EPLE blue

Repeat ca 2 x 2 cm. Width 145 cm. 

Hedemark open air museum, Hamar, Norway. inv.nr: OF-6152

The original fabric is a block printed cotton used as a lining of a girls bonnet from Løten, Norway, made of brocaded silk with a dark brown ground. The red ground of the lining was probably produced as a reserve print, leaving the berries white, and then block printed in brownish black. The print can be dated to the first decade of the 19th century. Similar prints were produced in Denmark and that might be the origin also of this fabric.