There's been a lot of really cool experimental archeology in the re-enactment world looking at all the bits of the Birka find. Any textiles those bits you're looking at were once attached to are long gone, and just the metal is left.
Certainly the posaments are gorgeous when recreated. One example is here: https://earlysweden.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/10th-century-posament-based-on-f inds-at-birka/ The most comment reference to the loopy stuff is viking wire weaving.. which is a really neat technique to go investigate. I wouldnt call any of them lace, or textiles in their own right. I tend to define 'needle lace' as requiring both a needle and thread, and these are all metal. But I <3 them just the same. Happy Friday! Heather in suddenly cool SW Ontario, Canada On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 6:12 AM AGlez <antje.gonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nancy, > > This document is really interesting. It will take me a while to read it all > through. No wonder you are excited about this finding! Thanks a lot for > sharing! > > Antje González, from Spain > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
