Hi Bjarne I know you've been working with spangles/bezants and thought you'd be interested in this site.
This came from the SCA Bead list. ***I know there are a number of peopel who are hungry for these things and have been toying with making some - tonight was a useful night of not sleeping. This is the last time I will call them bezants. They aren't bezants. They are something different, something almost purely germamic that orginally can from scadinavia and the vikings. They are/were money. At least they were to the 15th C. They were being made decoratively I'm sure as soon as folks started sewing them on to things to keep from losing them. Schmuckbrateaten (Ornamental thin coins) or Bracteaten thats what I will call them now. I have a number of links up , (more on the way I'm sure) including one that has a diagram (and a few described processes) on how they were made (just as I have said all this time, stamped baby) They are just thin one sided coins. http://medievalbeads.com/docs/docs-bezants.shtml (I also got my classes on the front page for pennsic, updated the "bezants" page, and redid the class notes page - much clearer now) now to bed griz*** Julie in San DIego _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
