Back when I was first making my copper-alloy needlecase, I wanted to make an appropriate chain from which to hang it. I'd seen a chain very much like this one, but longer, while at a museum in Lund with
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Jane Kershaw has been working on a project called Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches, 850-1050 as the basis for the book Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England. Click on "Downloads" for 366 images of brooches.

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Having taken a class by Lady Blitha of Wolfhou on medieval needle cases, I decided that I wanted to make a more contemporary needle case, as the one I've been wearing for several years is technically Bronze Age, and I knew I could create something both shinier and higher-status. I used a 9th century Norwegian find, on p. 241 of Roesdahl and Wilson ( Read more... )