Behind door number 3 we find a Viking age posament from Birka, Sweden.
The metal wire is made out of silver and the core is a textile fibre. We don’t know if the textile fiber is made out of silk or linen.
Today the posament can be found in the collections of The Swedish History museum.
/ Amica and Maria
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Today we present an amazing find. The Grödinge double weave.
The weave is woven in dark blue and white wool thread.
Here a detail of the boarder. Wyverns.
The weave is dated to late 15th century.
Now in the collections of the Swedish History museum.
/ Amica and Maria
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The last few years we have put together an Advent calendar during december. Out plan is to do the same this year. But since the new plague hit our world we have not been traveling at all. And we might lack a bunch of “new” historical textiles to show you. We are doing the best we can to show you hidden gems in our photo collections. It’s possible that we bring up new angles of a piece that we have shown you before. Hope you can find joy in a recycled textile too.
Our first post is an embroidery:
The peacock on the Masku coverlet, Finland. Intarsia technique.
Wool fabric in green ( now with a blue tint since the yellow dyestuff have faded), dark blue, white and red. Also thin cotton or linen fabrics as decoration on the top of the antennas. The silvred/gilded leather have fallen off in the majority of places. The stitching shows where they were placed.
The coverlet is in the collections of the National Museum of Finland.
Dated to 15th century.
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Today, 24th of December, we celebrate Christmas ( Jul) in Sweden.
That means this is the last calendar post. We hope that you have enjoyed this years calendar and that you have seen things that you haven’t seen before.
Todays post is a Swedish embroidery. Wool on linen. Dated mid 15th century.
We have analysed the embroidery and a full report will come soon.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
/ Amica and Maria
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Knitting! A cap. From Italy. Dated 1470-1540.
Wool. Brown.
That’s all for now 😉
It’s too late and I have been driving 450km. So I’m to tired to update something useful.
Here goes a random collection of things.
Spindel tops in metal. And whorls. Athen, Greece. Dated medieval. 10-15th century
Lucet in bone/ horn. National museum Copenhagen, Denmark. Dated “medieval 13-16th”
Net shuttle from Lödöse. Dated 13-15th century
Shears for cutting the nap after fulling fabric. Dated 1850-ish. 9year (132cm ) old for reference . Sundsvall Museum,
Today we travel to the north of Sweden. All the way up to Resele church in Ångermanland. The medieval church was demolished 1841 when the new church was built. Today’s textile is an antependium from the old church.
It’s a wool weave and it has got one warp system and two weft systems.
The birds are a common motif during the later part of the Middle ages and the antependium is dated 1350-1500, it is dated by style.
The textile is part of the collection at Historiska Museet in Sweden.
/ Amica and Maria
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The Fogdö embroidery is made with long armed cross stitches. It’s dated to early 16th century.
St George is often depicted in late medieval art. Here we can see George with a lovely jousting shield fighting the dragon with a very long sword… The embroidery is very well preserved, but on some places you can see that the wool yarn have worn off and the tabby linen weave is exposed.
Today it is found in the collections of Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
/ Amica and Maria
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We stay in Nyköping and here is another medieval fabric. Wool of course! It’s reddish brown. Possibly dyed with madder.
It’s a tabby . 14/12th/ cm z/s.
Today in the collections of Sörmlands Museum.
Some metals are better then other in combination with textiles.
Iron tend to rust and this piece have today some rust “blobs” and rusty rings on the fabric. Originally it was rings sewn on to a velvet fabric. Most likely lacing rings on a doublet. The rings were sewn on with double white linen thread.
The piece comes from Italy and is dated 1470-1540. Read more about the finds from this collection here on our blog. Use the search word Italy and you will find more finds from the same collection.
/ Amica and Maria
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