This abstracts is part of session #195:
Title:
Silk, silver and gold textiles in Danish Viking Age Graves
Content:
In Danish Viking Age graves, remains of textiles and tablet-woven bands made in silk, silver and gold threads have been recorded. Particularly in the rich male grave from Bjerringhøj in Denmark, dated to AD 971 exquisite silks and tablet-woven bands were found. Similar complicated but more fragmented layers of fur and silk textiles sewn together with silver and gold tablet-woven bands have been recorded in a rich female grave in Hvilehøj dated to the late 10th century AD.
We here present the latest analyses of the silk, silver and gold textiles found in these two graves which are current being studied within the scoop of the Danish Fashioning the Viking Age project at the National Museum of Denmark. The silk textiles have been analyzed, tested for dyes and by making reconstructions of the different textile qualities we are able to present a whole new aspect of Viking Age textile appearance. The study further emphasizes the great variation of silk textiles that the Vikings acquired on their travels and produced in their homelands.
Keywords:
Silk textiles, Tablet-woven bands, Viking Age
Main authors:
Ulla Mannering1
Co-author:
Charlotte Rimstad1
Affiliations:
1 National Museum of Denmark
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