Men's Viking - Mammen 10th century
Extant embroidery from grave in Mammen
My husband, who has a Scottish personal and loves his kilts, kept complaining on all the embroidery I completed for the royalty of the midrealm. He was especially fond of the embroidery I did for Eikbrander and Runa during their first reign in which I included designs from the mammen embroiderys found at http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_mammen.html
I finally decided I would surpise him, as much as you can with an embroidery project, and make him his own Viking outfit, complete with embroidery from the extant pieces and inkle woven leg wraps. The pants are a yarn dyed linen in brown, cream and pale yellow, the under tunic is a 3.5oz linen in "potting soil", and the outer tunic is a 5.3oz linen in "buckthorn brown."
The embroidery was completed using various colors of "Impressions" a wool/silk blend embroidery thread. I would like to fill in the faces along the bottom of the tunic so it stands out more, but need to set aside the proper time to delve into that since it is a bit time consuming. All of my stitching was done using the stem stitch, and any fill would be completed the same way. The faces are all from extant finds from the grave site at Mammen. The ox on the sleeve is from a celtic stone carving.
I will be adding picutres of him in this in the near future.
I finally decided I would surpise him, as much as you can with an embroidery project, and make him his own Viking outfit, complete with embroidery from the extant pieces and inkle woven leg wraps. The pants are a yarn dyed linen in brown, cream and pale yellow, the under tunic is a 3.5oz linen in "potting soil", and the outer tunic is a 5.3oz linen in "buckthorn brown."
The embroidery was completed using various colors of "Impressions" a wool/silk blend embroidery thread. I would like to fill in the faces along the bottom of the tunic so it stands out more, but need to set aside the proper time to delve into that since it is a bit time consuming. All of my stitching was done using the stem stitch, and any fill would be completed the same way. The faces are all from extant finds from the grave site at Mammen. The ox on the sleeve is from a celtic stone carving.
I will be adding picutres of him in this in the near future.