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

[CRMayhew]

That *is* a really cool translation, but isn't the Viborg shirt a different
shirt?

--charlotte mayhew



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From: "Joy Cain" <jcain@insight.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Mammen tunic (was Re: Textile Questions)


> 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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