Luckenbooth

One recognizes the stitches “Luckenbooth” with his reason in heart, composed of a simple heart or two interlaced hearts, often surmounted (S) by a stylized crown. This reason for crowned heart is present in popular art in the majority of the countries of Europe as of the XIVe century, and this until the XIXe century. It appears on works out of wooden engraved or painted, metal, textile, etc

Luckenbooths were shops of Edinburgh, located in Royal Mile between the Cathedral Saint-Gilles and Canongate. They was the first permanent gravers of the cities which sheltered jewellers and other craftsmen, and this since the XVIe century. The name is derived from these small kiosks (“booth”) that one vérouillait (“lock”) with closing.

The Luckenbooth pin - generally out of money - became a traditional Broche Scottish marriage, data in pledge of love by the groom at his promised day of the weddings, the hearts symbolizing of course the love, and the crown honesty. The pin was fixed later on the life jacket of the first baby to protect it from the “malignant spirits”. The first mention of such a pin in Scotland goes back to 1503.

Starting from the XVIIIe century, it also became a decorative symbol which one very commonly finds on the traditional costume of the Amerindians, and in particular at Iroquois. They undoubtedly adopted it after having seen it carried by the Scot arrived in mass in North America Britannique after the end of the Guerre Seven Year old (1763). It is very probable, indeed, that quantity of Scottish carried this pin as a memory which émotionnellement bound them to their native land.

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