#nalbinding #nalbound #yarncrafts #craftingscience 🧶🪡🧵

Two ends of Karelian ritual cloth, embroidered with red yarn, with a goddess, birds on her arms and trees of life growing off her skirt. White Aida, with small crocheted lace at the bottom.

Althought crafts are very much part of the material world, crafting in the other hand is very strongly immaterial.

What aspects of the immateriality are the important factors for you in crafting?

🧶 #KnitSky #YarnCrafts #CraftingScience #MaterialCulture #SlowFashion

A hand is holding a knitted white tube with very fine metallic needles.

How about some knee-high colourwork socks? (collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio... )

10 stitches and 15 rows, knitted with 1,5mm needles, in cotton-silk blend with 800m/100g.

#CraftingScience #ArchaeologicalTextiles
#YarnCrafts
#KnitSky
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Two nalbound hand covers, at front the Åsle mitten in reddish-brown yarn and wide cuff. Åsle mitten lays on white support blank. At back the Kalmar glove is greyish brown and and the researcher is holding the wrist open with gloved hand. Kalmar glove lays on paper little lower than the Åsle mitten.

One of the absolute amazing moments on our trip to Sweden was seeing these two hand covers side by side. At the front, probably the most known #Nalbinding mitten, the Åsle mitten and at the back the Kalmar glove. (Yes, we also saw the Lödöse mitten, but in different museum). #CraftingScience 🧶

Two rosette-shape decorations with metal thread and some other material.

Another museum visited, another wonderfull sock (and a most intrigue shoe lining!) seen, but again a photo of something completely else! Decorations found from Helgeandsholm, Stockholm. Thank you Medeltidsmuseum for hosting us! #CraftingScience 🧶

Gilded print "Hald Olddanske Tekstiler" on light coloured book spine.

The name page of Olddanske Tekstiler by Margrethe Hald, published in Kopenhagen in 1950.

Academic goals in life: Write a dissertation, that researchers will want to see as the original printed copy 40+ years after you have died and 75 years after the dissertation was published. Maybe because it still is one of two doctoral dissertations of #Nalbinding
#CraftingScience #AcademicGoals 🧶

An open box with 7 old women's silk caps, known in Swedish as bindmössa. Caps have floral symbol embroidery and all of them have seen better days. One cap is brown, two are green, one was lilac and three are cream coloured.

I know, we were there to see a sock, but if you get to simultaniously look at amazing women's silk caps, you don't say no to! Thank you for hosting us Östergötlands museum! #BindMössa #FolkDress #Embroidery #Silk #CraftingScience #YarnCrafts 🧶

A small collection of nalbound mittens on storage paper on a table. Left a partially embroidered one with floral theme, a white mitten under neath it, a pair of white and a pair of gray mittens, a start of nalbound mitten with a ball of yarn and the needle used to make it.

After about 700km and 24 hours of traveling (got to sleep some of them) the first visit of the trip is done. Amazing #Nalbinding, even more amazing company and a lot of complaining about the head lights, but that's life! Thank you Upland museum for hosting us! #CraftingScience #YarnCrafts 🧶