Textiles as a cultural inheritance
The tradition in home–made textiles is enormously rich. In
the following part of this material it is possible to pick up only
some of the characteristic parts of the common weavings and handicrafts
from our studying area.
Weaving the daily used bed linen, covers and basic clothing materials,
took most of the time that was possible to use for handicrafts.
Women had been preparing most of their beautiful clothing and textiles
in their youth, before marriage, but the people of the household
also needed clothes to put on and a bed to sleep in.
Beautiful and fascinating large weavings are the striped fabrics
for skirts from the western and middle part of Finland, piled rugs
collected from the southern and middle part of Finland and needle–work
decorated sleigh covers from the western part, just to name some
of the most striking ones. Smaller handicrafts named here are ribbons
woven or braided with a rigid heddle, tablet loom or picked up ribbons.
Among the knitting tradition one may find the special western Korsnäs
sweater and crocheted decorative “fur belt” and needle
mitten. The bonnet was a loved accessory which stayed until the
middle of eighteen hundreds in the western and middle parts of Finland.
In Karelia, East- Karelia and Ural areas, embroidery has grown to
a real folk art. More examples of embroidery and other decorations
are found in the part “Message of Folk Costume”.
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