Cat.Nr. a-012 object: Klas-Brita Socke found: Tuna, Medelpad (L. Schmitt) stored: Nordiska Museum, 198.296 (L. Schmitt) time: 20. Jahrhundert(L. Schmitt) stitch: description: kurze Socke. Solche Socken werden über dem Stiefel getragen. Klas-Brita starb 1963, nach ihr wurde eine bestimmte Art von Socken benannt, deren Typus sicher viel älter ist. Üblich sind F1 UO/UOO und F1 UOO/UUOO (L. Schmitt) publications: L. Schmitt at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nalbinding/message/1038 Brodén pictures: Deutsch: . Cat.Nr. b-003 object: 2 mittens found: Arnheiðarstaðir, Island (Hald) stored: Isländisches Nationalmuseum, Inv.Nr.: Pjms 3.405 (Hald) time: 10. Jh. AD (Hald) stitch: F1 UO/UOO (Hald) description: Wolle (Hald) publications: Hald, Margrethe. Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials: S. 304 Nordland, Odd; Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless Netting, Oslo 1961, S. 41 Deutsch: Nr. b-005 object: Mitten found: Old Town Oslo/Norwegen (personal communication with G. Böttcher) stored: ...; Inv.Nr.: C 28.155 (personal communication with G. Böttcher) time: 11th century (personal communication with G. Böttcher) stitch: Stitch II, F1 UO/UOO, 4.12-technique (personal communication with G. Böttcher) description: Wolle (personal communication with G. Böttcher) publications: Nordland, Odd; Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless Netting, Oslo 1961, S. 42, 43. Deutsch: Fausthandschuh Wolle 11.Jh.n.Chr. Altstadt Oslo Nr. b-006 object: mitten found: Lund/Sweden, bogfind (Hald) stored: Museum Kulturen, Lund (Hald) time: 14/15th century AD (Hald) stitch: F1 UO/UOO (personal communication with G. Böttcher) description: publications: Hald, Margrethe. Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials: S. 303, 304 "Lundavanten" in: Kulturen, en arsbok till meldlemmarna av Kunsthistoriska Föreningen för Södra Sverige, Letter 5th May 1943, Lund 1945 Nordland, Odd; Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless Netting, Oslo 1961, S. 43. Deutsch: Nr. b-018 object: Handschuh, Fragmente found: Frauengrab, Kaukola Kekomäki 1893 (Krista Vajanto) stored: National board of Antiquities KM 2489: 40 and 49 (Krista Vajanto) time: 13. Jh. (Krista Vajanto) stitch: Fx UO/UOO (Krista Vajanto) description: S-Zwirn; Wolle natürl. weiß oder gelb. Dekoration: blau oder grün und rot oder braun. Streifen durch Farbwechsel. (Krista Vajanto) publications: Krista Vajanto at:
http://www.vajanto.net/neulakinnas/fragments.htm pictures: [1 (Krista Vajanto)] [2 (Krista Vajanto)] [3 (Krista Vajanto)] [4 (Krista Vajanto)] [5 (Krista Vajanto)] [6 (Krista Vajanto)] Deutsch: Cat.Nr. d-003 object: Decken found: Nordamerika stored: Das Vesterheim Museum hat eine bedeutende Anzahl dieser Decken time: Ende 19, Anf 20. Jh stitch: F1 (U) U/O O:U U, seltener (U) O/U O:U U description: The rug stitch shown in the Bittersweet article appears to be B1 UO/UUU Anyone interested in the toothbrush rugs will of course want to track down Lila Nelson's articles on them in the Fall, 1987 Weaver's Journal, and in the Spring, 1984 Minnesota Weaver Quarterly. In addition to the stitch described in the Bittersweet article, I have seen the following stitches used to make rag rugs: F1 /O with a core F1 UO/UOO F1 (or B1) UO/UOU Mid1 (U) O/U O:U U There are likely to be others as well. For those of you interested in Depression era welfare programs in the US, the first stitch (F1 /O with a core) is one that was used by the WPA to manufacture rugs for use by US Post Office mail-sorters at their workstations. Incidentally if you know of any surviving rugs, and can document their origins, you have something that belongs in a museum. The only hitch is that these items remain the property of the US Government (even though they may have been sold or thrown away), and the question of ownership might make donation something of a nightmare. The last stitch (Mid1 (U) O/U O:U U) is the one Lila Nelson describes. The printed directions for this stitch are - needless to say - rather confusing. Lila indicates that many variations of this stitch developed. One can imagine that the stitch described in the Bittersweet article is an example of one such permutation. Mid1 (U) O/U O:U U is quite interesting for two reasons: First, it bears some resemblance to the stitch used in the Åsle mitten, and, more importantly, the stitch is also found in an old milk strainer from Sweden. This appears to be the best evidence we have that "Swedish" toothbrush rugs really are Swedish. Personally I prefer to think of these rugs as an American pioneer tradition - with probable Scandinaviain origins. Larry Schmitt publications:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nalbinding/message/951 Deutsch: Cat.Nr. g-002 object: Acht Fragmente found: Nowgorod stored: time: 1. Hälfte d. 10. Jh. stitch: F1 UO/UOO description: publications: Nahlik, Adam; Tkaniny Welniane Importowane i Miejscowe Nowogrodu Wielkiego X-XV Wieku; Kraków 1964, S. 60-62, 143; Abb 18 Hutchinson, Elaine; 'Nalebinding: the history origins, construction and use of 'needle-binding' with specific reference to the 'Coopergate sock'', 1995. Deutsch:
