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Published: 2011-03-06 08:18:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 37965; Favourites: 383; Downloads: 442
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This is a pic of my ex wife Kerstin in her new outfit.Details are mostly Gotlandic. Her under garment is a line kirtle with white and red linen tablet braids. On top of that she is wearing a woolen herribone patterned dress and a diamond patterned woolen apron dress with woolen brown/green/white tablet braids. On her head she is wearing a woolen naalbinding cap. Jewelry and knife is for the most part of Goltandic origin.
I will post some close ups later on.
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I'll be sure to tell her
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Ååh, jag älskar verkligen din frus hängselklänning förklädesklänning!! vet du om man kan köpa samma sort någonstans? Eller om din fru någon gång får lust att sälja denna, då är jag mycket intresserad *+*+***
välsignelser, Lyckeliv
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Exfru 
Lycka till!
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Both my ex and her costume are rare beauties
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Thank you. I'll be sure to let her know
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Thank you very much. I'l tell her you though so
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oh what a lovely costume *.* the girl is also nice
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This is awesome and she is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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Ahhh, how lovely!
Wonderful costume. Ahhhh, wool is 
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My wife will be happy to hear it
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awww she looks also so lovely and got such a wonderfull smile!
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She has a great smile but can also be very angry if provoked. I've heard the hardness of the viking wives will grow smoother with age. I'm looking forward to retirement
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hahahaha, I don't think they lost their heart, I'm also a viking woman ( I just don't submit so much pix of me here) and I also can be very angry hehe but just a real viking woman knows how to love hehehe
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Oh...all I can take credit for here is the picture. The rest is the work of my wonderful wife
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Oooooh it must be so cold in those shoes in the snow... *shivers*
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She has a sturdy pair of naalbiding socks so she is fine as long as she does not get wet.
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I'll be sure to tell her
Thanx!
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Great outfit, beautiful, earthy colors and super earnest smile
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She'll be glad to hear it
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Nice photo! What knife is that she's wearing?
Best regards
ShofNott
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Thank you!
She is wearing a knife she made herself (to be exact she did all but the knife. She did not forge the blade but made the sheath and the handle). It is based on a find from Gotland. The original was probably a tiny bit smaller.
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What are the beads made of? In the olden days they would have come from around half the planet, where are they from today?
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These beads are made from glass and ceramics. I do not know where these beads are made. During the iron age glass beads were made localy here in Sweden.
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Were they made in a few workshops or was it widespread? Also, what is the date that they started making them? And, if the skilled labour was at first imported, as well as who controlled the distribution.
I have read somewhere that it was a status symbol to get the beads from afar. Byzantium was famous for the glass blowing. In the early middle ages objects were made in Byzantium to suit the 'barbarian' tastes along with the clasps, belts - they had both soldiers from various tribes AND they often payed tribute to other tribes. And there was a Viking guard in Constantinople up until the XI century (though, I would have to check who exactly was in it, I know only of Harald Hardrada).
One bead was found in England from early middle ages in a Saxon village that was done in milleflori tehnique! The archaeologists concluded that it came from mediteranean. It came all the way west, but we don't know through which way - pillage, trade, pilgrimage...
Etc. it would be fascinating to see where exactly beads came from and what was the trade scope, chanells of communication etc.
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Certainly you are right. Lots of bead were imported, both from the east and the south. We know for a fact that beads (such as millefiori beads) were made localy in Scandinavia in places like Bika, Goltand and Haithabu. Whether these beads were made by local craftsmen or by imported foreign artists is hard to know. Beads made from amber were most likely made localy by local craftmen and from local material. Glass were both imported, recyled and produced localy. It seems like the scandinavians did not master the technique to make transparent glass very well so such material would most likely have been imported.
It is really hard to trace a specific type of glass bead to a certain region as the glass was recycled and the style and looks of the beads seems to be the same in different regions although very far apart.
Anyway, it is a really fascinating subject.
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I'm studying Everyday life in Byzantium right now and the trade routes of glass, silk, wheat, amber, spices, salt... are so very fascinating to me at the moment.
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Cool! It's a great subject area with lots more researche to be done.
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Fantastic!! What a brilliant outfit!! So detailed!
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I'll be sure to tell her
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thanks for living us the old times!
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Thank you
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Wow! She is so beautiful, and the outfit is amazing!! Um... I'm trying to design a Viking character for a roleplay game, would you mind if I used some of your photos for ideas/reference?
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Of course not! Just go a head. Be sure to send me a link to your work when it's done
/V
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