I followed your photo link, and then pawed through a whole backlog of your work. Can I learn to make pretty things like you when I grow up?
Also, random question: do you know if Vikings ever lined their coats/caftans/whatevers? I have this lovely wool to make one for the Boy Person, but I'm worried without a lining it'll stick to whatever else he's wearing and not flow nicely.
You're the second person to ask me exactly this in the past week.
For coats it's hard to say, because the tiny little shreds that survive are so fragmentary, that it's almost impossible to tell even what the garment looked like. But if you want to argue for it, you can cite Inga Hägg's Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu. Bericht 29, Textilfunde aus der Siedlung und aus der Gräbern von Haithabu, Bescheibung und Gliederung, specifically pages 39-45. She provides some "evidence" for lining (it's teeny tiny shreds, and could just as easily have been a pocket so I don't agree with her at all) and calls lining and fulling/waulking "important criteria" for outerwear, but she also specified that certain segments of a garment, e.g. sleeves, remained unlined, because the recovered sleeves didn't show evidence for lining.
I think one of the Birka graves (619, IIRC) has tiny coat shreds that might provide better evidence, but I don't own any of the books on Birka. You might ask a costumer, though.
I'm inclined to do the basic construction, and see how it wears over a tunic. If it works okay, then maybe I'll leave it, finish the seams, etc, and if it's getting stuck, then I'll be practical and line it, whether it's period or not. It's silly to have a coat one never wears because it doesn't wear well.
I did line the Rus' kaftan I made for Ruslan with linen so that it would wick sweat better at Pennsic. I'm fine with making decisions for practicality's sake so long as you know what's arguable from evidence and what isn't.
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But for that? For that I'll practice my ASS OFF.
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Also, random question: do you know if Vikings ever lined their coats/caftans/whatevers? I have this lovely wool to make one for the Boy Person, but I'm worried without a lining it'll stick to whatever else he's wearing and not flow nicely.
That ruff. Dude.
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For coats it's hard to say, because the tiny little shreds that survive are so fragmentary, that it's almost impossible to tell even what the garment looked like. But if you want to argue for it, you can cite Inga Hägg's Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu. Bericht 29, Textilfunde aus der Siedlung und aus der Gräbern von Haithabu, Bescheibung und Gliederung, specifically pages 39-45. She provides some "evidence" for lining (it's teeny tiny shreds, and could just as easily have been a pocket so I don't agree with her at all) and calls lining and fulling/waulking "important criteria" for outerwear, but she also specified that certain segments of a garment, e.g. sleeves, remained unlined, because the recovered sleeves didn't show evidence for lining.
I think one of the Birka graves (619, IIRC) has tiny coat shreds that might provide better evidence, but I don't own any of the books on Birka. You might ask a costumer, though.
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I'm inclined to do the basic construction, and see how it wears over a tunic. If it works okay, then maybe I'll leave it, finish the seams, etc, and if it's getting stuck, then I'll be practical and line it, whether it's period or not. It's silly to have a coat one never wears because it doesn't wear well.
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