Dalby mitten brooches

Dalby mitten brooches

The knitted miniature mittens brooches are made in the nålbidning of Northen Värmland with black wool yarn, and white wool yarn with flower embroidery and decorated with borders of red wool yarn. The embroidery have the traditional flowers of the mittens such as: rose, viola/pansy and myosotis/forget-me-nots. The red border around is ”crows kicks”, and marks where the mittens was made.

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2020s (before 2025)

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Swedish

Physical Object

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Dalbyvantar broscher

02/09/2025

08/09/2025

Vinterblomster. Nålbundna vantar från Dalby i Värmland. Elisabet Jacks Svantesson. ISBN 9789163391026

7cm x 0.5cm x 3cm

current,60.71118,12.88606;

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Trysil Garn Sportsgarn, three stranded 100% wool yarn. Uses leftover strans for embroidery. Brosch needle of metal.

Cultural

fibre and textile crafts

Needle made from moose bone, pattern templates, embroidery needle, pliers, chochet needle. Also uses a glass of water and ”såpa”, gel like (toilet) soap made from fat and potassium, to moist the fingers to help splice the threads and yarn. Saliva is also possible to use.

Sysslebäck, Sweden

Bengtsson buys her yarn in Norway, at Europris. trysilgarn.europris.no

Made with nålbindning technique, see RV_CP_06 for further information.

Brooches for decorating clothes or to use for the local folk costume. A decorative piece that showes the old traditions in a minitaure way.

For sale

Bengtsson has made about 30 pieces

The brosch is a miniature of the Dalby mitten. See RV_AR_27 for futher information.

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