saami crafts
fall/winter 2008/9


Combine Past and Present!

The Austrian fashion agency room with a view (divisions in Salzburg and Zurich) selected the unique Swedish jewellery named after Scandinavia’s indigenous population, the Saami – the people of the sun and the wind - as one of the Must Have's in this fall/winter.

Room with a view work with more than 30 international fashion brands such as 7 For All Mankind, Peuterey, Giorgio Brato, George Gina & Lucy, Ed Hardy ...

The Past
The saami craft bracelets, rings, necklaces are made of leather and tin-silver. Some pieces are decorated with a ring of reindeer horn. They are modern as well as traditional pieces. The centuries’ old skills of making the jewellery can still be found until today in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. The unique pieces are hand-crafted in northern Sweden by using materials provided by Mother Nature: vegetable-tanned reindeer leather, reindeer horn, and thread made from silver-tin alloy.

The Present
Contemporary trends influence the collection in colors and materials: so you will find lambskin in much more colors than the vegetable-tanned reindeer leather; some of the colors of the "Modern Line" are pretty vibrant.


Room with a view offers on their site a selection of trendy labels, a guide for selected cities like Salzburg, Zurich, Milano, Barcelona, Los Angeles, New York, ... www.roomwithaview.at.

saami crafts Find a store or shop online www.saami-crafts.com.


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fig.: Bracelets made of tin-silver thread with additional leather braiding. The closure is made of a button of reindeer horn and leather.