Svetlonoska tablet weaving

01/09/2024

This is what I made for .helsdottir between picking mushrooms and painting the terrace of our house (swipe to see the photographic evidence). I really enjoyed weaving all three!

27/08/2024

Once again, I break the taboo of pink colour. I remember avoiding it my whole teens and young adulthood almost like it was poisonous.

In contrast to the late 20th century bias, pink was considered unisex or even "manly" colour throughout history. After all, pink is a pale shade of red. And red was always considered a desirable and highly valued colour.

Pinks were usually achieved by dipping yarn or fabric into the dyeing pot after the first batches of red were removed and the dye bath was less concentrated. If you spent all the time and resources for collection and preparation of the dye, you would use everything up, won't you?

That said, pinks achieved by snail purpura and chenille bugs were still very exclusive and expensive. Pinks from madder, buckthorn bark, mushrooms and lichens were more accessible, yet we see very little of them amongst reenactors, even those depicting middle to lower status personas.

Thanks for joining me on my little TED-talk about natural dyes!
The band in the picture is an inaccurate interpretation of a Celtic band from Iron Age excavated in the Hallstatt salt mine in Austria. Shop link in bio

If you are in Bergen on the first weekend of October you can try to dye some yarns with me (again, link in bio).

25/08/2024

Which mushroom + band combo is your favourite? No 1, 2 or 3?
❗No mushrooms were hurt during the photoshoot in my backyard. Bands available in my webshop Svetlonoska.no

20/08/2024

18/08/2024

Teddy is trying hard to help. But he uses the wrong paw.
Custom band for Leyla from Austria.

11/08/2024

Even muted colours can give striking contrast 🌿 Handwoven of pure wool, over 210 cm long. In stock. Link in bio

06/08/2024

Plant dyeing is 🤩 🌿🌸 And it's historically correct!
I have a big box full of colourful skeins I dyed with plants collected in my nearest surroundings. Yellows, greens, browns, purples... And there is another bunch of skeins we dyed at a workshop held in the barn of .gard in June I still didn't collect (I promise I will stop by this week, Helene).
Are you in Hordaland? Good, because we are doing one more workshop the first weekend of October during
🔗 Tickets in bio

03/08/2024

Should I do patterns like this more often? 💎
Design found in book Tablets at work by
Using two shades of blue wool 🧶

30/07/2024

21/07/2024

I always love to do this one! The brown yarn is dyed with lichen from the forest behind my house 🌲 Based on popular narrow band from 9th century Viking ship burial from Oseberg, Norway. You choose the length, I weave 🧶

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18/07/2024

Just my weird hand and the weird band. 🌲🌻🪻
It was nice to weave something just for joy. Now working on custom orders.
This one is loosely based on Birka B12 band from Viking age Sweden. Now in my shop.

18/07/2024

My new assistant Ayla got tired of reading patterns from Claudia Wollny's Tablets at work.
I can't express how I missed weaving with cats!

16/07/2024

Just finished a very quick project made of yarn scraps. Yes, it is somewhat hairy and it's not cat hair this time - it is beige alpaca yarn that tends to get fuzzy. Now I have to wash it a bit and see if I can remove some of the hair to improve the surface. It is 230 cm long, 1,5 cm wide and handwoven of purple and green wool and beige alpaca.

09/07/2024

Some people don't like tapestry wool because it's hairy. I love it 🥹 It's like a small animal. That's my random Tuesday thought.
And yes, I found a forgotten project in a basket and now I'm trying to figure out the weaving sequence because I used some weird threading or starting position (different from what I normally do for this pattern).

15/06/2024

Greetings from a trip to Sogn! I had to leave this unfinished band behind home in Isdal but I do not regret it. So much to do in Sogndal! I visited the local museum called "De Heibergske samlinger" with an amazing collection of ancient buildings, curiosities and utensils. Including some tablet weaving cards 😁

15/06/2024

We are spending a part of our vacation in Sogndal. Of course we had to visit the local museum! There are several buildings from 1600's in its collection as well as beautifully decorated furniture, utensils and personal belongings. And of course a piece of tablet woven band!

14/06/2024

The first group of knitters from the US learned a thing or two about dying yarns with plants :)
They left the workshop with 6 colours in their bags:
deep yellow, bright yellow, olive green, tan brown, orange and purple. The second group will hopefully get the same wonderful result coming Wednesday

06/06/2024

Nothing special to share, just a belt I like. It was not hard to weave it at all, it is not made of anything else than pure wool and its colours are not exactly striking. Still, I find it charming. Maybe because it is so simple?
I will list it in my web shop later this evening. I hope it gets to the right person 😊