Finely Knitted Estonian Gloves in Paistu selling Style with Natural Off-White Red and Navy Strawberry Bloom Pattern

Knitted with three colored yarn in traditional Estonian fair-isle style. The pattern comes from Paistu area in historic Mulgi Region, nowadays Viljandi County. It is an ancient geometrical pattern, depicting tiny crosses and a bloom. It is called a Strawberry Bloom Pattern.

Tightly knitted using 0-size needles and DK weight yarn. The off-white yarn is natural sheep color, 100% wool from Estonia. The red and blue are hand dyed, natural Estonian wool. They are perfect to block wind and wear in winter. Beautiful triangular ribbing is very elegant, like a bracelet around your wrist.

The gloves are color-worked all the way to the fingertips, which makes them warmer than average thin one-layer gloves. The yarn being rather thin makes them very comfortable to wear and they fit like a second skin.

Women's size. selling