{"id":3647,"date":"2012-08-19T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:35:09","slug":"finnish-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/19\/finnish-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finnish Embroidery Design<\/p><\/div>\n

A few weeks ago, my husband the Australian was speaking at a conference in Turku, Finland, and the organisers were kind enough to allow me to go too. We had a marvellous time – the Finns are terrifyingly good linguists, so we had no language problems, and because the conference was about Science and Art, and how they feed off one another and contribute to one another, the conversations were very wide-ranging, full of sparkle and fun.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have much time for side trips, but I did find an embroidery shop, and asked about local rural Finnish embroidery. I picked a design I liked the look of, and they agreed to prepare a tracing for me and send it on. It seems to be in a combination of stem stitch and Bokhara couching, but when I’ve had a closer look at the stitch diagrams, I will be able to tell you more.<\/p>\n

This is what the lady in the shop told me about the design:<\/p>\n

You also asked for some information about the pattern, we have a book that tells a brief history of where the pattern was found. Of course, the original designer of the pattern is impossible to trace.<\/em><\/p>\n

The pattern was originally embroidered on a bag or pouch, that was hanged on the wall, where people put smaller newspapers and magazines into. That\u2019s why the pattern is called \u201dSanomia\u201d, it means messages or news in finnish. The word was also embroidered in the bag. We copied the model ourselves to other products, such as runners.<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201dSanomia\u201d-newspaper bag was found in the Kankaristo house, in country village of Myn\u00e4m\u00e4ki.<\/em><\/p>\n

The bag, that was found there, was sewn by the lady of the house, Helli Kankaristo, born in 1902. The story tells that she was taught to make embroideries by her very skillful teacher at school, and Helli passed her skills also to daughter Inkeri, born in 1928.<\/em><\/p>\n

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