Primitive Scandinavian Textiles In Knotless Netting

Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless Netting

Traditional Scandinavian Knitting

This classic guide to the styles of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands includes patterns for jerseys, gloves and mittens, stockings, and caps. 191 black-and-white and 20 color illustrations.

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic

Preface -- Introduction -- Note on Old Norse characters -- Part I. Textiles and their interpretation -- 1. Sheep, wool, and fleece processing: where it all began -- 2. Potential insights on archaeological textiles: the nature of preservation and the conservator's eye -- 3. King Harald's grey cloak: Vararfeldir and the trade in shaggy pile weave cloaks between Iceland and Norway in the late Viking and early Middle Ages -- 4. Re-clothing the inhabitants of tenth-century Dublin based on archaeological evidence -- 5. The sensory archaeology of early Medieval fabrics from the North Atlantic -- 6. The function of written textiles in the Íslendingasögur -- 7. The Medieval mantles of Hibernia: functional markers of ethnic identity -- Part II. Understanding through replicating -- 8. Making the best of it: planning decisions for reproduction fabrics -- 9. The value of intangible knowledge: how living history can aid experimental archaeology in exploring the past; Iron Age Scandinavian tablet weaving and Nalbinding -- 10. Collaborative working practices: creating and theorising Sprang -- 11. From wool to mitten: when history comes to life in your hands -- Glossary -- Index.