100 % Mulberry silk

800 meters per 100 g skein

This base is pure luxury. 100% grade A mulberry silk. This yarn is perfect for shawls or for garments that use the way silk drapes to a great effect. Just one skein gives you enough yarn for a medium sized shawl.

The classic recipe: Feuding families + two young lovers + (in true Norse saga style) a lot of violence = a tragic outcome. This story is regarded as the background for the tales of tragic lovers in Norse culture.

The tale of Hagbard and Signe, the King’s daughter, begins with Hagbard and his brothers killing Signe’s brothers in a blood feud. Because of this, Hagbard can not come openly to visit Signe at her father’s court, so he dress up as a shield-maiden to go there. But her maid gets suspicious about his looks and betrays them to the King. Before men come to take him, Hagbard asks Signe what she will do if her father kills him. Signe answers that she will not live without him. The maid had stolen Hagbard`s weapons and armour while he was in bed with Signe before she betrayed the young lovers to the King. The King sends his household men to seize Hagbard, but even without weapons he kills a whole lot of them. In the end Hagbard is tricked and taken, and the king sentences him to death by hanging. The Queen, in mock ceremony, offers him the parting glass as he is walking up the hill to the gallows. When he gets to the top of the hill where the gallows stand he sees that Signe’s bower is going up in flames. Then he allows himself to be hung, claiming it was all worth it.

«Oh, how should I ride with hawk on hand

To thy father's court so free ?

Full well I know thy wrathful sire

Would hang me to a tree !»

The ballad of Hagbard and Signelil