What an amazing place this is. Echoes of the familiar and yet so very different! I have been out gathering materials where the the River Blanda flows into the Húnaflói bay at Blönduós and the beaches at Kálfshamarsvík.
Last season’s dried lyme-grass and lupin stems from Blönduós; kelp and angelica stems washed up amongst the basalt columnars along the shore line of Kálfshamarsvík.
Using a palmbinding technique, the lyme-grass makes a strong cordage which can be made into the base of a single looped basket. The length of cordage grows quickly, but trimming and tidying the ends left behind takes the time.
The soft, sandy colours of the dried grass reflect the tussocks now greening over on the hillsides and those contrasted against the black sand of the shore.
Annette Mills
