Wraps

Wrapped Folded Glove

Fitted, Icelandic lamb fur layered gloves, folded and involuted for the fists of fire and grips of steel. Draped as one complicated piece on the hands of a woman named Lise in Reykjavik.

For my fighting fists.

It was once a lamb, lost in the awkward grassed hills that cover Iceland, that gave its skin for yours.  These sheep*, genetically unique to Iceland, are annually tracked down on foot, herded in by the children of the men and women of the country, for all parts of it‚ body.

The thongs and hand-attached shank buttons on this jacket are made in our studio from Icelandic horse skin and contact adhesive.

Some days to create, 

and other destroy.

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Cut with a Jcut 1200 Lazer Engraver.

Sewn on a Pfaff 1445, Brother FD4 and by Hand-held Needle.   

 

*Made from the skin of The Icelandic sheep = Íslenska sauðkindin [a patched history]

Pure descendants of the same stock as the Norwegian Spelsau, brought to Iceland by the Vikings prior to 900 Anno Domine, Icelandic sheep have been bred unmixed for one thousand, one hundred years in a bitter, harsh environment. The baron moss-fields of Iceland yield rare game and consequently they are efficient herbivores. Icelandic skins come in many colours and generally are not dyed. The hide is quite soft and are on average 6 square feet (0.56 m2) to 8 square feet (0.74 m2) in size. Often left unshorn for the winter, the wool length can be up to 8 inches (200 mm) in length.

The Icelandic Lamb, is chromium dyed in the west of Iceland.  After tanning, dying and drying, we received this leather by truck and subsequently cut it with a Lazer.