VERA Platform_721 Knitting and weaving practices "The know-how about curating, harvesting and selecting the best parts of the sheep wool and different uses according to its natural properties: socks, sweaters, woven fabrics and felted wools. Knitting has been a practiced traditionally carried out at home by women. Spinning, knitting and weaving was common knowledge un homes up until 100 years ago, when industrial production begun to take over home-made textiles. Knitting culture has survived in Lofoten to greater extends than in other European countries, and traditional pattern and techniques are still known. Every piece of clothing, being socks, sweaters, mittens or hats, requiere speceific knowledge about stitch density, patterning and wool texture. When industrial dyes were not widely available, local natural plants and likens would do the coloring. The knowledge about plant use was mostly orally transmitted for generations. Currently, some of said traditions can be found in crafting manuals and school education, all of which is used to produce unique sweaters in Lofoten wool. " iain Norwegian Intangable Heritage video/mp4 VIDEO University of St Andrews VERA Platform 687 "The know-how about curating, harvesting and selecting the best parts of the sheep wool and different uses according to its natural properties: socks, sweaters, woven fabrics and felted wools. Knitting has been a practiced traditionally carried out at home by women. Spinning, knitting and weaving was common knowledge un homes up until 100 years ago, when industrial production begun to take over home-made textiles. Knitting culture has survived in Lofoten to greater extends than in other European countries, and traditional pattern and techniques are still known. Every piece of clothing, being socks, sweaters, mittens or hats, requiere speceific knowledge about stitch density, patterning and wool texture. When industrial dyes were not widely available, local natural plants and likens would do the coloring. The knowledge about plant use was mostly orally transmitted for generations. Currently, some of said traditions can be found in crafting manuals and school education, all of which is used to produce unique sweaters in Lofoten wool. " video/mp4 Video "Ragnhild Lie shows how to knit with circular needles. Two threads (white and brown) are used to create a pattern." video/mp4 Elisabeth Rosa Brusin, Rebeca Franco Valle Video "Sweater Inspired by the historical photo of the North-Norwegian fisherman Johanner Folger\u00f8. The pattern desing became popular from the charismatic photo of the fisherman. These photos were taken on the occasion of the fishing exhibition in Bod\u00f8 in 1904. The organizers wanted a photograph of a typical northern Norwegian fisherman, for use in marketing. The photographer Louise Engen from Bod\u00f8 took the photos with Johannes Folger\u00f8 from Sandnessj\u00f8en as a model. He was 52 years old at the time, a fisherman and a well-known seiner, originally from Finn\u00e5s in Hordaland. Folger\u00f8 had probably moved to Helgeland around 1870, in connection with the rich herring fishery. After a period on D\u00f8nna, where he also married, the family settled in Sandnes in Sandnessj\u00f8en. Around 1893, Folger\u00f8 bought a seiner together with merchant Otto Koch in Bod\u00f8. The photos belong to the museum's Lillegaard collection. Lofoten wool has taken this traditional knitting pattern and transformed into its own design, giving a new ligth to the emblematic design. The origin of the pattern is probably from the Feroe islands, since it was from there where many Norwegian fisherman got their sweaters at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The Faroe Islands where great exporters of knitted goods to Scandinavia, but the history of this sweater needs to be researched in depth, something Ranghild is looking forward to do. " Movable Heritage "Yarn skein made out of Gammalnorsk sheep breed from the Lofoten islands, raw color." Movable Heritage "Yarn skein made out of Kvit Sau sheep breed from the Lofoten islands. It is dyed using local reinfann (Tanacetum vulgare). Double thread yarn, 315m pr. 100g." Movable Heritage "Sweater made out of local wool, using raw color yarn, and plant-dyed yarns." Movable Heritage "A square-shapen woven shall made out of locally sourced wool from the Lofoten Islands, died with Indigo." Movable Heritage 68.1490556685704 13.7622515654953