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Advent calendar December 23th 2018

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Our twenty-third advent calendar post is a relics purse from Troyes, France. This relics purse is connected to the Comtes de Champagne. The whole surface of the purse is filled with counted embroidery made in filament silk. We don’t know what is underneath the stitches, but we guess at a very evenly woven linen.

We were really surprised bu the size of the purse, it’s quite large. Approx. 20- 25 cm in the bottom of the purse.
It’s in great condition and the small lovely turks head knots around the bottom and the lid are super cute and impressivly even.

This piece is dated to 13th century.

Now in collections of the Troyes Cathedral
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Photo: Historical Textiles 

Advent calendar December 17th 2018

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Our seventeenth advent calendar post is an alb with embroideries.  The alb comes from Brännkyrka kyrka, Södermanland, Sweden. It is made of of the thinnest linen and is in great condition considering it’s age. 

The embroideries are made with silk thread and metal spangles. 

They alb is dated to 17th century.  

Now in collections of Historiska museet, Sweden.
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Photo: Historical Textiles

Advent calendar December 12th 2018

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Our twelfth advent calendar post is once again items from the Oseberg burial, Norway. But this time it is fragments from a tablet woven bands.
The textile is made out of wool. 

The ship, from where the textile was found, was built 820 AD and the grave was covered  834 AD. The ship was covered with clayey soil. This has protected the grave as clay-rich soil is very low in oxygen.

Now in the collections of Kulturhistorisk museum, Oslo, Norway.
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Photo: Historical Textiles

Advent calendar December 7th 2018

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Our seventh advent calendar post is, technically speaking, not a textile any more. But it used to be. In 1361 the bodies of the fallen from The Battle of Wisby was buried outside of the city of Visby on Gotland, Sweden. The med were buried in their armors and clothes as they wore that day, 27th of July 1361. The textiles have after 569 years in the ground  gone missing. But at some places where the textile have been in close contact with the metal from the armors, the textile have become metallized after so long time in contact with the metal.

This piece of amour might give us an indication on where on the body the textile were used. If the textile imprint in placed on the inside of a lamella from a coat of plates, one can assume that the textile have been part of some sort of clothing on that person. Sometimes it’s even possible to tell the weaving technique and even the fiber content. 

The lamella with textile is dated to 27th of July 1361. 

Now in collections of Historiska museet, Sweden.
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Photo: Historical Textiles

V&A – London

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Today we went to V&A. It was a short visit but we took some pictures that we want to share with you.

The Tristan quilt- dated 1360-1400

The Syon cope- front cope. And last picture. England. 1300-1320

Cope represented of the martyrdom of Saint- Germany. Silk on linen. 1310-1320

The Tristan wall hanging. Wool, leather and silk on wool. Germany. Late 14th century.

Tomorrow we are planning a trip to Hampton court. Stay tuned for more pictures

Amica and Maria

More Middelaldercenter 

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Some pictures from Denmark. We are happy to spend times with https://www.facebook.com/iloinenjoutsen/

Riku is carving a new spoon.

Elina is spinning.

Amica in out house, the weavers house.

Maria, is putting on the veil.

Amica is sewing on her new kirtle. Plant dyed with madder.

Prepping the lantern. Elina and Riku.

Amica and Mervi. Mervis is making a pair of needlebounded socks for a client.

Riku and Mervi in their house, the dyer’s.