Growing up in Finland my parents had their own company called Finn-Aimo, named after my father.
My father built weaving looms and an addition to my mother selling them, she also organized weaving classes for people.
This was the first weaving loom my father made in our small home. It was sort of a prototype.
My mother is sitting on a bench.
Once they decided to go ahead and start making them, we moved to an old school in a year 1977. Our family lived in teachers' quarters, and my dad set his workshop up for the school building.
This picture was taken to be displayed in one of the brochures, which was advertising the weaving looms, and weaving courses.
I remember that we had a room full of weaving looms and people from surrounding area would come and use them. We also had tourists from at least Holland and Germany coming and weaving rugs, table runners and wall hangings.
I was introduced to weaving in a very young age, learning how to prepare weaving strips, how to weave rugs and wall hangings, called Raanu.
This picture was taken from one of the fairs, where my mother went to display the weaving looms to possible buyers. My mom is sitting on a left, and my grandparents from Holland are in the middle.
It is my dream to own weaving looms made by my father one day. The only way to get them is to find them used and ship them from Finland to here, but who knows, maybe one day my dream will come true.
In the meantime, I decided to add some color to our very wood colored home by crocheting a rag rug. I made strips of fabric from old clothes, and then crochet them to a little rug. It does not look nearly as nice as the woven rag rugs...but it was a fun experiment.
