Viking Age Needle Case Project

[ragnvaeig]

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

Comments

[sorcha715]

Really looks lovely. After you rolled it around the dowel, what did you do to keep the edges together?

[ragnvaeig]

I added a jump ring. It holds it together just fine and I didn't need to use our (broken) soldering iron.

[m_nivalis]

It looks very good (although to my eyes it just begs for some incised decoration - can't remember the original and don't have the book here, so I may be totally historically incorrect here), and I'm sure they would be very appreciated presents/donations.

The chain is very pretty. Glad you found a use for the photo set.

[ragnvaeig]

The original I was using was plain, but there are several pretty, incised Saxon needle cases.

[gwacie]

Solid awesome covered in awesome sauce :)

[runolfr]

Spiff!

[mothie]

Very nice. 8-]