Monday, May 5, 2025

Fascinating Textile Discovery in Scotland

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From BBC.com we have an article about a fascinating rare Iron Age textile find on display at the Scottish Crannog Centre in Kenmore, Perthsh...
Monday, March 31, 2025

New Book: Bog Fashion

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I don't know how I missed the Kickstarter for this project, but I just learned over the weekend that there is a new book coming out: Ni...
Monday, January 6, 2025

How Much Fur Did the Vikings Wear?

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To my readers: Happy New Year, and a wonderful 2025! Number 66 of the Archaeological Textiles Review is now available on the ATN Friends w...
Friday, August 9, 2024

A Shallow Beret

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I recently came across an article in Piecework magazine called "The History of the Beret." The Piecework article may be read her...

Margrethe Hald Archive

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I have spent too much time being, alternately, busy, exhausted, and sick, to want to blog much. But the discovery I made on the Internet to...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

An Excellent Lucet Article

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Common modern lucet. "Lucet" (or "lucette") is the name given, at least in English-language sources, to a type of device...
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Monday, December 11, 2023

New Wonders

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Now that our local election is over (don't ask) and I have less pressing law business, maybe I can resume at least posting about histori...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Fashioning The Viking Age

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Happy September! During the summer I was too busy to think about historic costume, let alone blog about it.   So it was a delightful experie...