{"id":8585,"date":"2016-07-24T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:45:49","slug":"norway-research-trip-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2016\/07\/24\/norway-research-trip-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway research trip wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope that you have enjoyed my diary from my trip to Norway in 2014 to research for Early-Style Hardanger<\/a>. I certainly enjoyed reliving it!<\/p>\n

All the posts are listed in order below so that you can check whether you missed any.
\nDay 1 and 2 – Sydney to Oslo<\/a>
\nDay 3 – Olso to Bergen<\/a>
\nDay 4 – Norwegian Constitution Day, Bergen<\/a>
\nDay 5 – Bergen to Utne<\/a>
\nDay 6 – Hardanger Folkemuseum<\/a>
\nDay 7, 8 and 9 – Heading home<\/a><\/p>\n

I did want to address something from the final post. The taxi driver who took me to the airport wondered how you could gain enough knowledge to write a book from just a few days. The answer to that is that I didn’t! Much of my research was done beforehand, and much was done afterwards. But the important thing for me in a trip like this is to visit the place where the embroidery comes from, learn about the culture, meet the people, and SEE as many historical examples as I can. <\/p>\n

I don’t go knowing nothing, and expecting to learn it all there. I learn as much as I can before so that I have good questions to ask. I see the work, speak to curators and artisans, and ask as many questions as I can. Conversations happen in person that just don’t happen over email.
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Visiting Is Sinnus cultural association in Teulada, Sardinia<\/p><\/div>You can see small details that you’d never see in a book or on the internet. Much of the time those pictures don’t show you the back of the work, or how a garment is constructed, or how something is hemmed. These are the sorts of things you can learn with a curator or embroiderer at your side.<\/p>\n

And sometimes it is only through seeing the work in person that you can understand scale, fabrics, threads etc. I wouldn’t have believed that linen thread could look as shiny as silk, if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. Fine, fine Hardanger on 50ish count linen isn’t something you see most days, but you can at the Hardanger Folkemuseum.<\/p>\n

It is these things that I go to see, and why my research trips are invaluable to me as a needlework historian. I am convinced that this research and the photos that I take while I am there, make my books much, much better than if I stayed at home and did it all by remote.<\/p>\n

It has been lovely to receive so many emails and messages over the past week telling me how much you’re enjoying the travel diary. Thanks! It’s always nice to know that you’re producing interesting content that people actually want to read! <\/p>\n

Would you like to experience Sardinia and Guimar\u00e3es by reading along and armchair travelling via the diaries from my research trips there? Would that be of interest to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope that you have enjoyed my diary from my trip to Norway in 2014 to research for Early-Style Hardanger. I certainly enjoyed reliving it!<\/p>\n

All the posts are listed in order below so that you can check whether you missed any. Day 1 and 2 – Sydney to Oslo Day 3 – Olso to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,11,6,29,31,65,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-style-hardanger","category-embroidery-musings","category-hardanger","category-historical-embroidery","category-travel","category-white-threads","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}