Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Textiles
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Description: Concise history of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking crafts of hand yarn spinning, dyeing and cloth weaving. From Regia Anglorum.
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Textiles An Anglo-Saxon lady spinning wool with a drop spindle. The weaving industry in Anglo-Saxon and Viking England was huge, for it's time. Saxon and Viking women, and in all likelihood men, were very skilled at cloth making. Raw flax and wool was spun into yarn, this was then dyed or bleached, woven into cloth and then cut and sewn into the garments their families needed. Socks and gloves were made with nothing more than wood, bone or bronze needle and a ball of yarn. They could even spin very fine silk threads and weave these into decorative braids, although it is more likely that they only ever saw the thread rather than the raw silk fibres. These finer quality fabrics would quite probably have been sold in the markets, especially by specialist producers.
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