Anitta's chair project colors still in process

Ilze's chair

For my chair design I decided to combine Finnish - Lapland's traditional costume COLOURS:

Blue

Red

White 

(instead of yellow)

Sitting part of chair I decided to make in crochet technique.

For pattern I choose three colour combinated regular pattern from Latvia's traditional costume's skirt (3rd from right):

Back part of chair I will felt from white wool, do decorative crochet lace in white around circumference and decorate with tablet woven belt (because it is ancient Latvian and Finnish belt weaving technique and in traditional costumes there usually are some parts done in this technique) in three coulour - white, blue, red, combination.

During the process I decided to decorate chair legs with four felted ''boots'' with decorative tablet woven belts, similar to one I made for back part of chair. Somehow this idea about felted boots reminded me russian traditional winter footwear valenki. As our both, Latvian and Finnish historys are connected with Russia I think this idea would fit for this project. Here: http://kids-gazette.blogspot.com/2011/02/vuti-krievu-valenki-latviesu-gaume.html I found some nice information about contemporary valenki trends which are connected with Latvian design.

My inspiration for boots is this picture from here:

http://footwear.ua/news/latvia_valenki-2195.html

Anitta's chair project

My chair

Backrest:
Felted backround (could it be dark blue or white) and woven pirtanauha (ribbon?):
http://zagarins.net/Latvjuraksti/Krekluraksti/XXX_297_Rucava.JPG

Seat:
Woven or knitted+felted. Colours and rythm:
http://kotitarvemetsuri.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/karkausikkunallaweb.jpg
http://www.amatnieciba.lv/piedavajums_tautasterpi.htm
http://adielanmekot.blogspot.com/2011/06/kansallispuku-nyt.html

Legs:
Knitted. Blue or off-white (=naturalwhite) or red

Sulkava


Lībiešu brunči. Dundagas brunču audums, vilna


Keski-Suomi

Suomalaisia kansallispukuja- finnish national costumes

Here http://www.kansallispuvut.fi/ you can find photos about Finnish national costumes.
I haven't found any web-site with good photos.

Last week idea picture

Here are some ideas for a chair in my project. The chair's legs could be knitted tubes and seat woven fabric with colors of the Finnish national costume.

The backrest could be covered with cloth embroidered with needle. Patterns could be drawn from details of the other national costumes or parts thereof.

Finnish traditionel costumes

More chair design ideas

Some more Latvian national costumes and patterns

In these pages you can find many more pictures of Latvian folk costumes and different patterns witch were made by embroidery, weaving, knitting.

National costume center "Sena klēts"
Different patterns from book "Latvju raksti"






And here are some of my first chair designs sketches. The picture in the right is my idea how would a chair look like when wearing Latvian folk costume. The two chairs on left are intercultural chairs: color combinations from Finland and vertical/horizontal pattern compositions from Latvia.

Chair-sketches

I have sat down and thought these chairs today (like everybody of us ü).

But I thought could it be easier to form a coherent whole of chairs, if they were little bit simpler. I have also thought could chairs be not humans, but planned with ideas from national costumes.

I have tried to sketch few pictures with the aid of idea photos (without interculturalism). 

From book: Lehtinen & Sihvo. 2005. Rahwaan puku. Folk Costume. s.82

Photo: www.samiduodji.com/15

I hope, you understand what I have tried to say :)

Latvian traditional costume

Inspiration:
Here you can see many nice pictures about Latvian traditional costume variations:
skirt fabrics, socks, woolen shawls etc.:
http://www.amatnieciba.lv/piedavajums_tautasterpi.htm

And some samples from traditional skirt fabrics here:

At the first meeting..

At the beginning we decided to change one meeting time from April. So we are meeting 3rd of April at 12:15 instead of 4th. And the classroom in A225.


We had two main ideas about what we are going to do withing the course. The first one was about mixing Finnish and Latvian patterns and colors so that we would have made Finnish patterns with Latvian colors and vice versa. I promised to bring some books that I have for this idea to next meeting.

The second idea was about mixing national costumes and making the chairs into humans. I think that this one was more popular than the first one and we had a huge amount of ideas.

At the evening me and Anitta were still machine knitting when Tarja came and we asked about this course and how we should pursue. We told her that second idea and she was thrilled! :) She just loved our idea and promised to bring some material of which we can make samples. And we also took some linen yarns already. There were quite bright colors and we thought that linen would be good considering that our work is all about traditions.

-Hanna

Our first ideas: