Figures

I have been embroidering little samples for my upcoming tin thread embroidery course 24.5.2025 at my work Tornion kansalaisopisto community college. This is a traditional design. You can find it in Mona Callenberg's book Tennrådsbroderier.

This is my and my father-in-law design we've done together. This is a figure of a capercaillie (=wood grouse). It is one of the designs I have made for sale years ago when the digital photographing, not to mention smart phone photographing, was not discovered itself up here yet. But, if you have visit Lapland in late 1990's - early 2000 and bought a traditional style bag with a figure like this, it is designed by us and embroidered by me under the trademark E.I.S Design. The difference of this new wood grouse to the old one is that this new one has a glass bead eye, the vintage ones has tin thread embroidery eye. It is like a small line there where the eye is. No photographs to be published about those ones -sorry- but they are made of reindeer leather "sisna" handbags. I made about max 5 with wood grouse design. Can't remember exactly how many but for sure they are unique because this design was never before until now published anywhere else. I found it in my notes when seeking the designs to use for the upcoming course. I do have details about it where exactly these bags were sold, so from that you can recon the real vintage item. 😉

This is my own design from my new collection. It is not finished yet. I make these small samples on different fabrics with different tin threads so that the students will be able to see how different threads turn out in the figure.