[Regia-NA] Mammen tunic (was Re: Textile Questions)

[Carolyn Priest-Dorman]

Hazel wrote:

>The Mammen tunic (970-971AD) would seem to have had a centre gusset - at 
>least that is how it has been re-constructed in the National Museum in 
>Copenhagen.

Not enough remains of the Mammen tunic to be able to make out any details 
of how it was cut.  According to what Lise Bender Jorgensen told me when I 
asked her, the overall look of the Canute tunic at the National Museum was 
based on the illustration of King Canute from the Liber Vitae in the early 
11th century.  She said they used the Bocksten and Thorsbjerg tunics to 
derive the pattern pieces.  (Yes, I know....  Isn't it scary to think that 
you have higher standards than a bunch of museum workers in a major 
museum?)  Accordingly, I don't think we can draw any conclusions at all 
about whether the museum folk there thought the Mammen tunic had gussets.


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
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