FISHSKINLAB

I will be presenting the 13th of April at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA during the IONA conference: From Fibre to Decorated Textiles in the Early North Atlantic: Making, Methods,Meanings  my paper on ‘Preservation of Early medieval Fish leather tradition through Higher education’. I will be examining the historical application of fishskin, the disappearance of the craft, the importance of Women and fishskin in the Arctic and the future development of the craft to disseminate best practices in fashion higher education.