Sweden

Walpurgis Night

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Sweden

We are celebrating the arrival of Spring, Walburgis, and would like to invite you to celebrate this event with us!  Come to the Viking town and enjoy the Spring, that is hopefully here, chat with Vikings, stroll around and check out the buildings in the town. 

Nordic Tablet Weaving Conference

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Länsmuseet Gävleborg (SE)
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Sweden

The Nordisk Brickvävningskonferens is supposed to be held every other year in the various Nordic countries. The purpose is to meet other tablet weavers, learn more about different  finds, techniques and more. There will be interesting courses with very skilled teachers.

Craft week

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Sweden

A warm welcome to the crafts week! During this week, Vitlycke Museum's Bronze Age farm becomes a handicraft farm, an open space for all our visitors to roam around in and learn, ask questions or just feel the atmosphere. It will be cast, woven, sewn and burned.

Book Review: A Handbook for Men's Clothing of the Late 15th Century by Anna Malmborg & Willhelm Schütz

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Jens Börner 1
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Although there is a wide variety of publications about costume history and of single archaeological sites with textile remains of period clothing, the number of books that interdisciplinarily cover the fashion of past eras in the context of different source categories is, frankly, really small. Some attempts to draw a complete image of medieval fashion simply fail just because of the scale of it; others try to...

Book Review: A Handbook for Women's Clothing of the Late 15th Century by Anna Malmborg & Willhelm Schütz

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Thit Birk Petersen 1
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Medieval re-enactment, especially late 15th century, has become increasingly popular during the past 15-20 years and it seems like the growth will not stop anytime soon (unless the Viking re-enactment takes over as a consequence of the popular culture and mainstream focus – but that is another discussion). The book is part of a series ''Historical Clothing From the Inside Out'' from different historical periods...

Viking Jewellery Mould Making. Experimental and Reconstructive Aspects

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Anders Söderberg 1
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Craftsmanship relies upon the silent knowledge of the skilled experience of the creative workings of the hands, a knowledge that is difficult to convert to written characters without creating a blur of words that make very little sense. Theoretical reasoning lacks the dialogue with, and the resistance from, the raw material. Making up a picture of how wax, clay and metal would behave without practical experience of them is...

Event Review: NEMO Training Course ‘Regional Development through Heritage in Sweden’ in Östersund, Sweden

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Annemarie Pothaar 1
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Annemarie Pothaar was selected to attend the one day NEMO training course on 29th June 2018 in Östersund Sweden. This was facilitated by the Jamtli Foundation and the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity (NCK). The meeting was attended by six colleagues coming from different countries, including the Netherlands and Azerbaijan...