Fjellstrand People

Traditions

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Garments

Most garments in the mountained regions the Fjellstrand people live on, are made of goat-wool, but their garments are not color coded like their blankets or rugs.

Goat Wool Blankets

Woven blankets are dyed with certain colors to identify the intended recipient's stage in life, their goals, or their progression to their goals.
Red is used to identify travel, blue for a season without travel. Green for a good harvest or a season where the person had work, orange for a poor season.
Blankets are given to the individuals at birth, coming of age, the birth of a child, the adoption of a child, and when a child comes of age. Other blankets may also be given as gifts, but are not as traditionally meaningful as those traditional givings.
This tradition may have roots from the mythical Goliaths, as Fjellstrand is almost the only region where goat wool is used for blankets, garment,s and rugs. Fjellstrand is, however, the only region where the weaving is used to record history, though the weavers who can read the older tapestries are dwindling and apprentices to learn are fewer and fewer with each passing Cycle. At some point, the patterns and meanings changed to their modern renditions.

Goat Wool Rugs

Like the blankets, the colors are used to identify the recipient. Rugs are often patterned with wishes for the future using the white wool twisted around the color to indicate the future.

Traditions

Coming of Age

Every adult receives a blanket and a rug upon coming of age recording their life so far, or recording hopes for the future.

Death and Memorial

The dead are buried with their oldest intact blanket, while their survivors divide the whole blankets amongs themselves and add the blankets to their beds for a year.