Byrdcall Studio, LLC
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Byrdcall Studio, LLC

Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers 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 fleece to last for generations—and we have the experience to teach you how.

NOTE:  We have been experiencing a temporary shortage of rya backings from Norway in sizes:  60×110 cm, 80×120 cm, and 80×150 cm.  All kits which come in those sizes are not available until shipments from Norway resume. 

While we did receive a 15 M bolt of the  16″ (40 cm) wide backing in December, But alas, it has sold out and more has been ordered.  Check back often.  I thank you for your patience.

Thankfully we recently received a 60 cm (24″) bolt from Sweden which can be used in all kits that are that wide.  The Swedish backing is woven with white wool; the Norwegian backing is woven of gray wool.

Please consider the excellent Finnish Backings in multiple widths, the USA-made budget backing made of acrylic, and a BRAND 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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Needle Block Organizer

$17.00

Rya Backings - Rauma (Norway) Currently experiencing shortages

Starting at 60.60

Rauma Prydvevgarn

$19.00 per 100 gram skein

Pack of Needles

$5.00
Swedish Backings

Swedish Backings

2 foot hemmed $74.00 2.5 foot hemmed $90.00

Lundgren Rya Yarn

$10.00 per 100 gram skein

Yarn Sample Packets

$15.00

Rya Backings

Woodcuts & Linocuts

Rya Kits

Rauma Ryegarn

$16.00 per 100 gram skein

Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers:

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Supplies: Woven backings, rya yarn,
needles, and kits
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Instructions and Classes
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Connection with Other Rya Rug Makers
via Facebook Group
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New Book: RYA RUGS—Design
and Make your Own

Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers:

^
Supplies: Woven backings, rya yarn,
needles, and kits
^
Instructions and Classes
^
Connection with Other Rya Rug Makers
via Facebook Group
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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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Byrdcall Studio, LLC
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PO Box 162
Woodbine, MD 21797