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Patterned Cloth

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|Archaeology=
* Skjoldehamn, Norway (~1075): The decorative square and collar on the shirt were of stripped 2/1 twill. The base colour is red with narrow strips of green and yellow next to each other. [Lovlid 2009 p. 97)
 
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - early C12th): Three of the nine tabby woven fragments had weft strips of paired threads. In one case the strips may well have been dyed with madder to accentuate the pattern. [PRITCHARD 1984, p. 52)
 
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - early C12th): A 2/2 twill was found which had a thicker thread in every third weft, which was dyed red with madder the other weft threads were dyed blue (woad), creating a textile which would have been blue with red strips. [PRITCHARD 1984, p. 56)
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