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Length of fabric using ‘Auseklis’ motif - Zemgale Region, Latvia

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Length of fabric using ‘Auseklis’
motif - Zemgale Region, Latvia
Created by Anna Apinis,
weaver
Image copyright: Museum Victoria
Photographer: Rodney Start

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Anna Apinis is a Latvian weaver who came to Australia in 1950. She made this piece for an order for a national costume to be worn at Latvian functions. Although it was made as a skirt length it was displayed as a wall hanging for many years. The pattern features the Northern Star or ‘Auseklis’ motif, one of the most popular motifs in Latvian design. It was made on the traditional countermarch draw loom using 17 shafts. Anna brought this loom with her from Germany.

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Length of fabric using ‘Auseklis’ motif - Zemgale Region, Latvia

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Handcrafts class, Latvia, 1931

Portrait of Anna Apinis, 1937

Ervins and Anna Apinis on their wedding day, 1938

Memmingen Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, c. 1945

Anna Apinis teaching weaving, 1948

Building at Parkes Holding Centre, NSW, 1950

Group of Women outside Parkes Holding Centre, NSW, 1950

Anna Apinis outside Parkes Holding Centre, NSW, 1950

Anita Apinis on her christening day, 1953

The Apinis family at Revesby, 1960

Welding workshop, Clyde Railway Station, 1960

International Day, c. 1960

Graduating class of Sydney's Latvian Primary School, 1963

Notes and drawings by Anna Apinis

Ervins Apinis' technical drawings for Anna's weaving loom, c. 1949

Kivicka Loom at the Immigration Museum

Kivicka Loom at the Immigration Museum (1)

Ervins Apinis demonstrating the unplying machine, 1998

Eltham Secondary College students looking at the Apinis loom

Kivicka Loom at the Immigration Museum (2)

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Length of fabric using ‘Auseklis’ motif - Zemgale Region, Latvia

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The Apinis Loom