Byrdcall Studio, LLC
Reviving and Sharing
the Art of Rya Rug Making
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We offer everything you need to be successful in making your own Nordic rya rug or wall hanging. You don’t need Nordic heritage. You don’t need experience as an artist. We have all the resources you need to create an heirloom quality rug or wall hanging made of the hardiest wool to last for generations—and we have the experience to teach you how.
NOTE: Good News! Norwegian backings are back in stock. We have 40, 60, and 80 cm wide backings as well as some larger ones. The bad news is several colors are temporarily unavailable in the Rauma Ryegarn. Most significant deficit is #516 (a dark natural gray) and #501 (Natural white) at the moment.
Rauma is behind in their sample cards production, so until I receive their sample cards, I am hand-making them for you myself–the Ryegarn, the Prydvevgarn, as well as the Lundgren samples. Read more about the complete samples packet here.
Please consider the excellent Finnish Backings in multiple widths and a new 24″ wide Swedish backing woven of wool and cotton hot off the loom. Here is a link to learn more. Contact me if you have questions.
~ Melinda
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Greeting Cards
$20.00
Yarn Sample Packets
$20.00
Rya Backings - Rauma (Norway) Currently experiencing shortages
Starting at 60.60
Woodcuts & Linocuts
Holiday Cards
$18.00
Rya Kits
Rauma Prydvevgarn
Needle Block Organizer
$19.00
Swedish Backings
2 foot hemmed $74.00 2.5 foot hemmed $90.00
Lundgren Rya Yarn
$10.00 per 100 gram skein
Pack of Needles
Rya Backings
Rauma Ryegarn
$16.00 per 100 gram skein
Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers:
needles, and kits
via Facebook Group
Book published in 2020: RYA RUGS—Design
and Make your Own
Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers:
needles, and kits
via Facebook Group
New Book in hard or soft cover:
RYA RUGS—Design and Make your Own
About Us
Byrdcall Studio, LLC is owned and operated by Melinda Purcell Byrd. Founded in 2000, the studio originally was the site of a multitude of Melinda’s artistic endeavors from floorcloth design and construction, print making, oil painting, glass painting, and mural design and construction.
She occasionally found time to create a new rya rug always of her own design. As the granddaughter of Bill and Angie Lundgren of Lundgren Rya in Northboro, Massachusetts, she grew up around ryas and rya designers. Their rya business provided all the supplies needed from Sweden for the rya rug making process. In their later years, her grandparents counted on Melinda to act as primary designer, teacher, and business management. That was back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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