Kersti kindad/Gloves for Kersti

Need arhailisest mulgi tikandist inspireeritud kindad valmisid Kerstile, kes oma asjade tegemisel kasutab sama alglätet küllaltki sageli. Minult soovis ta kindaid ühele olemasolevale valgele tikanditega mantlile. Et mulgi tikandit on viimasel ajal kõvasti üleekspluateeritud ja ma ei tahtnud mingil juhul kõike olemasolevat korrata (s.h oma eelmisi töid), siis esitas see ülesanne mulle päris korraliku väljakutse. Kuidas kasutada neid motiive nii, et nad mõjuksid värskelt ja ei tekitaks kogenud vaatajates ööki - vaat see oli paras pähkel. Aga selliseid pähkleid krõmpsutada mulle just meeldibki. Tervelt nädalakese ei tulnud ühtegi head mõtet, kuid siis lõin tikandiraamatu lahti ja voila! - silma hakkasid mulgi ninarätikute joonised. Keskse motiivi laenasingi siis ühelt vähetuntud karula rätikult ja ülejäänud ehitasin ise juurde. Otse loomulikult muutsin ka värve. Kuna tikand ise pidi tulema üpris rammus, siis randme otsustasin seekord tagasihoidlikult ühevärviliseks jätta, lisades vaid pronkshelmeste rea.

These are handknitted and embroidered gloves inspired by Mulgi medieval embroidery (Mulgimaa is the part of South-Estonia where the historical folk textiles had their own unique style). The gloves were ordered by Kersti who uses the same influences in her own creation quite often. As Mulgi embroidery has been rather over exploited lately in Estonia then the new task was a big challenge for me. How to make it freshlooking was my main problem to struggle with. I certainly did not want to use the same methods and motifs that I had used/created before. A whole week I could not embroider anything and then suddenly the inspiration came from a book about Estonian ethnographical embroidery. I discovered a motif that I knew had not been used by anyone else before in nowadays (of course I can be wrong) and added some other stilistic elements from the same period of time and ready it became. I changed authentic colours as well and left the wrist part modestly unicoloured.