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- Woven Pouch
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Viking Age: Jewelry
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- 'Apron' Dress / VAD
- Hood
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- Leg Coverings NEW
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- Fiber: Flax
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- Fiber: Lime Bast
- Fiber: Icelandic Wool
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Tablet Weaving
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I will be posting my research, links and progress here on any additional projects that do not fall under the main headings,
I haven't included the tent and furnishing in the left-hand menu since those are projects for down the road a bit.
English is a Scandinavian language
By: Trine Nickelsen
December 7, 2012 - 06:03 Article from University of Oslo
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Contrary to popular belief, the British did not just borrow words and concepts from the Vikings and their descendants. What we call English is actually a form of Scandinavian."
Gudrun's Viking Links
Eastern archery in Birka's Garrison (12-page, PDF)
by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
"Semiotics of the Cloth": Reading Medieval Norse Textile Traditions (90-page, PDF)
by Kristen Marie Tibbs
Thesis, Master of Arts History
Marshall University, 2012
Citation: Tibbs, Kristen Marie, ""Semiotics of the Cloth": Reading Medieval Norse Textile Traditions" (2012). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. Paper 231.
A Bibliography of Cordage and Cordage Making (44-page, PDF)
"The Art of Ropemaking, by some strange fatality, has not attracted hitherto sufficiently the notice or attention of the mathematician, philosopher, or engineer, either in this country, or any part of the maritime world, with success"
by
Robert Chapman , 1868
Oldest Roman Hairstyle Recreated for First Time
by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
"A hairdresser at a Baltimore salon has stuck a pin in the long-held assumptions among historians about the hairstyles of ancient Rome and Greece."
Gladius
"Gladius publishes scientific contributions on the following subjects: Arms and Armour, Military History and Polemology, from the earliest times until the end of the Eighteenth century, mainly in the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, Islam and the Americas, although other contributions will be considered. It also contains a section on scientific discussion and reviews. (...)
Gladius provides free, unrestricted access to full-text articles immediately after publication in this online edition."
- A fantastic research resource!
Art of the Ancient World: Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Egyptian, & Near Eastern Antiquities (51-page, PDF)
Royal-Athena Galleries
No. 84 - Art of the Ancient World - Vol. XVIII - January 2007
CLASSICAL ART
Cycladic Marble Sculptures 3
Greek Marble Sculptures 6
Roman Marble Sculptures 9
Roman Wall Painting 20
Greek Bronze Sculptures 21
Etruscan Bronze Sculptures 23
Roman Bronze Sculptures, etc. 24
Ancient Bronze Animals 32
Images of Warfare, Helmets, and Arms 35
Greek Terracottas 48
Etruscan and Roman Terracottas 49
Early Greek Vases 51
Corinthian Vases 52
Attic Black-figure Vases 53
Attic Red-figure Vases 56
South Italian Vases 60
Etruscan and Roman Vases 64
Greek and Roman Glass 65
Classical Silver Vessels and Varia 67
Classical Gold Jewelry 68
BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL ART 71
ANCIENT VARIA 74
EGYPTIAN ART
Egyptian Stone Sculptures and Reliefs 75
Egyptian Bronze Sculptures 78
Egyptian Ushabtis 81
Egyptian Terracottas 82
Egyptian Wood & Cartonnage Sculptures 83
Egyptian Faience 88
Coptic Textiles 89
NEAR EASTERN ART 90
Anatolia, Syria, Urartu
South Arabia, Western Asia
COLLECTING ANCIENT ART 94
ROYAL-ATHENA GALLERIES 94
Expertise and Ethics 95
- This 51-page color PDF from the Royal-Athena Galleries has hundreds of photographs in the list of categories shown below. Pages 68-71 have photographs of lovely jewelery.
OFF Topic
What to Bring to the Potluck if You Don’t Cook (2-page, PDF)
by Sabrina de la Bere
- More class handouts.
Demi Octopus
by Jennifer Wang (on Ravelry.com)
Tutorial: Demi Octopus /
Pattern: Demi Octopus
by Jennifer Wang / Pigu Pigu Design (on Pigupigudesign.blogspot.ca)
'One Shot. One Life'
Documentary Explores the World of Japanese Archery
"Empty Mind Films, an independent film studio specializing in eastern mind and body practices, presents their latest film One Shot. One Life. The film explores the art of traditional Japanese archery, Kyūdō (literally, 'way of the bow'). In addition to covering the artisanal aspect of bow crafting, the beautiful shots of loosing arrows and ritual attached to the art itself are wrapped around a deeper meaning, namely that of perseverance; the film also depicts examinations for the 8th dan ranking, which some archers have been attempting for over 15 years."
Creative Costumes of Still-Practiced Pagan Rituals of Europe (19 pics)
"Now these are not your average Halloween costumes. For two years, French photographer Charles Fréger has been traveling throughout 19 European countries and trying to capture the spirit of what he calls "tribal Europe" in his "Wilder Mann" series. What he found was a huge array of pagan rituals, mainly related to the winter solstice and spring renewal, focusing on the common myth of the "wild man." It appears that the tradition of men dressing up as wild animals and monsters, which dates back to neolithic times and shamanism, is still very alive nowadays. The mythological figure of a "wild man" represents the complicated relationship humans have with nature and life and death cycles. His series explores the different interpretations of such figures – while some cultures depict him as covered in flowers or straws, others possess the features of bears, goats, or horned and hairy beasts."
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