My own fabric - the idea, the weaving and the final garment

Before the 20th century, it was common in Finland for women to weave their skirt fabrics themselves. Many of the surviving stripy fabrics have been an inspiration for numerous Finnish national costumes. I, however, have wanted to design my own fabric, just like the women a long time ago. Together with Susanna, who owns Kultavilla the weaving mill, we decided to make a new folk fabric. I designed the fabric, Susanna wove it and then I turned the final fabric into a skirt. Thank you, Susanna, for all the work you did to make this happen!
Visit Kultavilla here: kultavilla.fi/index-en
Picture references:
The paintings are from the Finnish National Gallery and their copyright has expired:
www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
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The garment pictures:
The following pictures are credited to Museum Centre Vapriikki, in Tampere, Finland. They are licenced with CC BY ND 4.0
White jacket: siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject...
Skirt: siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject...
Red skirt: siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject...
The following pictures are credited to National Museum of Finland and they are licenced with CC BY 4.0:
Woman's vest: finna.fi/Record/museovirasto....
Skirt: finna.fi/Record/museovirasto....
Music:
Epidemic sound: www.epidemicsound.com/referra...
KZbin Audio Library (attribution not required).
Equipment:
Nikon D5600 DX-Format Digital SLR: amzn.to/2QIGegX
Mic: Rode VideoMicro Compact On-Camera Microphone: amzn.to/2RcZ9Ab

[@KackyMuse]

Such a great and beautiful project!

[@user-qy2kw9kx3o]

How delightful!

[@natashaquijano6672]

AWESOME!!!!

[@threadsandpurrs]

This is beautiful

[@victoriabergesen6775]

What a beautiful video, fabric and skirt. All three will become heirlooms.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thanks! I hope that at least one of them would survive. I wear my makes a lot so they get worn out. Luckily this fabric is quite sturdy.

[@piakayhko9903]

Love your pattern! So cool. I bet the Merino in there is lovely. Great video, love how you matched the music to the rhythm of the weaving loom. Female engineers ftw!

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@alissaimregeis]

This is an ingenious way of making fabric for many collectively. It was so awesome to see the striping variation program. Your skirt was beautifully done 🪡💙

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@undeadgoat]

I'm really interested in that skirt closure but it was hard to tell exactly how it works from the video! I would be really interested to see a tutorial on that, I'm becoming very interested in adjustable skirt closures lately.

[@camib2864]

This skirt is lovely. The loom is fascinating (I am an engineer as well) and love older machines for their simplicity, especially enjoyed the punch-card programming, we have come a long way, but the craftsmanship of old was often better than what can be done today.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you and yeah, when the working parts of the machine are cast in iron, they’ll last forever. And these kinds of machines can always be repaired even if some part breaks.

[@michelleblount1336]

I found the whole weaving process very interesting and your skirt is lovely.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@jackiejames4551]

I love your dedication to this project, and 5he end result is a beautiful skirt. Thank you for taking us along on this journey.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@Janduny]

What a beautiful fabric and even more beautiful skirt! I love the red stripes!! Thanks so much for sharing your work progress with us 😍🤍💙

[@LaBricoleuse]

Wow, this is so exciting!

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@cherylh8924]

I really enjoyed the video, so much talent. I love your skirt.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you! I’m wearing it even now!

[@pjw2007]

This is a very good video and the best part was watching your joy in wearing it!!!

[@Amypirnack]

Such a beautiful finished product and you do such amazing hand stitching! Also, thank you for showing us how fabric is made! ❤

[@nancyfrey454]

What a fun and fantastic journey you took us on !!

[@tamarrein7792]

wonderful fabric, fascinating weaving process, love your historical skirt! thank you for advocating against the practice of mulesing!

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you for your comment!

[@Ellulellu]

This was really nice to see that we still have this kind of things in Finland ❤ I need to keep this in mind if I ever want my own fabric made! I wonder how much it would have cost if you paid for all of that fabric that was made in that batch? It must be quite a lot 😁

[@withmyhandsdream]

Quite a lot and Susanna gave us a discount as this was a special experimental project. :-)

[@Griiisetryne]

This is so cool! The fabrics and the skirt turned out beautiful

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@heard3879]

I thought this was amazing!!

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you!

[@adamakaru2683]

WOW I love the fabrics at the shop what a colours beautiful pattern thanks Katja. Ps, I just got Ashford 24inches 4shaft table loom. I hoe to make Asian like clothes from Silk if you ever wove in Silk, please tell me what you think? thank you.

[@withmyhandsdream]

I have never woven in silk. However, I am planning to make a silk-wool scarf at some point.

[@adamakaru2683]

I never woven at all 🙂just got my loom and please let us know when you do weave the Silk wool scarf I love to see it thank you.

[@solatiumz]

Thank you for this video. I'd really love to learn weaving, but I don't think my brain is up to it lol. Beautiful skirt, unfortunately in England, we don't seem to have a National costume. Wales does and Scotland have their tartans, it's quite sad.

[@withmyhandsdream]

You’re welcome. The English always followed the fashion more. Finns were pretty poor and far away, so the change was slow. The further back you go, the slower it gets. We were wearing basically Roman style peplos dresses all the way to the medieval times.

[@solatiumz]

@@beeticket Yes, as I was writing my comment I could think of quite a few men's costumes, but not womens. I guess the bowler hat would be quite high along with the Savile Row suit.