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New "Loose Threads" Entry--More Archaeological News

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 08:09pm on 20/10/2011 under
This one is a find of a nearly complete 3rd century tunic on an icy mountain in Norway. Go here to read it.
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posted by [identity profile] ericavdg.livejournal.com at 05:24am on 21/10/2011
Thanks for these pointers! I loved seeing the photos of the finds and of the other museum objects. Very interesting that a plain tunic had decorative weave; even in prehistory we want our clothes to look nice.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 05:26am on 21/10/2011
Yes, and decorative weaves were more important then. I think that's because it was the technique most economically in reach--you don't see a lot of colored patterns on cloth in early finds, for example, nor much embroidery in northern European clothing until the Anglo-Saxon period. (The Vikings were contemporary with the Anglo-Saxons but seem, based on the finds, to have done very little embroidery and not been very good at it.)
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