'Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs & Burials'-review req

Black Swan Designs · Post by **Black Swan Designs** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:33 pm

Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials: A Comparative Study of Costume and Iron Age Textiles- Margrethe Hald 1980

Does anyone have this book?

Is it a good reference book for the period?

Is it worth having?

Gwen

Mord · Post by **Mord** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:07 pm

I have seen the book in Danish, not English. If I were seriously interested in textiles, I'd probably buy it.

Mord.

Matthew Amt · Post by **Matthew Amt** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:41 pm

I was briefly and very grudgingly allowed to borrow a copy from a friend, years ago. All I did was photocopy a few tunic and trouser patterns, unfortunately, since I didn't know enough to realize what I had in my hand. From what little I remember, it could be THE reference source for that period! Suffice it to say that I'm considering crime to get her copy for my own... Well, maybe not, but I DO have to bug her about borrowing it again! In the past year or so I've gotten turned on by Bronze Age textiles and clothing, and am really slavering for new sources.

Of the particulars I remember, it has photos and patterns/drawings of the Thorsbjerg clothing, Kragelund and Moselund Mose tunics, several trapezoidal skin cloaks (all pieced together, very cool!), and a really neat fragment of something that looked for all the world like a checkered tablecloth but was actually patterned by crossed alternating bands of Z-spun and S-spun threads. It probably has a lot more info on the Bronze Age oak coffin burials, which, yeah, I'd kill for right now!

If you've got more money than me, buy it!!

Matthew

Brian W. Rainey · Post by **Brian W. Rainey** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:00 pm

There is a copy available here.

Black Swan Designs · Post by **Black Swan Designs** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:08 pm

Yes, I've been looking at that one in case Blackwell's can't produce the copy they have listed for $75.

Gwen