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==Types of Cloaks==
===Folded===
''A double sized unlined rectangular cloak worn folded in double to create a smaller double lined cloak.''
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‘The old English phrase mid twifealdum is a glossing Latin of diploid (‘a double garment’), which suggests that the mentel could be double, either in the sense that they were sometimes lined, or that these names were applied to a type of luxurious cloak which was so large that it was folded double, lengthwise, round the body before being secured by its brooch at the shoulder, like the ancient cloaks’ [OWEN-CROCKER 2004: p.238] <br>
In other words they may have still been wearing the fold over cloak that was popular 500 years previously. }}<br>
===Shaped===
''A tailored cloak cut in a semi-circular pattern to make the cloak more comfortable to wear and to hang better.''
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===Hooded Cloak or Gaelic Coat===
''Either an open cloak with an attached hood or alternatively a poncho style of garment with an attached hood (Gaelic coat).''
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* Al-Udhri, a Spanish Muslim Geographer in 1083AD states that the Irish, or possibly the Icelanders, like to wear expensive clothing, particularly hooded cloaks. [OWEN-CROCKER 2004: p.266]. We know about this account due to Qazwini quoting parts of Al-Udhri in his C13th work. [WAITE 2000: p.310].
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Oxen-Crocker comments that the hooded-cloak may have been in use ‘for a long time’ by the Anglo-Saxons. She draws attention to images of beggars on the Harley psalter which appear to wear some sort of hooded garment. [OWEN-CROCKER 2004: p.264]
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===Leather or fur cloaks===
''Cloaks made from animal skins.''
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* Denmark [OWEN-CROCKER 1998::p.27], bogs from Hald
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===Fur or piled wool lining===
''A style of cloak edged with tablet weave bands where the threads that make up the <><> are left untrimmed to create a fringe.''
* Evebø, Norway,C5th. Body wrapped in an elaborate lightweight rectangular cloak with fringed edges ([PRIEST-DORMAN 1993)]* Thorsbjerg, Denmark, C2nd to C5th. ([EWING 2007, : p.71)]
* Vehenmoor, Germany,
([OWEN-CROCKER 2004, : p.108)]
Cloaks of this type would have to have been made on a Vertical loom?
==References==<nocite>EWING2007GRAHAM-CAMPBELL1980OWEN-CROCKER2004PRIEST-DORMAN1993WAITE2000</nocite><biblio force=false>#[[CategoryTemplate:Men's ClothingBib]]</biblio><HarvardReferences />