{"id":22773,"date":"2026-08-08T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:05:12","slug":"daily_4175_-_exhibition_at_erm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/08\/08\/daily_4175_-_exhibition_at_erm\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4175 – exhibition at ERM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The younger generation (= Adrian, plus my friends’ kids of roughly similar age) went to an escape room. I wouldn’t have minded joining them – it’s been years since I did that – but groups were limited to 5 persons, so us “adults” had to find alternative entertainment.<\/p>\n

My friend and I went to the Estonian National Museum, primarily to see an exhibition about the dyes historically used for traditional Estonian clothes. An excellent exhibition, with plenty of archive material, as well as modern artefacts to illustrate the dying process, such as indigo-dyed wool showing how later dye baths give a weaker colour, and multiple batches of yarn dyed with the same plant but with subtle variations in the process. There were videos showing just how intricate the dye preparation process could be (how did they even come up with all those steps?) and more videos with deep dives into specific garments in the museum’s archives, that showed just how connected rural Estonia was to the global dye trade even several centuries ago. We spent hours there.<\/p>\n


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There were a few other textile-oriented temporary exhibitions. One was an embroidered tapestry, which was embroidered by volunteers during 2025 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first Estonian-language book. The tapestry wandered throughout Estonia, different people embroidering different parts of it, and my friend even located the part that she had worked on.<\/p>\n

(The first Estonian-language book was a protestant tract and was thus burned by the church. The oldest surviving printed material in Estonian dates from 1535.)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of firsts, one room held the first and original blue-black-white flag. It was buried at the start of the Soviet occupation, then dug up and hidden (in a farmhouse chimney) until 1991, its location known only to a handful of people through all those years.<\/p>\n

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