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Summary:: Piece of woven fabric, using traditional Latvian patterns from the Zemgale region. Woven by Anna Apinis, circa 1970 on a hand made draw loom using 17 shafts. It was made for her daughter as part of a Latvian national costume when her daughter finished Latvian high school. The loom on which this fabric was woven was made for Anna by fellow survivors of the Second World War, in Memmingen, a displaced persons camp in Germany with wood scavenged from bombed-out ruins. It was designed by Anna's husband Ervins. Anna used the loom to weave traditional Latvian designs using threads gathered by unravelling old scraps of fabric. Anna brought the loom with her to Australia and continued to weave Latvian designs on it.
Description:: Blue handwoven fabric featuring a woven pattern of stylized geometric star motifs in yellow, blue and green. The fabric has been pleated such that only the yellow stars are visible until the fabric moves, revealing the other patterns.

Discipline:	History
Dimensions:	1015 mm (Height), 1530 mm (Length)

Tagged with:	clothing, crafts, cultural identity, cultural traditions, handcrafts, latvian communities, latvian immigration, woolwork
Themes this item is part of:	Immigration & Artistic Practice Collection, Clothing & Textiles Collection, Cultural Diversity Collection, Migration Collection, Anna Apinis, Latvian Migrant & Weaver, 1950, Anna Apinis, Latvian Migrant & Weaver, 1950
Primary Classification:	CULTURAL IDENTITY
Secondary Classification:	Ethnicity - Creative Practice
Tertiary Classification:	weaving
Maker:	Mrs Anna Apinis, Revesby, New South Wales, Australia, by 1970
User:	Mrs Anita Apinis-Herman, Revesby, New South Wales, Australia, by 1970 Based on a design from this region
Other Association (See Comments):	Zemgale, Latvia Based on a design from this region