A Christmas story from Glasshytta at Hadeland

The story behind Norgesglasset cookie tins

Norgesglasset cookie tins hold more than what you put inside them. Behind the nostalgic illustrations is a story rooted in Glasshytta at Hadeland Glassverk – and in the idea of a bustling Christmas workshop filled with helpers big and small.

Inspired by Glasshytta

Designer and illustrator Lisbeth Lutnæs is the artist behind the world depicted on the biscuit tins. From the original illustration to the story that followed, she has allowed the same characters to live on through small scenes filled with detail. When Lisbeth was asked to illustrate the Norgesglasset biscuit tins, the starting point was Glasshytta at Hadeland Glassverk. Glassmakers have worked by the hot furnaces here for generations, and this is also where Norgesglasset jars were once produced. In the illustrations, Glasshytta has become a little Christmas world of its own. The activity around the furnaces and the people working together to create something have been transformed into a Christmas workshop filled with elves, children and little helpers – all brought to life through Lisbeth's imagination and illustrations.
Lisbeth Lutnæs

She also found inspiration in her own childhood and in her love of small details that spark the imagination.

“A lot of the inspiration comes from my own childhood. I love all the little details, but what I think I like most is the story around them – being able to look at the illustration and let your imagination take the story further.”

– Lisbeth Lutnæs, designer and illustrator

The same story continues

The story on the cookie tins did not end with the original illustration. In the next chapter, we meet the same characters again – a little further along in their Christmas preparations.

In the original illustration, the elf stands on a box beneath the mistletoe and receives a kiss from the girl, while two little mice take a rest beside them.

In the next illustration, the story has moved on: now it is the girl standing on the box, hanging up the mistletoe while passing the hammer to the elf. The mice are back on their feet too, dancing around a little Christmas tree.

“The characters' world is the same – the story has simply continued.”

– Lisbeth Lutnæs

It is these little details that make the illustrations so enjoyable to explore. You can recognise the characters while imagining for yourself what might be happening next in the Christmas workshop.

Made for Christmas baking

As Christmas approaches, the biscuit tins are first and foremost made to be filled. Norgesglasset biscuit tins come in different shapes and sizes, with room for gingerbread biscuits, traditional Norwegian Christmas biscuits and other festive favourites.

The round biscuit tin with a removable divider makes it easy to keep several varieties in the same tin – perhaps even the traditional Norwegian seven kinds of Christmas biscuits. The square versions offer plenty of room for Christmas baking, while the sets of two tins give you different sizes to fill.

And when the last biscuit has been eaten, the tins can be put away until next Christmas – ready to be filled all over again.

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When the cookie tins come out

For Lisbeth, the biscuit tins are also about the feeling of bringing out something familiar as Christmas approaches:

“I hope people feel something familiar when they bring out the biscuit tins, something they recognise. And I hope these tins are something they can bring out year after year and think: Oh, now it's Christmas. Now I can feel the Christmas spirit.”

– Lisbeth Lutnæs

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