Maja Lomovceva erinnert sich an das Erlernen der Nähtechniken

After Daria Adukanova recalls sewing as a child, Maja Lomovtseca first introduces her mother, to whom she owes much of her knowledge and craftsmanship (2:01). She then recounts how she learned sewing techniques as a child (5:14). Finally, she explains in detail how the skins must be prepared before sewing.

"Back then, in the reindeer camp, I was just a little girl, they already taught me to sew so that the seam was tight. They gave us reindeer leg furs to sew. One day I cut and sewed incorrectly and I showed it to my mother: “Look,” I said, “how I did the cutting”. I was little, I think, not even five years old. She said, one doesn’t sew like that, why are you so incorrigible? How should a child know, she should have shown me how to start with. She should have told us before so that we would know how. I got upset and threw the fur aside, and I said that I would never sew again, although I soon learned to sew reindeer leg fur correctly. Since then, I love to sew, and I learned to sew in the right way after traveling. I watched the Koryaks dancing in their kukhlianki. And I said to myself, why don’t we wear our own traditional clothes? I will also make a parka for myself. Ashamed I began to sew, to show that Evens also know how to sew, and that they wear their traditional clothing."

Recorded by Erich Kasten. Esso, 1999.