Throughout Europe, most Lenten cloths have been lost over the centuries, but in Carinthia they have not only been preserved, but are still hung in front of the altars during Lent. Artists, children and artistic women also create new hunger towels every now and then. 13 Carinthian altars are covered with embroidered Lenten cloths.
“Before Lent cloths were painted with motifs, there were embroidered cloths,” says Roland Stadler, head of the tourist pastoral care department in the Gurk diocese, who often works intensively with hunger cloths together with colleagues. From the 1980s onwards, cross-stitching emerged in Carinthia for the cloths that cover altars during Lent.
Source: Krone
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