwegian tapestry are honored and repeated over time. See: “Investigating Norwegian Billedvev: A Conversation with Robbie LaFleur.”

For fans of tablet weaving! The Swedish Sörmlands museum posted a video (44 minutes) on the tablet weaving of Sonja Berlin several years ago. See: Brickväva band med Sonja Berlin. It is inspiring to see her work and studio, and the instruction and tips are valuable. It has English subtitles. There is a shorter video on Icelandic double weave bands woven with tablets (13 minutes), but it does not include subtitles.