The wool embroidery

Under the choir in Uvdal stave church a fragment of an embroidery was found, probably parts of a textile used during church rituals. The base is made from linen where pairs of threads come together in warp and weft. The seem is made with strong double wool thread in a rusty red color, black and yellow. The technique of the embroidery is double couching and laid work. In one of the corners there is a small section of pattern darning.

As some of the oldest embroidery techniques known from the Middle Ages, couching and laid work and pattern darning were standard techniques both in Norway and Europe in general.