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Foxglove - Striga
Foxglove - Striga
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The colourway Foxglove has a cream-pink base, with pink, mauve and green speckles and streaks.
Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.
Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is the best-known species of the flowering plant, which is entirely toxic (including the roots and seeds). It is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its vivid flowers, which range in colour from various purple tints through pink and purely white.
Depending on the species, the digitalis plant may contain several deadly toxins. Thus, the foxglove plants have earned several, more sinister, names: dead man's bells and witch's gloves. The toxins can be absorbed via the skin or ingestion.
The name is recorded in Old English as 'foxes glofe/glofa' or 'fox's glove'. Over time, folk myths obscured the literal origins of the name, insinuating that foxes wore the flowers on their paws to silence their movements as they stealthily hunted their prey. It is conceivable that the connection to foxes emerged from their denning behaviour; the woody hillsides where the foxes made their burrows were often covered with the toxic flowers.
Striga Fingering
Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length Fingering: 400 m / 437 yds
Yarn Weights Available: Fingering & DK
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base
Striga DK
Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length DK: 225 m / 246 yds
Yarn Weights Available: Fingering & DK
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base
A beautiful, soft and robust yarn with a gentle texture, Striga creates a light weight fabric, with a particularly crisp and even stitch definition that will charm (not only) the texture knitters. Ideal for cozy sweaters, shawls and accessories. Well-suited for knitting socks and gloves despite the lack of nylon, the yarn doesn’t wear out easily.
Striga is named after a slavic folklore figure, very similar to a witch or crone. She is a semi-demonic being, which in folk beliefs was characterized by supernatural properties and the ability to harm its surroundings. She typically appeared as an old woman or a young girl, and had the ability to transform into animals (cats, toads, owls).
Strigas could summon storms, destroy crops, harm people and animals, summon spirits, tell fortunes and influence the future, take or spoil milk from cows and cause enthrallment. After using magical ointments, they gained the ability to fly through the air, especially on the dark nights of the winter and summer solstices and at the beginning of spring, when the witches' sabbath was held.
The origin of strigas trace back to the mythological Strix of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, and was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood. It also referred to witches and related malevolent folkloric beings.
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