Denmark
We spent nearly 3 weeks touring Denmark. Some of the places we visited need their own pages.
A couple of museums had good exhibits about the dyeing process. Their separation in time makes an interesting contrast:
The Ladby ship burial is a fascinating place to visit, and they had some interesting textiles on show.
A couple of museums had good exhibits about the dyeing process. Their separation in time makes an interesting contrast:
- A Viking dye house.
- A 19th century works, in use until the 1920s.
The Ladby ship burial is a fascinating place to visit, and they had some interesting textiles on show.
This newspaper jumper was in a shop window in Ribe. You can buy the kit on-line: I might yet do that myself. It is a very simple idea, using alternate lines of stocking stitch to represent the lines of type, with occasional headlines.or pictures in blobs of colour.
Here is a very simple idea seen in a window in Ringkobing. Knit a couple of squares, sew them together, sew across the top two corners diagonally to make the ears, and you have a basic owl. A couple of circles for eyes, a bit of a beak, & you have a character. The circles could be crochet, felt, or embroidery. Why not add feet as well? You could use this basic idea to do:
- Cushions
- Cuddly toys
- Tea cosy
- Egg cosy
- Glove puppet
- Finger puppet
- Anyone got any more ideas?
This may look like a really impractical idea, but this bike covered in knitting is used as a shop sign outside the same shop in Ringkobing. You can tell it is frivolous because the saddle is covered with a sprinkling of daisies. Even so, in the interests of safety the tyres are made from a good deep tread making cable. The next time you are knitting one of those endless button bands folks, remember it could be worse. You could be knitting all the way round two bicycle wheels.
This curtain in Mariager Museum is an interesting combination of cut work & Irish crochet. It looks as though there are two layers of cotton embroidered separately, but I couldn't get close enough to tell.
This is a sample of darned knitting from the museum at Grenaa. It dates from 1958. It is a combination of:
- Swiss darning, a method of changing the colour of the surface in place of methods like intarsia & Fair Isle.
- Reinforcement.
- Mending holes.
A selection of traditional Danish headgear:
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