Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in 1951 to a Swedish Sami family that sewed their own clothes and winter shoes, as was then common. Embroidery is threaded throughout the visual vocabulary of Sapmi, the region of northern Scandinavia that is home to the Sami people – not least in gakti, the traditional costume stitched with ornate designs. It’s hardly surprising, then, that while studying art in
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