Emigranterna

This weave tells ut about the emigrants from Sweden to America in the 19th century, about their hard-working lives but also how they could create a better life for themselves and their grandchildren. The American trunk was quickly filled with the essentials, tools, axes, and gunpowder horns were packed. The women's wool teasel and other weaving tools would also be included, also the three-legged coffee kettel. Bedding was packed in bags. Hand-woven multicolored bolsters as well. Wooden plates to eat on were placed in the trunk and rye loafs was also brought on the trip.  They were never to  forget the last steps on the cobblestoned roads to the quay of the home port and the yellow-painted houses in the background.This is how the trying voyage begins with the emigrant ship that sails with full sail towards the unknown land on the other side of the great sea. The first thing the emigrants came in contact with was Castle Garden - an old castle in New York harbor. Everyone was thin after the many days at sea, the men were generally bearded. Among the first items purchased in New York were jugs of fresh milk. River boats and paddle steamers were common transport for further travel west. There they came into contact for the first time with the Indians. In the 1850s, the train was a novelty for emigrants. A more common means of transportation, was the covered wagon that carried our emigrants further across the vast American continent, toward sunset and the distant mountains to the west. Two small emigrant children at the end of the road. They would be able to help build the new country of the future for many years to come. Bigger house for the growing family, bigger garden, bigger trees, bigger flowers. Everything in America was the largest in the world. Would they find happiness in this new blessed land?

Technique: Bound rosepath

Reed: 40/10, 4 shafts and 4 pedals

Size: 45 x 120 cm

Includes Weaving Pattern and weft

1-Pack  Warp 2,40 m

2-Pack Warp 4,40 m

3-Pack Warp 5,40 m

OBS! Warp is not included. 

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