tea
( Jan. 1st, 2020 10:46 pm)
If you have come looking for information on medieval Korea, be sure to visit my website where things are hopefully grouped together coherently.

http://www.medieval-baltic.us/korea.html

If you're looking for information about medieval sign lexicons, and language, see:
http://medieval-baltic.us/msl.html
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tea
( Feb. 4th, 2010 06:03 pm)
I might have figured out what pre-dated the 'stargazer chair,' since it seems to be agreed that there isn't any medieval basis for it...

From: Purissima Benitez-Johannot. Sieges d'Afrique Noire du Musee Barbier-Mueller.(exhibition preview) African Arts (37)1 (Spring 2004): p.75

"In Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and many countries in West Africa, the canvas folding chair -- standard issue in colonial military camps, missionary stations, and administrative outposts -- evolved into the elegant, two-piece collapsible wooden chair..., standard issue in local villages and market stalls today."

p.78 has two photographs, one of a museum piece that is probably the most interesting when you're trying to date something prior to the 1960s... (emphasis mine):

"Folding chair, yatenzalanga, Senuto peoples, Côte d'Ivoire. Hardwood, longest dimension 82cm (32 1/4"). Former Josef Mueller Collection, acquired before 1939. BMG 1006-35."
The second picture is of a similar chair called a kaul.

I can't find a photo on the Musee Barbier-Mueller website, but what gave me this inspired idea in the first place, was that a few weeks ago I noticed one of these chairs in a Oxfam shop and started wondering...
I wonder if there is more evidence that it was derived from folding canvas chairs, or if it is just guessing on the part of the author, but at the very least there is a date we can point at.
I just have to point out, that this is a 14th century saga that involves playing footsie...

From snerpa.is:Bósi leit oft hýrliga til hennar ok sté fæti sínum á rist henni, ok þetta bragð lék hún honum.

"Bosi kept cheerily looking at her, and touched his feet to her instep, and she played the same trick with him."

The racier-sounding translation is:
"Bosi kept eyeing [the attractive young daughter] suggestively and touching her foot with his toe, and she did the same to him."
(From: "Bosi and Herraud" in Two Viking Romances. Trans. Pálsson, Hermann and Edwards, Paul (1995). Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. ISBN 0146001567.)
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tea
( Jan. 29th, 2010 02:50 pm)
Have you seen this, Folo?
http://www.historiska.se/historia/jarnaldern/vikingar/garden/ (click on the plow photo at the bottom for more stuff.)

Edit: Hilde Thunem's page about underdresses has something I hadn't noticed before. Where there are photos of two reconstructed sleeve styles of the under dress, the one on the left is an apron dress from Trelleborg museum, and it is the pleated-front style and it looks like the pleats are sewn down. Interesting!

and here's a mystery...

The last three messages of this Stefans Florilegium file about belts, says there is, supposedly, an o-ring belt 'on a woman's Viking dress' display at the Historiska Museet.
Here is what appears to be the reconstructed outfits at the museum:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dropletsoftime/230800829/
and the only belt I see is on the man's outfit. Mind you, this photo seems to have been taken about a year before the commentator visited the museum.

So, anyone have any different photos?
tea
( Jan. 23rd, 2010 12:40 pm)
Ah, so that why we don't know what the strap ends were doing in the Westness burial:
A farmer had accidentally dug up the grave, and buried a cow in it.

Page 136 of Vikings in Scotland: an archaeological survey, by James Graham-Campbell, and Colleen E. Batey. (Emphasis mine!)

...accidental discovery of the first grave in 1963. This was disturbed by a farmer burying a dead cow, so that little is known about the actual form of the grave. However, subsequent investigation, following the disinterment of the cow, revealed that it had contained a woman with a full term infant, who had presumably died in childbirth, buried with an exceptionally rich selection of ornaments and other objects...

Here's the 1963 mention of it page 42.

Gosh darn it!
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tea
( Jan. 22nd, 2010 03:14 pm)
Not what I was looking for (I am trying to find a picture of the woman from the Oseberg cart... help!) but here is a photo of the rudder of the Oseberg ship, with the leather band:
http://www.lab-retriever.net/board/taste-norway-photo-t7333384.html
and: http://www.pbase.com/ssanneru/oseberg&page=2

Edit: Found photos of the cart I was looking for at the Universitetsmuseenes Fotoportal.
tea
( Jan. 22nd, 2010 10:38 am)
á austrvega. Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference. Uppsala 9th-15th August 2009
http://hig.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:224754

Has both (huge!) volumes, but the contents page only mentions the author, not the title.

I haven't had a hard look at it, but there some are papers about(in no order) ...
Read more... )
tea
( Jan. 19th, 2010 12:21 pm)
At the Historiska Museet, 11-12th c.
At the Västergötlands museum, medieval to high-medieval.

