Sonja Mantere - Pick-up techniques

Pick-up techniques

Punapoiminta ja pitsipoiminta

I learnt many different pick-up -techniques. Here are a few pictures of my experiments. In Finnish they are called Punapoiminta, pitsipoiminta, kuultokudos, pintapujotus, ryijynukka, kelim, helmipoiminta, juoksupujotus, kiertopujotus. Then there were Japanese saori, hanaori and clasped weft- techniques.

Rya

I had woven this mini-rya (puoliryijy) "Old maple tree"on the loom before school. At school we also learnt to weave base fabrics for ryas. In that case, instead of weaving, one can make the rya by binding and piling the rya-knots by hand. We practiced that too. I took part in the "Suomalainen ryijy"- seminar in Helsinki, which was interesting.

Our group wove these kinds of green carpets of grass for the Taitava shop for the Easter season.

I came up with this method with my fellow student Leila Horkka to cut "ryijynukka" by using a raddle (= käärinpirta) as a measuring tool. It worked well and was a quick way too! You can easily measure and cut strips of yarn of certain length this way and use them in your rya projects.

Kuultokudos

I also learnt to weave saori, hanaori and clasped weft which are used a lot for instance in Japan. Here you can see my woven red flower and a tropical insect in which I used the saori technique with two or three weft yarns.

In my work called "Music" I used many different techniques: helmipoiminta, pitsipoiminta, kiertopujotus and juoksupujotus.

By using the kelim - technique I wove "Two blocks of flats at night. " And "The washing day" is woven by using pintapujotus. And down below there is a picture of my hanaori experiment, in which you might see some kind of a flower or maybe a spider...

Traditional Finnish weaving < back < > next > Contributing to sustainable textile production

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse