I haven't heard of the Egyptian piled fabric, but as far as I know, velvet was invented well *after* the Viking Age, so no velvet Viking poofy pants! ;oD --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "otsisto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:38 PM Subject: [h-cost] velvet question > On a Norse list some people are trying to find out whether velvet or velvet > like material was around during the "Viking" age. > There is something about Egypt having a pile type fabric but someone send > that it was totally different from velvet. > So does anyone have the skinny on the subject? > Thank you, > De _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
