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
___
h-costume mailing list
h-costume@mail.indra.com
http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
