Category: fibre art

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Fairy Tales Involving Fiber Arts:

• The Wild Swans
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Sleeping Beauty
• Clever Anait
• (sort of) The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Vasilisa the Beautiful

• The Tsarevna Frog (Russian)
• Baba Yaga (Russian)
• Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle (German)
• Frau Holle (German)
• The Elves and the Shoemaker (German)
  
• And Seven! (Italian) and The Three Spinners (German)
  
• The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (Chinese)
• Also (sort of), all stories where a daughter asks for three marvellous gowns to stall for time, like All-Kinds-of-Fur (German), Donkeyskin (French), Catskin (English), The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter (Scottish), Mossycoat (English) and The Princess That Wore a Rabbit-skin Dress (North American).