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a piece of black fabric sitting on top of a ruler

For my first guest writer for the terminology series, I’m very excited to introduce Cathy Raymond, of Loose Threads: Yet Another Costuming Blog. Cathy’s Medieval and earlier focused blog is one of my favourite textile reads because her area of research is well outside my usual scope, meaning that I learn something new with every post. At the same time, her writing is so thoughtful and considered that it makes me continually realise how timeless and universal textiles are, and how relevant…

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an article from the viking age york showing how to use a loom for weaving

Viking Textiles - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The York housewife in the Viking Age was highly skilled in cloth making and could spin yarn, weave cloth, and sew garments using simple tools. She would spin raw wool or flax into yarn using a distaff and spindle, then weave cloth on a basic warp-weighted loom that could be folded and stored. Finished cloth could be dyed or bleached using natural dyes before being made into clothing.

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two people are working on some kind of thing that is being held by someone's hands

This is a norrøn vararfeldur, the closest you can come to a rya in the Viking period. In Norwegian it’s called a gråfell (grey fleece). It was woven in Iceland in November, 2010 by Hildur Hakonard…

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two pages of color swatches showing different shades of fabric, with one being folded over the other

This post is a collab with Korps and contains advertisement for plantdyes and fabrics I wanted to put down what I have learned about coloured garments and fabrics from the Viking age, so you may us…

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the word love is written in celtic style on a black background

Jonas Lau Markussen on Instagram: "Two Intertwining Animals in Style II C . Whole S-shaped animals biting their own neck and 'gripping' each other's ribbon-bodies with their hind-legs. . The mix of open leaf-like front-feet and frond-toed hind-legs is typical for the style and a continuation of features of the preceding style II B. It is often necessary to take a closer look to distinguish the hips from heads as they are executed in a very similar matter. . This type of motif is found…

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