greetings,
The pile fabrics were much less like velvet and much more like shag
rugs. There are pile fabrics found in late antique/ early medieval
in northern Europe. So while the velvet poofy pants wouldn't be
correct and period, poofy pants made of shag would. >:D
Althea
On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
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
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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
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