When you think about handmade work, you probably have in mind the picture of a grandma in her rocking chair making a scarf or a hat for her grandchildren. Well, sometimes it was like that, but nowadays the younger generations are trying to learn this art.

Perhaps you went past some space where the picture was hanged - wait, well, it was not a picture, but something that was very similar to the picture on the far, but when you looked a little closer, you noticed that this picture was made up of many threads of different colors, and if you looked from really close, it looked kind of grainy. And that, dear readers, was your first encounter with the Gobelin tapestry.

I first saw Gobelin when I was a young girl. My (now passed away) grandma had a lot of time on her hands, and just loved to make them. I tried to remember how many did she made, but I can't say. I just know, that her love of the threads was contagious. There is something about all those colors and calmness when doing something like this...

At this point, I would give a brief definition of what Gobelin is at all: basically, it is a type of canvas full of holes, on which a motif is printed, which we then 'fill' with sewing using different colored threads. The specialty of the Gobelin is also that we don't make the knots, they are connected similar, like if they screw the button onto the base.

Simply pull the thread through the holes and 'sew' it when we go along the resulting line back to the first injection area. We are seized in a wrong-facing letter 'N', in such a way that it 'crosses' the letters on the outside and the two horizontals are on the back of the Gobelin, where the cross is usually inclined to the right.

Sounds simple, right? However, motifs that are templates for embroidering Gobelins can also be very complex, with many colors, thickness lines, and windings. And even the motive is printed on the canvas, for more complex prints it leaves you some freedom which holes to fill with which colors and how.

This art is still valued a lot, and the prices for the printed canvas along with the treads is quite high. Not to mention the price of the cost of framing afterwards. All those photos, I showed you today were made by my grandma, except the first one, which was made by me when I was a girl... If I could only show you everything she did for herself, her family, and as a gift for others. Just amazing...

I hope that I have attracted your interest in this type of handmade products so that you will also try it yourself, and perhaps accept the production of Gobelins for your own, whether it be a hobby, accessory, a way to decorate the walls of your home or simply a type of evening meditation. I wish you a pleasant rest of the day, and a happy Mothers day to all the mothers around the world!

Photos made by me and my Samsung A5.