For fans of early medieval Baltic culture: Peter Beatson recently published a brief, but well-illustrated article about a 9th century Latvian cloak found in a bog. Unlike many cloaks finds from the Baltic, this one is undecorated, but like most other finds it is made from dark blue wool--and the excellent black-and-white photographs Beatson has included with the article show that it's a 2/2 diagonal twill.
His article can be read here.
What a cool article! Thank you for linking to it.
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