Key chains.

Soon you can find these tablet-woven key chains in the Fatabur museum shop in Turku Castle.

Commissioned work.

Red and black.

Pattern from Finnish Iron Age grave finds from Masku.

Something old, something new.

Weaving 4 meter belt with technique from Sulawesi.

Made with weaving technique from Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The spring dragons.

Puff found a friend in the spring mist

Finnish Iron Age pattern from Masku.

Lovely Niva with tablet woven collar

Photos by Noora Limnell.
Collar made by me.

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.

This week starts with custom work. Pattern is varied from Iron Age grave finds from Kaarina Kirkkomäki, Finland.

When I learned about a technique called tablet weaving in 2015, I immediately knew I wanted to use it for guitar straps. 10 years later, I'm still making guitar straps, and I've been lucky enough that almost all the straps I've made have found a guitar for carry.

https://smoucrafts.etsy.com

If you are interested send me an email smou.siilou@gmail.com for a discount (lets exclude Etsy from the money transfer )

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

This is how I start a new tablet-woven band.
Cutting and putting the warps on the tablets.
I know there is probably as many ways to do this as there is weavers and this is just how I do it. Hope you get some advice from this

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.

I don't know how many there are here that share my love for tablet weaving, but just in case you're one of them and have the opportunity to visit Nyköping:
https://sormlandsmuseum.se/utstallningar/sonja-berlin/
My main gripe is that I wanted to see more of them

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I tried the very old technique of tablet weaving for the first time!
Tablet weaving dates back at least to the 8th century BCE in the early Iron Age in Europe, but it has been used for a long time since. I used yellow and green wool thread to make two bands with this very simple stripy pattern.
I included some images of medieval manuscripts where you can see how it was done, since I forgot to make pictures of the process.
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