Bio: Lisa Torvik credits early influences of her mother, grandmothers, aunts and friends in the US and in Norway for her knitting, sewing, embroidery and weaving interests. She spent a year in her youth studying weaving at Valdres Husflidsskule in Fagernes, Norway and now focuses on projects in traditional Norwegian techniques and more contemporary applications.

Description: My Hordaland teppe is a half-width copy of my weaving school teacher’s full-sized coverlet, which again she had copied from an old threadbare coverlet. A classmate and I lay on our teacher’s living room floor for a couple days and drew the weaving order, shot for shot, on graph paper with colored pencils. We taped the sheets together into a long scroll. I continued as an “extra” student for another semester, able to pursue independent projects, and I wove it up from this scroll on a Monica loom that was free. It gave me nice clean lines.

Regarding the Scandinavian Weavers Group: I am happy to be a part of a group to which I can contribute what I have learned and I can in turn try my hand at techniques I am unlikely to set up on my own or have little experience with. Weaving is both a social and solitary occupation, and the Scandinavian Weavers Study Group encourages both learning and community.

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