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Advent calendar 6 December 2017

Our sixth calendar post is a soumac weave from Skog, Sweden.

Here we can see a close up on one of the animals on the weave. The weave have a warp of linen and weft of the same, plus madder and woad dyed wool yarn.

It’s dated to 13th century.

Now in collections of Historiska museet, Sweden

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