Thanks for asking...but there isn't not a catalog, I'm sorry to say....
The fair is quite small...maybe 10-12 women!
Last year several of the women were 60-80 years old...women who were brought up by mothers who taught them how to make traditional Greenlandic crafts, sewing, and knitting, 'peal-work' etc....using wool from Greenlandic sheep, musk oxes..and of course skin from Greenlandic animals; seal, reindeer etc.
(((...and here in Denmark a lot of people wear seal skin gloves or coats during the winter time..young and old people alike....and it is accepted as a right/'legal' thing to do without anyone making bad comments about it....everyone seems to know that Greenlandic hunters kill the animals in a humane way....and the animals have had a free life until they were killed....so seal skin is ok)))
So you know...everyone just bring whatever they have had time to make for the fair...or maybe vintage crafts that the want to sell etc...
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Mette - Is there a catalog or a way to view the wares offered at the Greenlandic Christmas Fair and perhaps buy?
Hi Ricka!
Thanks for asking...but there isn't not a catalog, I'm sorry to say....
The fair is quite small...maybe 10-12 women!
Last year several of the women were 60-80 years old...women who were brought up by mothers who taught them how to make traditional Greenlandic crafts, sewing, and knitting, 'peal-work' etc....using wool from Greenlandic sheep, musk oxes..and of course skin from Greenlandic animals; seal, reindeer etc.
(((...and here in Denmark a lot of people wear seal skin gloves or coats during the winter time..young and old people alike....and it is accepted as a right/'legal' thing to do without anyone making bad comments about it....everyone seems to know that Greenlandic hunters kill the animals in a humane way....and the animals have had a free life until they were killed....so seal skin is ok)))
So you know...everyone just bring whatever they have had time to make for the fair...or maybe vintage crafts that the want to sell etc...
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