{"id":5212,"date":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2014\/11\/14\/hardanger\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"hardanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Hardanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--single.php--><\/p>\n<p><!--loop-->\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t        <!--navigation--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!--post title--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace2\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!--content with more link--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18817\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0769.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0769\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\"><\/p>\n<p>Hardanger is famous for two things. It\u00b4s fjord and it\u00b4s embroidery. The fjord is very scenic, and is frequently visited by large cruise-ships. The embroidery has gotten it\u00b4s international name for their own version of white-work-embroidery, used in their bunads. It\u00b4s also used in interior textiles, such as table-cloths.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18818\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0770.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0770\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I am once again at the textile-culture workshop, and this time we started of at Hardanger Museum in Utne. There was a lot of interesting thing to see there, but today\u00b4s post is all about the Hardanger embroidery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_0771.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0771\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\"><\/p>\n<p>We saw some awesome examples of fine craftmanship. Like the apron in the second photo, especially made for the 1900 world Expo in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Or the tablecloth above. The linen it is sewn on is so finely woven with thin threads, and this type of embroidery is all about counting threads, to make sure the pattern will turn out correct. The details here are so fine and whoever sew this must have had sharper eyesight than me, that\u00b4s for sure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_0772.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0772\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\"><\/p>\n<p>To be perfectly honest with you, I\u00b4ve had a ambvivalent relationship with this craft since i worked long and hard on a small tablecloth in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade. That was 30 years ago and it\u00b4s still not finished\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18821\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0788.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0788\" width=\"450\" height=\"214\"><\/p>\n<p>So guess what our little activity was time time: Hardanger embroidery!<\/p>\n<p>There are two main parts of the embroidery. The basic stich, which binds the backing fabric. Usually that is 5 stitches lying above each other in a row, each over 4 threads. Then a vertigal row, and a new horizontal\u2026 As above..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18822\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0790.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0790\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\"><\/p>\n<p>Once I did the outer ring, framing my little piece, it was time to cut out all the threads that were bound by the stitches made. When done, it looked like this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18823\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0792.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0792\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\"><\/p>\n<p>Ok. Time for the second stitch: an 8-stitch, which holds together the remaining threads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18824\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0793.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0793\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\"><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the lesson, I\u00b4m still not finished, but my broken realtionship with Hardanger-embroidery of 30 years is now healed. I mastered it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18825\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_0795.gif\" alt=\"_MG_0795\" width=\"450\" height=\"219\"><\/p>\n<p>                       <!--for paginate posts--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!--all options over and out--><\/p>\n<p>\t<!--include comments template--><\/p>\n<p><!-- You can start editing here. --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. --><\/p>\n<p>        <!--do not delete--><\/p>\n<p><!--single.php end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardanger is famous for two things. It\u00b4s fjord and it\u00b4s embroidery. 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