[Regia-NA] Ruggs (shaggy cloaks)

[J Hill]

Carolyn:  Would the darned pile work for 1000 AD A-S in Jorvik?  Jennifer
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From: "Carolyn Priest-Dorman" <capriest@cs.vassar.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Ruggs (shaggy cloaks)


> Tracie wrote:
>
> >Did the lady who wove the shaggy cloak tie those
> >fleece tufts in after weaving it or while weaving it?  I did
> >a similar project but I latch-hooked the tufts into already
> >woven fabric.  I haven't done in-depth research on the
> >subject (indeed, some of the relevant archaeology hadn't been
> >done yet), but I gather that the effect could have been
> >achieved using a weaving technique similar to velvet weaving,
> >but with much longer nap.
>
> I've written two articles on this topic.  The short version goes like
this....
>
> Structurally, velvet is a supplementary warp pile weave for which there is
> no evidence in Europe until well after the Viking Age.  But there are
> extant pre-Viking Age examples of pile-woven textiles from several English
> and Frisian sites as well as at Valsgarde, and there are a number of
Viking
> Age examples in locations from Iceland to Sweden and Poland.  In the
Viking
> Age, technologically speaking there are three classes of pile-woven
> textile.  Two of them have pile woven into them, and the major difference
> is that one class uses yarn (a la rya rugs) and the other uses locks of
> wool (a la shaggy cloak) as the pile.  The third class uses pile (unspun
or
> loosely twisted fleece) that has been darned into the textile with a
needle.
>
> Putting pile in with a latch hook sounds closest to the "darned pile"
class
> of textile, to me.
>
>
> Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
>   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html
>
>
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