I should also point out I found the last one in a different database-- Västarvet, Gotland.
If the link doesn't work, go 'Leta i samlingarna' > 'Föremål' > 'Sök i föremålsdatabasen' and then type in the 'fritext' box.
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tea
( Jan. 19th, 2010 10:02 am)
While trying to find out if anything new has happened with the Known World Handbook re-write, I found a 2006 Grand Council report discussing what they should put in it:

Motion: All articles in the new KWH should be written with the multi-kingdom and international aspects of the modern SCA in mind. Contributors should be encouraged to include references to the differences among Kingdoms as well as point out potential difficulties or differences that may impact SCA participants outside the US.

Translation )

In short: I love the fact that it is only the US-Americans who are going to be traveling overseas (and apparently being easily confused by the existence of foreign countries, or even Canada), not the other way around.
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Sorry, just had to repost this, from [profile] luscious_purple

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Miss Margarethe Lehmann Filhés sends a communication about Two Icelandic Mittens.

If anyone can help with a possible specialized textile term for aufzug, as in Der Handschuh ist aus gewebtem Stoff mit feinem Aufzug, doch sehr dickem Einschlag, gefertigt, I'd love to know, it sounds like 'fabric with fine ribbing' to me... so a textured twill?

And I keep on finding typos, sorry.
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tea
( Jan. 13th, 2010 07:50 pm)
Awesome! Found an online merchant that sells temple rings, and what looks awfully like some Finno-Ugric pendants, although I know nothing about Rus' archaeology.
http://armourandcastings.com/

They seem to be based in the Ukraine, but the shipping cost (for little things at least) doesn't look too bad.
Thought it might be useful for someone, let me know if you've dealt with these guys before.
This is me experimenting with what I can do with bobbins that isn't whipcording. :)

This is a 10-strand 'diagonal' fingerweaving pattern, that has two pink threads to show how the threads zig-zag. It is about 1.5cm wide, since I was aiming for something I could use as a belt.
Diagram 4 on that webpage illustrates the technique.

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It was interesting to make, as most of the machine-made belts I'd seen were made from much stuffer material, and I suspect that is why my woollen piece looks a bit wavier. If you're using stiffer stuff, then you can also fold the 'threads' to make a neater and better-defined edge.
eg. weaving with blades of grass.

(Astute observers will note one end as three plaits and the other has four. The fourth plait comes from the... I have no idea what it's called, but I've seen it in sprang too... where I interlocked an extra piece at the end before I plaited the ends. Oh, and I lost about 45cm of string length in the weaving. It's now about 240cm long.)

Next on the list is the 'chevron' pattern, which seems to closely match up with what Hald describes and draws as the structure of some fragments from Mammen. I think I'll wait until I get better at the technique before I move from 10 threads to 24.

PS.
I'm really not sure I understand the theory here (.doc)/Google cache HTML about the fingerwoven fragments looking identical to sprang. But it seems to be one of the better descriptions of the Mammen fragments I've been thinking about.
Any textile people able to comment?
Cut for mild vulgarity )

I still can't fathom why any of that would have a place in *any* re-enactment group.
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"Changes in Toilet Features"
Paleolithic Age to Jomon Period: Disposal of Excrement by Natural Dissolution
http://memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br/98sup/15pctf.html

Palaeoparasitology in Japan - Discovery of toilet features
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0074-02762003000900019&script=sci_arttext

And there is a new book out on the topic
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091222a5.html

I admit, I knew of some articles on parasites found inside mid-Joseon period mummies, but there is an entire blog devoted to Korean paleopathology: http://shinpaleopathology.blogspot.com/

D. H. Shin, C. S. Oh, T. Chung, Y. S. Yi, J. Y. Chai, M. Seo "Detection of parasite eggs from a moat encircling the royal palace of Silla, the ancient Korean Kingdom" Journal of Archaeological Science 2009.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH8-4WSHK80-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1155499321&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=28ab7bfa4ca387e6a699fafc7b6756b9
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tea
( Dec. 31st, 2009 05:54 pm)
The Mnemosyne: Visual Culture Database
from Columbia University. Found it while looking at Liao tomb murals.
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tea
( Dec. 31st, 2009 10:13 am)
Found a double strap-end grave.
9th century, Westness, Rousay, Orkney Islands.
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-099-764-C
Thought it might be useful for people.

Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards (1848)
http://www.archive.org/details/factsspeculation00chatuoft
http://www.archive.org/details/illustratedkeyto00dela

Das Strassburger Würfelbuch von 1529
http://www.archive.org/details/strassburgerwurfe00gozeuoft

Prophetical, educational and playing cards
http://www.archive.org/details/propheticaleduca00vanruoft

Occult texts and fortune telling )

And sort-of related:
The Shakesperean oracle (1855)
http://www.archive.org/details/shakespereanorac00shak

Tea-cup Reading and Fortune Telling
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18241
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This isn't the webpage I *thought* I would be putting up, but it's a quick run down on the evidence for buckles and strap ends in Norse female Viking-age graves.

It would be an essay, except I really don't think I'm that knowledgeable when it comes to Norse stuff, and it's mostly designed for re-enactor types who really should be weighing up the evidence and making up their own minds.

Hopefully I'll have more up tonight about belts worn by women in neighbouring cultures.
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