Clothing Decoration
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Viking Age Compendium articles on Textiles:
Clothing in the Viking Age could be decorated in a number of ways:
Facings
An applied strip of cloth in a differnt colour attached at the neck, cuffs and around the hem of the skirt.
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Embroidery
Applied to facings or directly onto the cloth. Roundles are popular.
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Braid
Decorative braids are sometimes applied along seams
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Tablet Weave
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- Norway, Oseburg. c.834.
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Silk Ribbons
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Possaments
Only found in Eastern Viking contexts.
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