I missed what we traditionally call "Fasnet" (Fastnacht), which is a lot of celebrating and eating and generally having fun. We start celebrating on the 6th of January by digging out the costumes and masks ... then there is a break of a few weeks until the Thursday before Ash Wednesday when the true festivities begin. There will be prcessions, there will be a lot of food - as traditionally all the food that could go bad (meat, eggs, lard .. ) had to be used up before the time of fasting. The official end of "Fasnet" is at midnight, with the traditional burning of a straw man (depending on who you believe, the straw man depicts the winter or all the sins)
You wonder what all that has to do we fabric - the costumes of course, there are so many and many of them, wonderfully sewn, so I though I would show some of them.
I searched the WWW for some nice pictures of the myriades of different costumes - as the villages and towns wach have their own costumes.
If you need to use up large amounts of solids:
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| "forest devil" c NetCurLi |
Or would you rather use up your scraps? maybe in combination with some appliquee?
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| c B. Sasse |
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| c Mühlheim Tourisitk |
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| Schantle c www.neuangekommen.de |
something easy for the beginner, and something for our embroiderers
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| details c H. Hölsch |
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| "port jester" c Peter Sikora |
Just to show that there is some hard work included - those bell belts usually weigh between 10 and 13 kg and in order to make them ring nicely you have to hopp slightly.
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| c H. Hölsch |
Aww, tolle Bilder. I miss it too. But it has been so long for me now that I have seen a proper Fasching that I can barely remember them.
ReplyDeleteSuch creative costumes!
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