{"id":726,"date":"2020-10-21T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T23:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T23:42:05","slug":"weaving-drafts-from-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/weaving-drafts-from-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving Drafts from Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two used books arrived in the mail today and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First is <em>Raanuja Ja Peitteit\u00e4<\/em> by Kaarina Gustafsson and Martta Saarto. I&#8217;d been looking for instructions on how to weave a traditional raanu and stumbled across this one only after a few years of trying the searches in a different way. (My lack of fluency is the biggest barrier to learning the weaving techniques of my Finnish ancestors. Or my Indian ones for that matter.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_8849-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the book Raanuja Ja Peitteit\u00e4 by Kaarina Gustafsson and Martta Saarto\" class=\"wp-image-727\"\/><figcaption>Raanuja Ja Peitteit\u00e4 by Kaarina Gustafsson and Martta Saarto\nA collection of 60 folk art weavings with threading drafts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a bit of a gamble, to be honest. Buying the book, I mean. The title seemed promising, but most sites listing it didn&#8217;t bother with a description and it was expensive &#8211; at least through the few places I could find shipping in or to the United States. But I&#8217;m glad I decided to get it, because as soon as I opened it I felt giddy. There were patterns!! Shaft and treadle tie-ups and example weavings on every page. I can&#8217;t wait to try one of these on the Liisa TOIKA loom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_8850-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the book Pellavasta Kudottua by Gufstaffson and Saarto\" class=\"wp-image-729\"\/><figcaption>Pellavasta Kudottua by Gufstaffson and Saarto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I ended up buying a second book by the same authors and was pleased to find yet another treasure trove of raanu and other types of weaving, complete with threading drafts and yarn size recommendations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m almost there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two used books arrived in the mail today and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. First is Raanuja Ja Peitteit\u00e4 by Kaarina Gustafsson and Martta Saarto. I&#8217;d been looking for instructions on how to weave a traditional raanu and stumbled across this one only after a few years of trying the searches in a different way. (My &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/weaving-drafts-from-finland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weaving Drafts from Finland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,291],"tags":[298,294,299,296,293,297,295],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-weaving","tag-books","tag-finland","tag-karelia","tag-kudonta","tag-raanu","tag-research","tag-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}