On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Nordtorp-Madson, Michelle A. wrote:
One isolated example is the cache of grave clothing from medieval Greenland. I know a lot of people use them as typical for Europe as a whole, but that really can't be done. If you look closely at "Woven into the Earth" by Else Østergaard, you will see how they were patched. Again, a good number of garments, but probably doesn't say anything about the larger context.
An even richer source of examples of patching from an even earlier date comes from the Bernuthsfeld tunic (from Lower Saxony, dated in the 2nd half of the 1st millennium) which is almost more patches than original cloth! One of the NESAT volumes has an article looking at all the various patches in great detail.
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