[MR] Fwd: [Norsefolk_2] Oseberg book out

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I've  looked at the book today ;
"Oseberg Textiles" 
Arne Emil Christensen and  Margareta Nockert, 
ISBN 82-8984-024-9

There are lots of  illustrations and photoes with english captions and 
a fairly extensive  english summary. Probably not extensive enough for 
the true textile buff  though.
:-)

Main topics ; 
Tapestries, silk fragments, some  embroidery and other textile 
fragments. Good closeups of the textile  fragments showing the weave 
and pattern clearly. The size is easy to  figure out due to a ruler 
next to the fragments. Lots of drawings, photoes  and more of the silk 
fragments and tapestry photoes I haven't seen before.  A glaring lack 
of photoes and illustrations of the seams on the fragments  containing 
such though. Mind you I just skimmed the book.

Less  usefull than Woven into the earth, the MOL series and even the 
Högom  book(migration era) but definetly a book to buy or at least 
borrow and  partially scan(illustrations and photoes) and 
copy(summaries). For english  speakers NOT too nutty in general about 
textiles, the last option might be  best. For the rest out there.....
you might as well get it since you've  already bought way more books 
than you need  anyway.
:-D