I have taken on a posament project, the interpretation of a headdress after Birka grave 798. The drawing of the excavation shows how several posament braids were around the skull. The reconstruction of the braid P1 is no problem and I have already made several braids of this type. But the braid P2 caused me […]
When I started making posaments some 10 years ago no high-resolution photographs of the original finds were available. There were the black and white images from Birka III and low-resolution photographs published by the SHM on their online database. All those images lacked the details to see the exact braiding of the wires. My reproductions […]
Ich habe Schmuck aus Zinn nach Vorlagen aus Haithabu in einfachen Holzformen gegossen.
This is the english version of an article I wrote a while ago. The fragment of an apron dress found in Hedeby has a plait braided from six threads in red and yellow sewn over a tuck. A black and white photograph and a reconstruction sketch can be found in the book „Die Textilfunde aus dem […]
Bei Untersuchungen unter Wasser wurde in Birka ein Teil gefunden das durchaus ein Taschenbügel sein könnte. Gefunden auf Facebook. In den Kommentaren dort wird es auch als Taschenbügel identifiziert. Passend als Ergänzung zu meinem letzen Taschenbügel-Artikel.