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Thoughts on Documentation for various projects intended to be used as A&S competition entries
Ansteorra Kingdom Arts and Sciences - 9 Feb 2008
a pair of 10th C Viking Men's hats woven in wool and hemp
Overview
- Pair of blue wool caps in the Birka ‘B’ style
- Based upon the descriptions and analysis of fragments found in the eastern Viking city of Birka
- Outer cap is a blue wool single ply woven in a typical 2/1 twill weave
- The work cap includes a lining woven from a hemp single ply yarn in a tabby (plain) weave
| How they did it | How I did it |
|---|---|
| Obtain a single ply wool yarn from | Same |
| Dye the thread in the desired color | The yarn was a pleasant blue that is quite plausible for a woad or indigo dye available for the target time and culture |
| Set the warps for a 1/2 twill | Same |
| Prepare a warp for a warp weighted loom by creating a tablet woven band using the warp of the desired lengths to create the cloth as the weft for the tablet weaving band | Woven on a horizontal floor loom in order to gain experience in producing cloth before translating it into practical experience producing yardage on the warp weighted loom |
| Open and close the yarns in sets passing the weft through and beating it until proper tension, making the desired weave | Same, used a direct tie up to better emulate the mechanics of the warp weighted loom |
