Monday, May 12, 2025

Denmark - Black Diamond Library 19th-century women and crochet

 In 2016, one of my interesting projects was to research the 19th-century female hand art magazines in the Black Diamond Library.


The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
Source: https://www.kb.dk/




Linda Art Cph: Black Diamond Library
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Those journals were written in a different Danish language. I could understand it, as before I studied German and Swedish as well. 

Those journals were digitized, and in the library, there was a special room, where on the computer, I could research the dias... 



Linda Art Cph: Crochet Patterns from the 19th Century of Denmark
Source: YouTube


That time, I recreated several patterns, some had only a picture and no description, but I was experienced in crochet. I started crocheting when I was 4 years old. 

In Vanløse, I had a workshop about this historical crochet as well. 




Linda Art Cph: Exhibition and Workshop - Crochet Projects
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