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3. rnynd. Ljósmyndir: Elsa E. Guðjónsson.
2. mytid.
HEIMILDIR
Guðjónsson, Elsa E., „Knipliskxín írá 1834.
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Guðjónsson, Elsa E., „Hekl á Islandi",
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Reykjavík, 1997. Bls. 75-85.
Ölason, Páll Eggert, Islenzkar œviskrár, l-IV
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SUMMARY
Appendix to the article about Crochct in Iceland
By Elsa E. Guðjónsson in Arbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 1995
In May 1997 the author had the opportunity to visit the somewhat remote farmer-
owned church at Bjarnarhöfn in western Iceland and examine the textiles belonging to
the church. Among them are an altar frontal and an altar cloth, which according to an
embroidered inscription on the back of the frontal were gifts to the church in 1862 from
Ingileif Melsted (1818-1894) in memory of her late husband, Páll Melsted (1791-1861),
who was buried at the church. Both the frontal and the cloth are of red woollen damask,
the frontal among other decorated with wide bands of yellow crochet, while the entire
surface of the cloth is covered with white openwork crochet. The frontal and the cloth
are the earliest exactly dated pieces of Icelandic crochet known to the author.