Genuine Sámi handicraft from Lapland
Genuine traditional Sámi jewelry - Little piece of magic and beauty from mythical Lapland.
With touch of chic and shiny ❤️ Made in Sápmi ❤️
- Braided spun pewter silver thread, hand stitched on soft reindeer leather
and completed with a hand carved reindeer antler button.
Every piece is unique and is for both men and woman to wear for both everyday and special occasions.
These "timeless treasures" will with time and wear turn into a beautiful sparkling piece of jewellery
and become even more attractive.
These bracelets have been popular in northern Europe for a long time. Nowadays these handmade bracelets are quite popular all over the world but hard to find in stores.
🤍🖤🤍 STORY OF SÁMI HANDICRAFT 🤍🖤🤍
These luxuriously handcrafted jewellery is called Sámi craft (duodji) and it is a time-honoured Swedish tradition since the 1600s.
Sámi country - known as Sápmi - stretches across the northern part of Scandinavia (Finland, Sweden, Norway) and Russia's Kola Peninsula. The Sámi have been recognised by the United Nations as an indigenous people, giving them the right to preserve and develop their crafts, language, education, reindeer husbandry, traditions and identity. The Sámi are the descendants of nomadic peoples who had inhabited northern Scandinavia for thousands of years.
Spun threads of gold, silver and bronze have been found from the Viking Age, which was used to decorate their belongings with. In Hågagögarna outside of Uppsala, fragments of spun gold threads have been found, approximately 300 years old. The technique using tin wire, however, came later. The oldest discovery so far is from Lake Furen in Småland. It is believed to be from the 11th century. Even in Gråträsk, Norrbotten, old tin wire has been found, which also dates from the 11th century.
Metals like silver and tin were originally introduced and adopted to the Sámi through trade with outsiders like the Vikings and other Europeans via the arctic shore line. Most commonly used was spun silver wire. The Sámi people soon started using tin/pewter, as it was easier to process and slightly cheaper, a so called "poor man's silver". Today we works with a thread that is a combination of both metals, silver and pewter. Tin thread embroidery has been widespread amongst the Sámi people since at least the 17th century. Eventually, the tin handcraft disappeared, even from the South Sámi areas. By the turn of 1800-1900 there was hardly anyone doing tin thread embroidery anymore and in the end of the 19th century the technique disappeared almost completely. This was probably because the tin (and even items in silver) was condemned by the Laestadian revival for some time. Someone properly faithful would not adorn themselves with "ostentation an ornaments". But in 1905 Andreas Wilks found his mother's old tin wire tools and began experimenting. Eventually, he managed to both drag and spin tin wire. He did not do this the old way, instead of spinning it around a lendon he used a bear wire. He also simplified the actual spinning by replacing the old "twister" to a kind of distaff that the Sámi people used to spin wool yarn with.
Andreas Wilk held courses in Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland and Härjedalen. By doing this he saved a dying art form. Today, Sámi jewlery is produced by both Sámi people, and sometimes other craftsmen, mainly in Northern Sweden, but also in Finland. Sámi bracelets are most commonly made of vegetable tanned reindeer leather, reindeer antler buttons and thread made of pewter with 4 - 10 % silver, also nickel & lead free.
The Sámi traditionally made the tin thread by cleaving a twig of birch or alder in half and then remove the pith. The twig was then tied together with string. In the hole, a mixture of melted tin and lead. The tin rods then got pressed through small holes drilled in reindeer antlers. Once the tin was thin enough it could be sewn into beautiful patterns.
(Tinalankapunonta, Mona Callenberg)
With touch of chic and shiny ❤️ Made in Sápmi ❤️
- Braided spun pewter silver thread, hand stitched on soft reindeer leather
and completed with a hand carved reindeer antler button.
Every piece is unique and is for both men and woman to wear for both everyday and special occasions.
These "timeless treasures" will with time and wear turn into a beautiful sparkling piece of jewellery
and become even more attractive.
These bracelets have been popular in northern Europe for a long time. Nowadays these handmade bracelets are quite popular all over the world but hard to find in stores.
🤍🖤🤍 STORY OF SÁMI HANDICRAFT 🤍🖤🤍
These luxuriously handcrafted jewellery is called Sámi craft (duodji) and it is a time-honoured Swedish tradition since the 1600s.
Sámi country - known as Sápmi - stretches across the northern part of Scandinavia (Finland, Sweden, Norway) and Russia's Kola Peninsula. The Sámi have been recognised by the United Nations as an indigenous people, giving them the right to preserve and develop their crafts, language, education, reindeer husbandry, traditions and identity. The Sámi are the descendants of nomadic peoples who had inhabited northern Scandinavia for thousands of years.
Spun threads of gold, silver and bronze have been found from the Viking Age, which was used to decorate their belongings with. In Hågagögarna outside of Uppsala, fragments of spun gold threads have been found, approximately 300 years old. The technique using tin wire, however, came later. The oldest discovery so far is from Lake Furen in Småland. It is believed to be from the 11th century. Even in Gråträsk, Norrbotten, old tin wire has been found, which also dates from the 11th century.
Metals like silver and tin were originally introduced and adopted to the Sámi through trade with outsiders like the Vikings and other Europeans via the arctic shore line. Most commonly used was spun silver wire. The Sámi people soon started using tin/pewter, as it was easier to process and slightly cheaper, a so called "poor man's silver". Today we works with a thread that is a combination of both metals, silver and pewter. Tin thread embroidery has been widespread amongst the Sámi people since at least the 17th century. Eventually, the tin handcraft disappeared, even from the South Sámi areas. By the turn of 1800-1900 there was hardly anyone doing tin thread embroidery anymore and in the end of the 19th century the technique disappeared almost completely. This was probably because the tin (and even items in silver) was condemned by the Laestadian revival for some time. Someone properly faithful would not adorn themselves with "ostentation an ornaments". But in 1905 Andreas Wilks found his mother's old tin wire tools and began experimenting. Eventually, he managed to both drag and spin tin wire. He did not do this the old way, instead of spinning it around a lendon he used a bear wire. He also simplified the actual spinning by replacing the old "twister" to a kind of distaff that the Sámi people used to spin wool yarn with.
Andreas Wilk held courses in Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland and Härjedalen. By doing this he saved a dying art form. Today, Sámi jewlery is produced by both Sámi people, and sometimes other craftsmen, mainly in Northern Sweden, but also in Finland. Sámi bracelets are most commonly made of vegetable tanned reindeer leather, reindeer antler buttons and thread made of pewter with 4 - 10 % silver, also nickel & lead free.
The Sámi traditionally made the tin thread by cleaving a twig of birch or alder in half and then remove the pith. The twig was then tied together with string. In the hole, a mixture of melted tin and lead. The tin rods then got pressed through small holes drilled in reindeer antlers. Once the tin was thin enough it could be sewn into beautiful patterns.
(Tinalankapunonta, Mona Callenberg)