Updated Viking Apron Dress

[ragnvaeig]

Every few years, I try to update my apron dresses to make them more historically accurate. This time I've gone with some relatively simple updates to my grey-black dress, all incorporating the concept of reinforcing edges with cords--a sewing technique found in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Viking textiles.

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[stringlady]

I don't know much about viking era clothing, but there are all those interesting false seams in the Greenland finds...

[gwacie]

I did not know that about darts! Sweet (any accessible journal that has the info on those finds I could look up? I have a University IP so I can get stuff if it's on JStor or a journal my University subscribes to.)

And I want more pictures :) A nice before and after shot would be cool to see the effect of the edging on the piece as a whole.

I just learned how to do the cardwoven edges in the 14th century stuff and have been dying to use it in a garment :)

[ragnvaeig]

Inga Hagg talks about the darts, but both of the really detailed sources I have from her are books in German. I got my information from her Textilfunde aus dem Hafen, approximately pages 42-48.

Before of the dress would be this one here.

I used that London cardwoven edge on my red GFD, and I love it. You really should use it!

[ragnvaeig]

Updating is cheaper than starting from scratch, and then I'm less unhappy with the overall state of my wardrobe.

Like I said above, they're from Inga Hagg's Textilfunde aus dem Hafen. The footnote I recorded cites several pages in the 40s, so it's in there somewhere.