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/* Sleevless */
==Shift Material==
===Linen===
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===Wool===
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==Style==
=== Smooth Linen ===
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===Pleated Linen===
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===Sleevless===
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* Luna MS Cotton Bv f.47r
* Evangeliar (Codex purpureus), Munchen Staatsbibliothek Cod lat. 23 632, f.24v. 9thC Germany. The child murders, showing the mothers with sleevless shifts, with deep front splits at the neck.* Rome, San Paolo fuori le Mura, Bible of S. Paolo furi le Mura. C9th
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===Tight, rucked sleeves===
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===Visible short (above ankle) shift [POOR]===
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* Woman on horse - some Viking stone?, interpreted to be a short shift [EWING 2007]
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==Decoration==
===Bleached or Natural cloth===
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===Dyed Cloth===
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|Archaeology= |Discussion* Birka, Sweden (----) In Birka all fragments of linen assumed to be under shifts are of a light colour, either natural or white. (HAGG 1986, p.61)
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Although some dyed and patterned linen was found at Birka it appears to have been used for the hangerocks or as decoration (HAGG 1986, p.61).
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===Embroidery===
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===Small neck brooches===
For more information see [[Brooches - Viking Styles#Small convex round brooches|Small neck brooches]].
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|Archaeology=
* Birka, Sweden (----) some found with linen shifts.
|Discussion=
In the area around the Baltic Sea small penannulars were sometimes used for the same purpose [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980: p.29]
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==References==
{{Ref|Geijer 1938}}
{{Ref|Graham-Campbell 1980}}
{{Ref|Hagg 1986}}
{{Ref|Owen-Crocker 2004}}
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[[Category:Women's Clothing]]
