Of course Linen is not as durable in an extant situation as is wool.
Ron Carnegie
I know of no examples of linen outerwear from the later Middle Ages.
However, in an essay published in "Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe"
Inga Hagg published the results of a stratographic analysis of grave finds
at Birka, which indicated that some of the linen fragments found did not
come from a shift (i.e. underwear) but from a "caftan" or "mantle"--an
outer garment. In a different essay (of which I've read reports but do
not have a copy) she has posited that some of the outerwear layer linen
fragments belonged to the so-called "apron dress". To my knowledge,
however, the Birka linen fragments have not been exposed to the sort of
analysis that would enable a determination of whether they had been dyed
or not.
--
Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical
results, but that's not why we do it."--Richard Feynman
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