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

[Joy Cain]

Here is a cool translation i just found regarding the Mammen shirt.
http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Viborg/VIBORG.HTM

Joy

Carolyn Priest-Dorman wrote:

> 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
>  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html
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