It would have been very helpful if these ancient cultures had
produced a Sears and Roebucks catalog so that it would make it easier
to identify what they wore. :D
I'll get the articles thru ILL. I am mostly interested in Merovingian
clothing, so the Gallo-Roman garments are a start. I'm leaning toward
a cut and sewn sock, of a 2x2 twill linen, that extends to just above
the knee and is cross-gartered into place.
Thank you!
Althea Rizzo
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On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
On Sep 25, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Althea Turner wrote:
Does anyone know which museum the garment known as St Germain's
hose is in?
Is there a better picture than the one in Kohler?
The items is pictured and described in:
Schmedding, Brigitta. 1978. Mittelalterliche Textilien in Kirchen
und Klostern der Schweiz. Abegg Stiftung, Bern.
which indicates that (at that date) it was held at the Jurassien
Museum, Delemont, Switzerland.
There's also a photo of it in Boucher's "20,000 Years of Fashion".
Note that the authors I've seen discussing this item agree that the
association with St. Germain (and thus the supposed 7th century
date) is certainly false. Schmedding is of the opinion that a 12th
c. date is more likely.
Any other images of extant hose, from 4-8th century?
You don't mention whether you're looking for a specific geographic
area. There are a few Egyptian nalebinding socks from that general
era (Burnham, Dorothy. 1972. Coptic Knitting: An Ancient
Technique. Textile History 3 (Dec. 1972), 116-124.) but they're
of a style that seems unlikely to have been popular in Europe.
A little earlier than your date-range, there's a pair of woolen cut-
and-sewn socks from 1st-2nd c. France (currently at Musée Bargoin,
Clermont-Ferrand, France). They're published in a number of
places, although none that are particularly easy to access.
Probably the most likely to be available is:
Desrosiers, Sophie & Alexandra Lorquin. 1998. "Gallo-Roman Period
Archaeological Textiles found in France" in Textiles in European
Archaeology (NESAT Symposium 6) ed. Lise Bender Jørgensen &
Christina Rinaldo. Göteborg.
After that, the earliest sock/hose-like items I've been able to
identify in Europe are include the ca. 10-11th c. nalebinding sock
from York (Walton, Penelope. 1990. "Textile production at
Coppergate, York: Anglo-Saxon or Viking?" in Textiles in Northern
Archaeology (NESAT Symposium 3) ed. Penelope Walton and John-Peter
Wild. London.) and the early 11th c. full-length silk hose
associated with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (Schramm, Percy
Ernst & Florentine Mutherich. 1962. Denkmale der deutschen Konige
und Kaiser. Prestel Verlag, München.).
My database indicates that the ca. 7th c. finds at Bernuthsfeld
(Germany) included a set of leg wraps, but I'd have to look at the
original publication to see if I meant the sort of unshaped "cloth
wrapped around a foot inside a shoe, serving as a sock" or the sort
of narrow strip used as a wrapping for the lower leg. I suspect
the latter. The citations is from: Schlabow, Karl. 1976.
Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland. Karl Wachholtz
Verlag, Neumünster.
The following publication also includes something I cataloged as
"leg wraps" (I can see I need to clarify this in my database
coding): Banck, Johanna. 1998. "Ein merowingerzeitlicher
Baumsarg aus Lauchheim/Ostalbkreis -- Zur Bergung und Dokumentation
der Textilfunde" in Textiles in European Archaeology (NESAT
Symposium 6) ed. Lise Bender Jørgensen & Christina Rinaldo. Göteborg.
This list isn't likely to be at all complete, but it's what I
currently have entered into my surviving garments database. Which
this seems a good opportunity to plug:
http://www.heatherrosejones.com/survivinggarments/index.html
Heather Jones
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