I do love the internet.  We get wrapped up in "academic quality comes from peer-reviewed books" and then a wonderful museum posts good photos of some of their most popular exhibits. (photo from the National Museum, Denmark.) Here's the fragments of the Hagendrup skirt that I wanted yesterday, with both cord remains and metal embellishment.  The metal is much longer than I expected, but the tubes are located in a different place, too. Re: what the metal is: I've found descriptions saying both copper and bronze.  I don't know what bronze was, in more detail than "copper + tin", but … Continue reading String Skirt 2 – The metal bits

I find it interesting that nearly all of my European interests center around one little bit of geography.  There's something about the southern North Sea shores that draws me.  My name is from 15thc Zeeland, I'm enchanted by the 5thc brooch-closed Kentish dresses (heavily influenced by the Franks, who occupied Zeeland), I like the tablet-woven edges particular to the Jutes who lived in that peninsula, and my current favorite summer event wear is this outfit, which our extant pieces document to Bronze Age Denmark.  (Same place.)  (I won't talk about my love for Danish modern furniture just now.) Concept: Zealand … Continue reading Bronze Age String Skirt