Byrdcall Studio, LLC
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the Art of Rya Rug Making

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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 wool to last for generations—and we have the experience to teach you how.

NOTE:  Good News!  Norwegian backings are back in stock. We have 40, 60, and 80 cm wide backings as well as some larger ones.  The bad news is several colors are temporarily unavailable in the Rauma Ryegarn.  Most significant deficit is #516 (a dark natural gray) at the moment.  Rauma is behind in their sample cards production, so I am sending quality photocopies of the Ryegarn and Prydvevgarn sample cards.  The samples package is still a great buy at $15 and includes the Lundgren Rya cards as well as swatches of the many rya backings we now carry.  During the sample card shortage, I will gladly send you snips of the colors you are considering if you are not sure what to order from the photocopy card.  Just ask.

 Check back often.  Thank you for your patience.

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

$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
^

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