This post is an introduction to Britta Marakatt Labba's incredible embroidered wool on linen tapestry about the history of the Sami people in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. In Finland, the area that these people live in is called Lapland.
The entire embroidery is 24 metres long and can be read in either direction.
The artist speaks
here about each of the panels. She speaks about the Goddess mythology that is so important to this culture. You will also
find images at the same link for the entire panel.
The tapestry was shown at
Documenta 14 in Kassel Germany in October 2017.
I humbly write this to encourage readers to go to Beatrijs Sterk's post on the
Textile Forum blog.
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An amazing piece of work, thanks for the introduction
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