Midsummer night on Fingering - Mulberry Silk




Midsummer night on Fingering - Mulberry Silk
100 % Mulberry silk
400 meters per 100 g skein
This is a thicker version of Lace - Mulberry Silk. And as the thiner version it is pure luxury 100% grade A mulberry silk. This yarn is perfect for when you want the shine and drape a pure silk yarn gives but with a little more substans than you get with a laceweight.
Midsummer night is magical in the northern lands. It is so short and it hardly gets dark, even as far south as southern Norway. It is a time for being outside and enjoying the half light full of navy shades. Midsummer celebrations are still important in Scandinavia.
In Norse times, midsummer was likely was marked with one of the main Blòts of the year. Blòt was a religious ceremony. Animals, and perhaps also people, were sacrificed to the gods. They sacrificed to Odin, the god of war and wisdom, for victory, and to fertility gods like Freyr, Freya and Njord for a good year and peace. Kin and friends were important at these occasions when people came together. It is likely that offerings were also made to the ancestors and that they drank to both those that had been and to those who were yet to come.
This colourway was made as a 70th birthday gift to a very dear friend.
A dark navy blue like the darkest part of the summer night