Byrdcall Studio, LLC
Reviving and Sharing
the Art of Rya Rug Making
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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 wool 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 40cm,60cm and 80cm widths. All kits which come in those sizes are not available until shipments from Norway resume.
Check back often. Thank you for your patience.
We also have 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 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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Needle Block Organizer
$19.00
Rya Backings - Rauma (Norway) Currently experiencing shortages
Starting at 60.60
Rauma Prydvevgarn
Pack of Needles
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
Byrdcall Studio, LLC offers:
needles, and kits
via Facebook Group
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
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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