Hyrdinden og skorstensfejeren - wall piece - Agnete Velter

Hyrdinden og skorstensfejeren - wall piece - Agnete Velter

Fairy tales have something special when they are transformed into embroidery. They gain a textile calm, while still keeping all the drama, delicacy and imagination. The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep - wall piece - Agnete Velter (AV) is an embroidery kit with a small fairy-tale motif, where the shepherdess and the chimney sweep meet in a scene full of movement, colour and stars. The motif has storytelling, humour and romance, and the finished wall piece becomes a charming small embroidery design with a clear personality.

A fairy-tale scene with shepherdess and chimney sweep

The motif shows the shepherdess in a large pink dress that fills the lower part of the embroidery. The dress is embroidered in pink, rose and darker reddish tones, giving it both volume and movement. The large folds and decorative form make the shepherdess the colourful centre of the motif.

She wears a small green hat and holds her shepherd’s crook in her hand. Beside her are pale details that give the scene a light and almost theatrical expression. The chimney sweep appears from the upper left, dressed in dark colours. He reaches his hand down towards the shepherdess, and this movement gives the motif its story. You get the sense of a moment in the middle of a fairy tale, where the figures are on their way onwards together.

The background is blue and filled with golden stars. It creates a nocturnal and dreamlike atmosphere around the two figures. The warm yellow stars stand beautifully against the blue background and make the motif both lively and decorative.

A small wall piece with a big story

The finished embroidery measures 20 x 20 cm. The square format suits the scene-like structure of the motif well, where the figures, stars and blue background are gathered in a small picture surface. Although the size is manageable, the motif contains many interesting details.

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep - wall piece - Agnete Velter (AV) is beautifully suited for framing. It can hang in a child’s room, in a reading corner, in an entrance hall or as part of a gallery wall with fairy-tale motifs. The colours make the embroidery eye-catching, while the light linen background around the motif brings calm.

This embroidery kit is embroidered with Danish Flower Thread on Haandarbejdets Fremme linen 10B. Danish Flower Thread gives the colours a soft and natural expression, so the strong pink dress, the golden stars and the dark contrasts all gain a fine textile character.

Haandarbejdets Fremme and Agnete Velter’s fairy-tale motif

Haandarbejdets Fremme is known for embroidery kits where materials, design and storytelling are closely connected. In this kit, linen 10B, Danish Flower Thread and a motif come together to show how embroidery can convey figures, atmosphere and action in a small format.

Agnete Velter has created a motif where the fairy-tale element is allowed to be both decorative and alive. The shepherdess’s large dress, the dark figure of the chimney sweep, the blue background and the golden stars together create an embroidery design with clear drama and warmth. It is an embroidery kit for those who love fairy tales, small wall pieces and embroidery with a fine story in the motif.