The classic embroidery school – how difficult can it be?
At Sorø Museum you can experience a special exhibition with a wealth of embroideries during the summer. This year, Charlotte Braes and Rie Haagen from Lis Ahrenkiel's Classical Embroidery School in Haslev are exhibiting their works.
At Lis Ahrenkiel, the basic craftsmanship skills in embroidery are taught. Lis has built up a 7,5-year training course, and it is the school's most important task to preserve, describe and further develop embroidery, which is part of our common cultural heritage.
Basically, the classic embroidery techniques from Danish peasant sewing are used – for example, heathland sewing.
Charlotte Falk Burcharth Braes
"I want to continue the old craft. I want to get into the minds of the people who made the embroideries that are in the museums' collections – learn from them." Working with the old embroideries, analyzing and recreating details has given me invaluable insight. Everything that is not in the books – that is what drives me. How hard can it be?!”
Rie Haagen
"I have discovered that the focus and care that embroidery requires gives me peace and creates flow and energy. My interest has primarily been in the white embroideries, and it has been a pleasure to find similarities and differences throughout Europe to the heathland embroidery, which flourished in Denmark as early as the 1700th century."
The free embroidery with wool and silk, where I use needle and thread as a paintbrush, has taken up more and more of my time; it's fun and it stimulates my creative joy.”
The exhibition can be seen at Sorø Museum from June 21 to August 9 in the museum's opening hours.
Note: Danish only