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Ron wrote:
>Some cards and attached weavings, and
>a few other textiles are there to look at, and are also reproduced in
>publications available at the museum. Indeed there may be more
>somewhere in drawers, but that's beyond my basic info at a tourist
>level. The total amount of material found is small, and I think is
>pretty much all on display.
The Oseberg textile assemblage is *huge*. According to Anne Stine Ingstad,
who published a brief technical article cataloguing a few of the textiles
nearly 20 years ago, "the total textile material consists of 277 catalogue
numbers," which she says makes it "perhaps the finest collection of
textiles ever found in one grave." There are 74 catalogue numbers devoted
to domestic, functional, and non-decorative clothing textiles, plus there's
the truly enormous number of catalogue numbers comprising the tapestry
woven materials. A small quantity of published material is available on
each of these categories so far, and it is still very sketchy. There are
also a few published sketches (and one photo of which I know) of a few of
the silks, a category of unknown size. But what Nancy and I are really
burning about is the complete silence so far on the tablet weaving!
Carolyn Priest-Dorman
capriest @ cs. vassar .edu
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