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* Skjoldehamn, Norway (~1075): The decorative square and collar on the shirt were of stripped striped 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 stripes of paired threads. In one case the strips stripes may well have been dyed with madder to accentuate the pattern. [PRITCHARD 1984, : p. 52)
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - late C10th): 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 stripsstripes. [PRITCHARD 1984, : p. 57)
*Hedeby-Settlement: Fragment S 27A is a 2/2 diamond twill which has two darker warp threads (ca. 1mm) after every ten light warp threads (ca 10mm). All the weft threads are dark. Under magnification the light threads are a reddish-yellow-brown, the darker threads are a reddish-brownblack, indicating a fabric woven from natural lighter and darker threads which was dyed red. (HAGG 1991, : p. 80)
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