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The Depository documents 3 techniques in Iceland; by risk level: 2 endangered, 1 stable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The tanning of fish skin — primarily wolffish, salmon, cod, and perch — into supple, durable leather, a craft documented in Iceland since at least the 9th–12th century settlement period, when fish-skin footwear and other leather goods were…
The Icelandic lopapeysa (lopi sweater) tradition — the production of the distinctive Icelandic circular yoke sweater knitted in unspun or lightly spun Icelandic lopi wool whose characteristic patterned yoke (combining two or more colors in…
The construction of small, open wooden boats using the clinker (overlapping-plank) method — thin planks fastened to a keel-and-stem backbone, with each plank's edge overlapping the one below and the overlapping seams fastened together with…