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The Saami are the indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia. They are known for their intricate and colourful weaving of narrow bands, used for belts and decorative edgings. **

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The Saami

The Saami
The Saami (Lapps) are known as the people of the sun and the wind. They are a nomadic people of northern Scandinavia and are reindeer herders. Saami ethnic heritage, language, traditional clothing, and handicrafts are distinct from other cultures in Norway, Sweden, Finland or Russia.

Saami Art
The Saami traditionally decorated their tools, clothing and other items of daily life. Clothing was made of reindeer skins and felted wool. Clothing edges were decorated with colorful bandweaving and woven belts.

Photo of a Saami woman wearing traditional dress.

My Saami Heritage
My grandmother was a Norwegian Saami. Here are some photos that I have of her and my father.

Saami Traditional Arts
Program notes are available on-line for a presentation made by Artist Anna-Stina Svakko, visiting the Bay Area from Porjus, a traditional Saami village in northern Sweden.

Varanger Saami Museum
A Norwegian museum exhibits Saami Duojdi handicrafts.

Arctic Norway
A cultural excursion to Norway to visit Saami 'grene' weavers. folk museums and travel by riverboats past scenic waterfalls and fjords.

Saami History
Archaeologists have linked the oldest Scandinavian stone age culture, the Komsa to the ancestors of the Saami. Ghengis Khan wrote that the Saami were a nation he would not try to fight again. They didn't believe in war but were peaceful retreaters and disappeared in times of conflict. They moved their homes and reindeer and adapted to their new natural surroundings.

Saami - You Tube
I have added some interesting Saami links onto my You Tube Channel

Saami Belts and Braids

woven Saami belt

More about Saami Weaving

Saami Double Heddle Loom
The colourful Saami braids are woven on a rigid heddle that has an extra hole for the colored yarn.

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