Left: Moss, 2022 by Melissa Sammalvaara

This art is in copyright, you can access it through the artist instagram, link here or the artist website, link here.

Description: a hanging rug, with a uneven surface made up out of patches of different colors (different hues of green, white, orange, yellow), some parts have fringes hanging down, the very bottom of the rug is not knotted up and instead hangs uneven down. Propaganda: the artwork is a modern interpretation of traditional finnish ryijy form (rya rugs)

Moss, 2022 by Melissa Sammalvaara. Wool, cotton, mohair, linen, polyester, polyamide, paper, alpaca, viscose. The art is 70 x 120 cm.

Right: Unikko, 1964 by Maija Isola for Marimekko

The art is in copyright, you can access it through the shop website of Marimekko, link here.

Description: A repeating pattern of stylized poppies.

Propaganda: the motive can be found on so many things, from wikipedia commons, here it is on a car, here on a plane, here on some mugs, and here on a dress.

Of Sheep, 2022

My aim was to make a textile that is exactly like a pelt in every possible aspect, only my ryijy is a pelt from a sheep that is alive. Handcrafted woolen objects can be seen as a collaboration between the crafter and the sheep, as they both give something of themselves for the finished product. We can’t forget that wool is not just a fiber or a material – it comes from a living being.

A dream.

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