Husfliden

Description:

• As we mentioned in the review of Hekle-Kroken above, winter nights in Tromsø are long, dark, and very cold, and many locals labor, from within their well-heated and weather-tight homes, at arts and crafts. If you're a knitter, a quilter, an embroiderer, or a leatherworker, this shop stocks your raw materials. There's also a small inventory of handmade sweaters knitted by people loosely affiliated with the store. The staff here tends to be elderly, kindhearted, grandmotherly aficionados of the arts-and-crafts scene.

• © Frommer's 2013