is the greenlandic and arctic word for muskox wool, the finest and warmest wool in the world. The muskox are used to – 40 celcius and sometimes even more cold weather…chillfactor -50-70 celcius which is really cold. Once I tried – 42 celcius + wind, that was really really cold, and actually not that good to go outside….
Thats why muskox yarn/knit is so perfect to keep the body warm. The most specialized hospital in Denmark, called Rigshospitalet have knitted muskox cloth for the premature babies, because its the warmest wool in the world…and at the hospital homepage they have knitpatterns for those who want to knit cloth, thats sweet.
When my youngest girl were a baby 10 years ago, I swept her in a muskox shawl before she went in to the babywagon to sleep outside in the february cold weather…that always kept her warm…
The last 5 years it has been possible to buy coloured muskox yarn in many lovely bright colours…I like them…but I really like the natural coloured yarn…besides the wool bones/horn from the muskox can be made in to many different nice things, as bottoms, spoons, small bowls, earrings and jewelleries…it has a nice bright warm colour…
I think that many people would assume we always have had muskoxes in Greenland, but its a quite new animal in our context. We had it flewn in in the 60´s, and in some years the little group of 17 animals grew in to many many animals. So now we eat them as well.
I have a little anecdote about one of the first muskoxes in Greenland, I think his name was Willy, and it was used to humans and instead of living in the huge wild nature with the other 17 muskoxes it loved to stay close to a big airport, Kangerlussuaq in Greenland, and wanted to talk with whoever he could talk with (except for children, he hated children)…but what he really liked was to walk, run, hang out at the runway, so the Atlantic flights was forced to stay airborne because Willy was walking around down there and chilling out…After a while it went to expensive to have the huge flights in the air extra time, so Willy was transported deep in to the countryside……
….and came back, and was then flewn up even more north…..
and came back…he really loved Kangerlussuaq…so much he has his own tombstone today…when I was a little I have been waiting in the sky in my flight that someone at the ground tried to convince Willy with food and a luggagewagon to move him away from the runway…
found on Pictame #muskox
muskox skin found on dooit-justdooit.blogspot.com
found on qiviutonline.com
found on qiviutonline.com
musk ox yarn found on qiviutonline.com
muskox bone shawls needle found on dooit-justdooit.blogspot.com
muskox horn bottoms found on qiviutonline.com
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