Llama and those things that look like llama, but I can't remember the name of. It is lovely, soft, warm, etc. By this time, I think they were trading with central american tribes.
That would be the camelids: llama, vicuna, alpaca and guanaco.But I dont think there's any evidence for textiles woven from them, or from anything else except bark and willow, on the eastern seaboard of Canada. Also, no cotton (too cold) and no flax (no evidence of it). The locals would have used skin and fur for clothing and blankets. However, once they learned to weave from the Vikings, who knows what they might have created? Look what the Navajo did once they got some sheep. Kim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Käthe Barrows Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:44 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland? > What kinds of fibers would the scraelings have had to weave with? Strips of leather? Strips of bunny fur? Some American native tribe wove of strips of bunny fur, but I don't remember who or when. >so what would they have made clothes and blankets out of? The Mexican natives (Aztec, Maya, etc.), and those south of them (Inca), wove of something like wool - goat? mountain sheep? - pre European conquest. Examples survive in museums. The Northwest Coast natives also wove, but I don't know when they started and if it was only after they got European wool. The American Southwest natives did too, same date/supply question. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
