Viking & Dark Aged

Women's Clothing

Viking womans gear

D shaped mantle with rabbit fur trim wool - handsewn

Back drape

wool - handsewn & Hand embroidered

Hedeby Apron Dress

Harris Tweed Hand spun, woven & Dyed wool - handsewn & Hand embroidered

Under Tunic Linen - handsewn

The over aim was to get as close as possible the Look depicted on Valkyrie Pendants and the grave finds at Birka

Inga Hägg has determined there is a 'mantle' (mantel) or 'coat' (tröja) and an apron-dress (kjol)

Pendant, valkyrie.

Silver.

Source location: Grave find, Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden.

Dating from : Viking

Collection information: Staten Historiska Museum, Stockholm SHM 34000:Bj 968

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6881051087/in/photostream

Pendant, female figurine.

Silver.

The figurine portrays a female figure interpreted as a valkyrie.

Source location: Sibble, Grödinge, Södermanland, Sweden.

Dating from : Viking

Collection information: Staten Historiska Museum, Stockholm SHM 20672

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6881050081/in/photostream

Mount, valkyrie.

Silver.

Source location: Klinta, Köping, Öland, Sweden.

Dating from : Viking

Collection information: Staten Historiska Museum, Stockholm SHM 128

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6881049229/in/photostream

Pendant, female figurine.

Silver, gilded.

The figurine may represent Frigg, the most powerful of the Asynjurs.

Source location: Grave find, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden.

Dating from : Viking

Collection information: Staten Historiska Museum, Stockholm SHM 10035: III (F23)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6880525421/in/photostream

Hedeby Apron Dress

The harbour yielded two large smokkr fragments of fine repped wool (not unlike the repped wool found at Birka). The fabric had been dyed brown

Source location: Hedeby / Haithabu Denmark. ( Now in Germany, near the Danish border)

Dating from : 10th C

Collection information: Catalog no: Hedeby

Birka Apron Dresses

Inga Hägg, in her 1974 text Kvinnodräkten i Birka. Livplaggens rekonstuktion på grunval av det arkeologiska materialet, has a handy-dandy grave register up the back on page 120. Of the 163 female graves that contained brooches (p. 106, German summary), less than 100 had textile remains that allowed for reconstruction (hence, p. 120), and only six of those graves were determined to have contained an apron dress, and some sort of outer garment.

These are... Bj 464, 465, 507, 838, 839 and 987.

Source location: Grave finds, Birka, Sweden

Dating from : Viking

Collection information: Staten Historiska Museum, Stockholm SHM

Flemming Bau work found mixtures of the following dress items in the women graves

a - linen shirt (tunic) - smooth or plisirovanaya - fastened to a round fibula;

B - Silk tunic decorated with braid;

C - "Dress" of two panels, calling to each other and bonded oval brooches;

D - jacket or coat, fastened front with trifoliate, equal-or large circular brooches,

e - Drape (cloak), sealed front fibula

and gave to options of the combinations

Option A - "dress",

Option B - "dress" and apron,

Option C - "dress" apron and pleated cape,

Option D - "dress" and pleated cape;

References:

Reconstructing a Viking Hanging Dress from Haithabu by Peter Beatson and Christobel Ferguson

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/hangerock/hangerock.htm

Kvinnodräkten i Birka. Livplaggens rekonstuktion på grunval av det arkeologiska materialet by Inga Hägg

Seler OG Slaeb I Vikingetid. Birka's kvindedragt I nyt Lys (Straps and trains in the Viking Age: femail Birka's Costume in a New Light) . by Flemming Bau

http://asgard.tgorod.ru/libri.php?cont=_fem1

Viking Women: Aprondress By Hilde Thunem

http://urd.priv.no/viking/smokkr.html

Viking Women: Underdress By Hilde Thunem

http://urd.priv.no/viking/serk.html

Skjoldehamn Blanket Retangle Cloak

In 1936, a body was found in a bog near Skjold harbor (Skjoldehamn), on the Norwegian island of Andøya. In total, along with the skeleton, an under tunic, over tunic, pants, hood, hose, leg wrappings, shoes, braided belt and knife handle were found. It appears they were wrapped in a checked fabric blanket, and laid upon a reindeer skin

Source location: Skjold harbor, Skjoldehamn, Andøya, Norway

Dating from : 995-1029 AD

Collection information: Lofotr Vikingmuseum

Link to Museum photos of original

http://photo.qip.ru/photo/rusia/1249634/118294591.jpg

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=30411TMU

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=30416TMU

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=30402TMU

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=30403TMU

References:

Nye tanker om Skjoldehamnfunnet” by Dan Halvard Løvlid

The Skjoldehamn find in the light of new knowledge By Dan Halvard Løvlid & English Translation by Carol Lynn

http://www.ceilingpress.com/Resources/SkjoldehamnFindInLightofNewKnowledge.pdf

New thoughts on the Skjoldehamn Find by Baroness Gwynnyd

http://www.expo-conv-svcs.com/Pennsic40/SkjoldehamnClassHandout.pdf

Skjoldehamn Blanket Retangle Cloak

Hand woven on a rigid heddle loom in a 2/2 diamond twill in natural shades of wool

Rigid weaving heddles have been found from Roman times onwards

Roman bone heddle at the Hancock Museum

båndgrind - Rigid heddle from Alstadhaug, Nordland From the Norsk Folke Museum's database

Birka Kaftan

wool & fur - Hand sewn

luceted silver wire and red wool banding

Caucasus Kaftan

made of Silk, linen, and fur;

Source location: Caucasus Mountain regions

Dating from : 8th–10th century,

Collection information: Met Museum

Link to Museum photos of original

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1996.78.1http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1996.78.1

References:

VV Issue 66 A fur lined Rus kaftan by Jenny Baker page 17

http://nvg.org.au/portal.php?what=link&item=20070503062351248

Rus Trader by Peter Beatson http://www.miklagard.nvg.org.au/costume/rus/trader/rus_main.htm

Novgorod Boots

Source location: Novgorod Russia

Dating from :

Collection information:

References:

original pattern found in 1994 at "Rurikovo gorodische" - ancient Novgorod that is one of the oldest and the strongest North Europe strongholds

http://armstreet.com/catalogue/full/short-celtic-medieval-shoes-2.jpg

Viking footwear known as Osebergskängan, in Oseberg ship find.

Source location: Oseberg, Norway

Dating from : 800 - 850 CE

Collection information: Universitetets Oldsaksamling, Oslo, Oseberg

References:

Hald, Margarethe. Primitive Shoes: An Archaeological-Ethnological Study Based Upon Shoe Finds from the Jutland Peninsula. Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, 1972

http://vitezek.io.ua/album213075

Link to Museum photos of original

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=56568KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=56570KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=56569KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366884KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366865KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366886KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366866KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366887KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366867KHM

http://www.unimus.no/foto/#/I=366888KHM