2025: Ready to ship, a small collection of hens, 3-5 per colour.
Nordiska of Gothenburg, 1964
Designer: Ingrid Bjernefors Dahlman
Name: Äggvärmare 8410D
Egg Warmer 8410D was designed by Ingrid Bjernefors-Dahlman.
Ingrid loved to paint and draw hens.
Between 1960 and 1969, at least four different versions of Ingrid’s hens were available as egg warmer embroidery kits. In Scandinavian homes. These embroidered hens would be brought out at Easter celebration, or on display all year. The playful figures that Ingrid designed charms one generation after the other, and we are so very glad to be able to release this little hen into the wild again after so many years.
The set of linen threads comes as 7 colours, 10 skeins in total with a chenille needle size 22.
We have found a very rare, complete sheet of the original stitch chart, and a full size copy of the chart will be included with your kit.
The colours for both the fabric and the threads will be different from the original 60's hen, and you will need to decide where to add your colours using the original chart as a guide for light and dark shades.
The padding is not included, and you will need to find cardboard for the egg warmers underside separately.
Included is also a stitch card, showing the 24 common linen embroidery stitches used by Nordiska in their embroidery designs.
We don't recommend washing the linen, and the lines are printed with permanent colour to embroider over.