OUTFIT PICS
This persona is based on the graves at Borum Eshoj, which date to the 14th century BCE. (Incidentally, this makes my Borum Eshoj woman farther apart in time from my husband’s Viking persona than that Viking is from us now!)
Basic pieces
Top & Skirt
Garment construction, with bibliographic citations
Fuller skirt version.
Belt
String skirt
String Skirt 1, background research
String Skirt 2, the metal bits
String Skirt 3, the size of the thing
String Skirt 4, weaving and those darn loops
String Skirt 5, actually weaving it
DID I NEVER BLOG THIS??sigh, String Skirt 8, chaining the loops and FINISHED
Brooches for top
Hairnet
A six-part series on constructing this hairnet starts here.
Necklace
“Tummy sun”
Shoes
Other gear
Birch bark bucket
Since I wear BE just because of the hot weather, I don’t worry about much Bronze Age gear, though I did make some oil lamps.
Accessories for cold weather
Coat
Hat
Bibliography
WOMEN’S CLOTHING -BRONZE AGE
Hald, Margarethe. Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials. (I know several people with a copy, and have also gotten one from Inter-Library Loan.)
Danish Bronze Age (includes Borum Eshoj Woman)
Viking Answer Lady, Egtved page, accessed July 23, 2009
Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years. Norton, 1994. The mainstream version of her academic work below. Pages 54-70 deal with string skirts and their symbology in various cultures from Stone Age to modernity.
Barber, E. J. W. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. [What’s in this book? On its way.]
Bender Jorgensen, Lise. “Industries of the Near East and Europe in Prehistory: Europe.” The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Broholm, H.C. and Margarethe Hald; tr. by Elisabeth Aagesen.. Costumes of the Bronze Age in Denmark.London: Oxford University Press, 1940.(Gwen)(Cailleach/Danish)
Broholm, H.C. and Margarethe Hald; tr. by Joergen Andersen. Bronze Age Fashion. n.l.: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1948. (Gwen)
Chadwick Hawkes, Sonia. “The Jutish Style A. A Study of Germanic Animal Art in Southern England in the Fifth Century AD.” appearing in:
Harvey, John H., Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, David M. Wilson, Gerald Clough Dunning, and R. P. Howgrave-Graham. Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 98. Oxford: Printed at Oxford by Vivian Ridler for the Society of Antiquaries, 1961.
JEWELRY
Don’t I have a tutuli link somewhere?
OTHER EARLY STUFF
CLOTHING EMBELLISHMENT
(embroidery with metal and fiber threads) (braiding types)
FIBER ARTS
GRAPHIC DESIGN (for decorating trunks, tent poles, and felted bedcover, perhaps rugs)
Fell, Christine. and David Wilson. The Northern World: the history and heritage of Northern Europe, AD400-1100. 1980. (brooch on blog header, with caption, is from this text)
Ellis, Peter Berresford. Celtic Women. 1996. (own)(currently reading)
