Today I am tired and have a sick child home, so thinking and writing are mostly out of the question. Having a cup of tea now, and happily reading the new number of Arkeologia Nyt -magazine with several interesting articles and also a short story about the Museology course I taught during the winter.

Today I and @mervipasanen.bsky.social gave a lecture, once again, on the lady of Kirkkailanmäki dress reconstruction. The event was hosted by Lahti Historical museum, as is our reconstruction. This time we even got all three existing dresses to the same picture!

Euran esihistoriaseminaari tulee taas!
La 22.3.2025 klo 9-16
Euran yhteiskoulun auditorio

Iltapäivällä rautakauden pukukavalkadi, esittelijöinä Jenni Sahramaa ja Mervi Pasanen

Ohjelma: www.eura.fi/tapahtumat/e...

Hinta 25€, ilmoittaudu viimeistään 13.3.:
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A lecture and a fashion show in Finnish coming up on March!

Kirkkailanmäen emäntä – uusi muinaispuku Päijät-Hämeestä
Luento Lahden Historiallisessa museon Hyvä paikka -luentosarjassa
Ti 18.3.2025 klo 17–19

Arkeologi Jenni Sahramaa ja käsityömestari Mervi Pasanen @mervipasanen.bsky.social

Now travelling home and listening to #manserock: Juice Leskinen, Popeda and Eppu Normaali all road long.

At #pelimuseo the Odysseus exhibition was small yet captivating, showcasing the incredible amount of volunteer work hours spent at producing the biggest scifi larp in Finnish gaming history.

Today we ended our winter holiday at #vapriikki in Tampere. Kids were mesmerized by the #songlines exhibition’s stories of Seven sisters and Australian art and the landscape.

Today I found especially inspiring Sam Bennett’s talk on teaching teenagers from New York how to mend clothes - and how this kind of slow craft practise was both difficult and important to young people living in a fast moving world.

One of the highlights of the conference was Timo Rissanen’s talk on Australian leather title sashes, as it illustrated perfectly how certain aspects of our culture are not researched or recorded, if they are used in subcultures that are considered marginal.

Great two days of #artefacta2025 conference are drawing up close. The keynote ending the day is given by anthropologist Daniel Miller online, as the agency of things was demonstrated to him with the misplacement of his passport. The last row of the seminar room is engaged in craft activities.

If you wish to see the Kirkkailanmäki ancient costume reconstruction, it is housed at Lahti Historical Museum, Finland.

Today we gave a presentation together with @mervipasanen.bsky.social on spiral tube decorations in Hollola Kirkkailanmäki grave 4/1978 at #artefacta2025 Conference.
📷 Krista Wright

#artefacta2025 Conference is now on! Professor Riikka Räisänen welcomes object researchers from all around the world to the University of Helsinki.

#Artefacta2025 conference is coming soon! Today I put together a small exhibition of textile research photos, both artefacts and microscopy. Some of these fibres are quite groovy! #research #photography #microarchaeology

This week, I have mostly been weaving. It is a hobby, but also part of the way how I build understanding of archaelogical textiles I study. This fabric is for the socks of the #ravattuladress, #ancientcostume from late #ironage Finland.

Do you know the feeling when you just can’t get something out of your mind without actually doing ot? Today I spent hours looking at something that I am not even researching on, at least not yet 🫣😅