Nordic embroidery

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Nordic Eight Point Star Grid — Aleks Byrd Designs Baltic Symbols Lithuania Tattoo, Heritage Tattoo, Norway Tattoo, Norwegian Tattoo, Latvian Symbols, Eight Point Star, Scandinavian Tattoo, Scandinavian Embroidery, Nordic Tattoo

While I love the seeing the motifs put into geographical context on a map, it is also nice to see them lined up in a grid to see the variation and similarities within a country and beyond. It also shows a progression of the eight point star shape from a motif made of eight parallelogram shapes to th

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The Norwegian National Costume (or "Bunad" as it is called in norwegian) is often heavily decorated with embroidery. What makes this garment so special is that they are all hand made and all the embroidery is done by hand. To be able to make a "bunad" you have to take make course and be taught how to do it correctly. We (by me meaning norwegians) are very proud of our culture and history and despite it being easier to do this by machine it is part of our cultural history that they are hand…