Thanks Cathy!
Beth
At 03:16 PM 7/26/2007, you wrote:
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:47:47 -0400
From: Catherine Olanich Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Today on the World Wide Web I stumbled across an English summary by
Australian
reenactor Peter Beatson of a recent report in Russian, about a Viking era
archaeological find at Pskov in Russia. Apparently a grave at a dig there
turned up two characteristic tortoise brooches, together with some folded
textiles, in a birchbark box. (They definitely were not on a human body.)
The brooches had the remains of loops of "blue linen" around the pins inside
them. The folded textiles were quite large. One was a panel, about a meter
long and 26 cm wide, consisting of silk strips which the researchers deduced
(on the basis of stitching marks that may have fastened loops) to be
ornamentation from the top of an apron dress. The other piece appears to be a
gathered neckline from a smock or underdress, in blue linen. A sketch of the
possible appearance of these garments when new is provided, both with
Beatson's summary and with the original Russian-language report by the
Russian researchers.
Beatson's summary:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/sarafan/sarafan.htm
Russian report:
http://pskovarheolog.ru/68.html
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Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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