A thick-pile wall-hanging rug, known in Finnish as a ryijy, is hanging against a blindingly white wall. The rug is predominately a yellow-green composition, with clouds of blue, grey, and dark violet blending into central flame shapes in yellow and orange.

Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) 2, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 108 cm x 75 cm, 2019 (private collection)
Photo credit: Seija Leskelä

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A thick-pile, vertical, woven, wall-hanging rug hanging on a white gallery wall. The rug has a furry and pixelated look under the gallery spot lights. The rug has an abstracted depiction of flames and smoke on a purple and grey background. The flames are yellow, orange, and red and they are overlapping smoke pillars in blue, purple, and grey. The flames move from the bottom of the rug to the upper right corner. It is almost as if the flames are figure walking off the image to the right.

Day 10 #ArtAdventCalendar

The finished ryijy from the video on day 9.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) V, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 93 cm x 79 cm, 2022 (Private collection)

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A very close-up shot of the knotted wool yarn ends in a Finnish ryijy, a thick pile wool rug that is usually hung on a wall. The pile is dense and vertical, so only the ends of the yarn threads are visible, scrunched together, looking very pointillist with uneven texture. The colours are black, blue-grey, red, and orange.

A cropped shot of a rolled-up woven, thick-pile rug. The rolled rug shows the reverse side of the weave, with vertical lines in dark grey wool separating the lines of knotted, coloured yarn that make up the pile. The design of the rug is a climbing and curling flame motif.

A hand-knotted, woven rug with a thick wool yarn pile and vibrant design depicting an abstracted orange and red flame motif with dark blue, black, grey, and light blue smoke and cloud background.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) III, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 96 cm x 79 cm, 2021.

(Available through the Finnish online art market Taiko.art en.taiko.art/petrakaminen... )

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A screenshot of a vertical photograph on a white, square Instagram background. In the photo is an off-white interior space with ceiling lamps, a few different kinds of chairs, and in the foreground a thick-pile, wall-hanging rug on a cream-coloured wall over a dark, wooden sideboard on thin legs. The wall-hanging rug is known as a ryijy in Finland. It has a fuzzy texture that makes the rug's design look pixelated. The colours of the rug are pale teal, dark viridian green, grey yellow and purple, on grey background. The rug design is a stylised yellow flame overlapping with the teal smoke on the grey background. Where shapes overlap, the colours change.

My Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) 9 on display at the Skanno showroom in Helsinki. It's part of the Skanno x Finnish Painters' Union fourth group exhibition, up until early December.

Photo credit: Skanno, Hanna Kääriäinen

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A very close-up detail of the wool yarn ends in a hand-knotted, dense pile rug. The yarn ends are of slightly different lengths, so there is a terrain-like texture highlighted by light coming from the bottom of the image. The colours of navy blue, grey, orange, and fire red are mixed together in a pixelated way.

A very close-up detail of the wool yarn ends in a hand-knotted, dense pile rug. The yarn ends are of slightly different lengths, so there is a terrain-like texture highlighted by light coming from the upper left. The colours of marigold yellow, lemon yellow, pale green, and teal are mixed together in a pixelated way.

A thick-pile, woven wool rug is draped over a pale wooden bench and lighted by a sunbeam. It is a small and compact furry-looking rug. The predominant colour is the central red mass surrounded by purple, yellow, green, and blue.

A thick-pile, woven, wall-hanging rug is hanging on a white gallery wall under a yellow-toned spotlight. It is a multi-coloured rug with a central motif of an abstracted bonfire. There is a blurred mass of orange and red radiating from the centre of the composition, and it is surrounded by purple, blue, green, and pale yellow. It is almost like the bonfire is on a horizon line, with the red and purple on the top half mirrored by yellow, orange, green, and blue on the bottom.

Vierailu menneisyyteen (vanha kokko) / Revisiting the Past (Old Bonfire), hand-knotted wool on cotton warp (ryijy / rya rug), 64x54x6cm, 2019 (available at en.taiko.art/petrakaminen...)

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A thick-pile, vertical, woven, wall-hanging rug hanging on a white gallery wall. The rug has a furry and pixelated look under the gallery spot lights. The rug has an abstracted depiction of flames and smoke on a purple and grey background. The flames are yello, orange, and red and they are overlapping smoke pillars in blue, purple, and grey. The flames move from the bottom of the rug to the upper right corner.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) V, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 93 cm x 79 cm, 2022

#taideryijy #art #weaving #TextileArt

A thick pile, woven, vertical wall hanging depicting pillars of red flame overlapping with curling smoke in teal blue on a light grey background. The overlapping areas are in muddled purple, black, and dark blue.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) IV, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 100 x 78 cm, 2022

This is a ryijy (rya, wall-hanging rug), a traditional Finnish textile. It takes me about 150 hr to weave one this size.

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A close-up shot of the texture of the knotted yarn ends in a hand-knotted and woven, thick-pile, wall-hanging rug. The yarn has been knotted so closely that only the yarn ends are visible, making a pixelated surface of different colours. Every colour field in the rug design is made up of three or four colours, closely related in hue. There are swaths of golden yellow, pinkish red, dark blue-violet, and grey-violet.

A thick-pile, wall-hanging rug, known as ryijy in Finnish, hangs on an off-white gallery wall. The ryijy depicts an abstract design of flames and smoke. The golden-yellow flames are jagged and reaching up from a pale yellow-grey fog into violet, bulbous smoke. Where the flames overlap smoke, the flames are red.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) 8, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 100 cm x 79 cm, 2022

#art #TextileArt #weaving #taideryijy

A very close-up shot of the knotted wool yarn ends in a Finnish ryijy, a thick pile wool rug that is usually hung on a wall. The pile is dense and vertical, so only the ends of the yarn threads are visible, scrunched together, looking very pointillist with uneven texture. The colours are black, blue-grey, red, and orange.

A cropped shot of a rolled-up woven, thick-pile rug. The rolled rug shows the reverse side of the weave, with vertical lines in dark grey wool separating the lines of knotted, coloured yarn that make up the pile. The design of the rug is a climbing and curling flame motif.

A hand-knotted, woven rug with a thick wool yarn pile and vibrant design depicting an abstracted orange and red flame motif with dark blue, black, grey, and light blue smoke and cloud background.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) III, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 96 cm x 79 cm, 2021.

(Available through the Finnish online art market Taiko.art en.taiko.art/petrakaminen... )

#art #taideryijy #weaving