Jenni Sahramaa

Tosi kiinnostava tutkimus! Huomiona noista metodeista, että lajimäärityksen kannalta keskeinen oli proteiiniamalyysi, jota on nyt ruvettu käyttämään nahan tunnistamisessa enemmänkin. Lisäksi kansisidoksia oli tutkittu ihan visuaalisesti nahan pintakuviointia ja karboja katsomalla. Ei siis vain DNA!

Lehti on suomeksi.

Today I am tired and have a sick child home, so thinking and writing are mostly out of the question. Having a cup of tea now, and happily reading the new number of Arkeologia Nyt -magazine with several interesting articles and also a short story about the Museology course I taught during the winter.

Today I and @mervipasanen.bsky.social gave a lecture, once again, on the lady of Kirkkailanmäki dress reconstruction. The event was hosted by Lahti Historical museum, as is our reconstruction. This time we even got all three existing dresses to the same picture!

This week I again started working as part-time Cultural Producer for Vantaa-Seura society. Especially looking forward to working for Helsinga Medieval Day again - you can put August 9 2025 to your calendars already! #vantaaseura #helsingankeskiaikapäivä

Näyttääpä hyvältä!

Euran esihistoriaseminaari tulee taas!
La 22.3.2025 klo 9-16
Euran yhteiskoulun auditorio

Iltapäivällä rautakauden pukukavalkadi, esittelijöinä Jenni Sahramaa ja Mervi Pasanen

Ohjelma: www.eura.fi/tapahtumat/e...

Hinta 25€, ilmoittaudu viimeistään 13.3.:
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A lecture and a fashion show in Finnish coming up on March!

Kirkkailanmäen emäntä – uusi muinaispuku Päijät-Hämeestä
Luento Lahden Historiallisessa museon Hyvä paikka -luentosarjassa
Ti 18.3.2025 klo 17–19

Arkeologi Jenni Sahramaa ja käsityömestari Mervi Pasanen @mervipasanen.bsky.social

Tutkijan tärkeimpiä yhteiskunnallisia tehtäviä on vastata @hs.fi Lasten tiedekysymyksiin. Oskari 6v. kysyi, milloin harrastaminen keksittiin ja mikä oli ensimmäinen harrastus. Ei mikään helppo kysysymys, mutta vastasin parhaani mukaan.

Now travelling home and listening to #manserock: Juice Leskinen, Popeda and Eppu Normaali all road long.

At #pelimuseo the Odysseus exhibition was small yet captivating, showcasing the incredible amount of volunteer work hours spent at producing the biggest scifi larp in Finnish gaming history.

Today we ended our winter holiday at #vapriikki in Tampere. Kids were mesmerized by the #songlines exhibition’s stories of Seven sisters and Australian art and the landscape.

Today I found especially inspiring Sam Bennett’s talk on teaching teenagers from New York how to mend clothes - and how this kind of slow craft practise was both difficult and important to young people living in a fast moving world.

One of the highlights of the conference was Timo Rissanen’s talk on Australian leather title sashes, as it illustrated perfectly how certain aspects of our culture are not researched or recorded, if they are used in subcultures that are considered marginal.

Great two days of #artefacta2025 conference are drawing up close. The keynote ending the day is given by anthropologist Daniel Miller online, as the agency of things was demonstrated to him with the misplacement of his passport. The last row of the seminar room is engaged in craft activities.

Mä katoin tota samaa kirjaa kirjastossa taannoin, kun mietin, että nyt vielä 9-vuotiaan kohdalla tuntuu kaukaiselta, mutten halua olla aivan kuutamolla sit kun ei enää tunnukaan. Huvältä vaikutti.

If you wish to see the Kirkkailanmäki ancient costume reconstruction, it is housed at Lahti Historical Museum, Finland.

Fortunately, we got help from Estonian craft specialist Jaana Ratas, who has lots of experience working with spirals and horsehair. Jaana gave tips on how the stiff material could be treated to be able to use it, and ended up doing the actual ornaments for the costume reconstruction.

The spiral ornaments in this early 13th grave were interesting to study, as they had no exact parallels found in Finland. Moreover, they were threaded in with horsehair, a material we were not familiar to work with. After studying the patterns, we learned that we need help with the reconstruction.

Today we gave a presentation together with @mervipasanen.bsky.social on spiral tube decorations in Hollola Kirkkailanmäki grave 4/1978 at #artefacta2025 Conference.
📷 Krista Wright

#artefacta2025 Conference is now on! Professor Riikka Räisänen welcomes object researchers from all around the world to the University of Helsinki.

#Artefacta2025 conference is coming soon! Today I put together a small exhibition of textile research photos, both artefacts and microscopy. Some of these fibres are quite groovy! #research #photography #microarchaeology

I also have to add that I truly appreciate the fact that we have these communal #weaving stations, and the possibility to attend #craft courses at #helsingintyöväenopisto ❤️

Most difficult thing here was to weave loosely enough, as the fabric will be felted. The original, found from early 13th c. female grave from Ravattula Ristimäki near Turku, is one of the earliest finds of fabric socks in Northern Europe. It was dyed red with madder (Rubia tinctoria).

This week, I have mostly been weaving. It is a hobby, but also part of the way how I build understanding of archaelogical textiles I study. This fabric is for the socks of the #ravattuladress, #ancientcostume from late #ironage Finland.

Sanoisin, että ehdottomasti Pohjois-Karjala.

Do you know the feeling when you just can’t get something out of your mind without actually doing ot? Today I spent hours looking at something that I am not even researching on, at least not yet 🫣😅

Tiedelehtien portaalissa Journal.fi luetuin artikkeli on arkeologian ja käsityön yhdistämistä. Neljän kirjoittajan joukossa @jsahramaa.bsky.social ja @mervipasanen.bsky.social

Oho!

So, an #Introduction. I am an archaeologist and doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. My focus is in the Finnish Late Iron Age, textiles and clothing, experimental archaelogy and reconstructions. I also do historical reenactment and lots of crafts whenever I can.