On Friday I got a bit surprised at work, just before lunch I got the magazine "Knitting Tradition" in my hand. I knew my colleague had been looking for this photo in our collections this summer, but I never knew it was to show up in a knitting magazine.
On page 58-59 there was an article written by Nancy Bush - and the photo on page 59 showing a yellow glove is actually a photo from my archive! The actually glove can be seen in Uppsala.

The story of this glove is that Captain Sten Svantesson Sture wore the glove when he died in a battle 1565, against the Danish. The words Frevchen Sofia are worked in knitting across the palm. Textile historians had thought that Sture was engaged to a German girl, that the glove likely was hers, worn as her favor in the battle, an that the word Frevchenmeant "miss" in Middle Low German. Recent reseach by a Danish textile historian, Lise Warburg has shown the frevchen was a sixteenth-century Swedish word for "princess".
Princess Sofia - born 1547, was the daughter of King Gusav Vasa (ruled 1523-1560), and it's now believed that she was engaged to Sten Svantesson Sture. She most likely knitted the glove herself and made it for Sture to carry with him into battle. (Nancy Bush - Knitting Tradition, Winter 2010).
In anyway, regardless if the knitter is a German girl or a Swedish princess, the work is excellent done and it's a joy to see the great photo of it.
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