Klostern and Kloster

[Nan]

Hi, all,

Been wondering about this for months: Is there any connection between
Kloster (of the Hardanger blocks) and Klostern the fabric?

TIA,
Nan

[Nancy]

Can we make kloster blocks on the Klostern fabric while skiing in Klosters,
Switzerland? LOL

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Nancy in Fairfax, VA

hgrei...@fastransit.net.uk wrote in message
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>On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:48:37 -0700, "Nan" <wol...@pacbell.net>
>wrote:

>Only if you make kloster blocks on the Klostern fabric :-).
>Anne/NC
>
>
>To E-mail back remove the .uk at the end

[Joan Koster]

STOP!STOP! You confuse me each time I see the subject line.....

What? You talkin to me?????

Joan Koster

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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:27:19 -0400, "Nancy" <red-...@erols.com>
wrote:

>Can we make kloster blocks on the Klostern fabric while skiing in Klosters,
>Switzerland? LOL

It depends. Were you planning to use the ski poles as needles?
(Watch out for that treeeeeeeeee........)

[Martha Beth Lewis]

In <6s2068$1pn$1...@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> "Nan" <wol...@pacbell.net>
writes:

>
>Hi, all,
>
>Been wondering about this for months: Is there any connection between
>Kloster (of the Hardanger blocks) and Klostern the fabric?

Funny you should ask. I recently did some international research, via
dear friends here, and I decided that kloster (in Hardanger) is from
the German (and Latin) word for cloister. The word is the same in
Swedish, Norwegian (naturally), and Danish. (The Finns are different;
their language is related to Roumanian--at least I think it is
Roumanian--thus Latin-link--but definitely not the same "root" as the
other Scandinavian languages.)

Anyhoo, after getting that info, I decided that the kloster block looks
like a cloister, if you look down on it.

In a typical cloister--Klosterneuburg outside Vienna is one--the center
is open (grassy; perhaps at one time a garden). The building is shaped
like a square around it. There is a walkway--covered by the next floor
of the bldg.--that borders the open area; one wall is the side of the
building (wherein are housed, I believe, as my memory fails me, the
cells in which the nuns/monks live). The other wall is colonnaded and
usually has arches or some such other architectural feature to hold the
whole business up, and looks out on the center.

That is probably more than you wanted to know! mb

[Martha Beth Lewis]

As far as I can see, Klostern is 7-ct aida which is 60% rayon and 40%
cotton. Don't see any resemblance to a cloister. mb

[Anna M Suova]

Actually Finnish is related to Hungarian not Roumanian. As I'm not a
linguist myself I can't tell you exactly where the Finnish word for
cloister comes from but the word is "luostari" so there's some
resemblense there (the Swedish word is "kloster").

Anna from Helsinki

Martha Beth Lewis <mar...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

: Funny you should ask. I recently did some international research, via

[Martha Beth Lewis]

In <6sefnm$fob$1...@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Anna M Suova

<su...@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
>
>Actually Finnish is related to Hungarian not Roumanian. As I'm not a
>linguist myself I can't tell you exactly where the Finnish word for
>cloister comes from but the word is "luostari" so there's some
>resemblense there (the Swedish word is "kloster").
>
>Anna from Helsinki

Thank you! I knew Roumanian wasn't right. I appreciate your
correcting me.

The luostari is the one, as I recall, from Latin. Seems like
it was Old Latin and Old Norse....anyway, a checkered past!

Thanks for your post. I'll try to remember Hungarian! mb