Study and Recreation of the Eura Dress In deciding where to start I considered the following points: - something that caught my eye - ability to expand my knowledge - ease for use in summer and winter - bling (higher class than average to go with Baronnial staus) - cost and time - if possible narrow down to one find to make replication simpler, (not necessarily easily) and documentable. Grave 56 at Luistari, Eura fit this criteria. While not much fabric was obtained there was enough for modern research and scientific techniques to obtain information regarding colours, fabrics and metals used. Dyeing techniques including mordants can be ascertained using liquid chromatography methodology, giving us information about plants/roots and metals involved in these processes. We also know that indigo was used to obtain the blue, thus indicating that Eura was on the trade route for indigo was not locally obtained or produced. Fabrics were mainly wool, though hemp and linen were detected. In our Australian climate I will be using linen for my under-dresses instead of wool as it would be too temperate to wear wool in our summers. Metals were vastly bronze and brass in grave 56. The woman aged approximately 45, was considered to have been wealthy, so probably a wife of a prominent member in the region. The five main components of this dress style include a headdress, under-dress, mantle dress, apron, and cloak. This I can do ;-) Here is the research that I obtained to help me navigate and choose it as my first Finnish attempt. Eura Dress Construction Study and Recreation of the Eura Dress Prehistoric Eura - From the Stone Age to the Crusade Period Here is a single grave, of a woman, around my age, wearing higher status garb that I can make and replicate. All aspects can be looked into and researched and documented - plus most aspects I can have a go at myself over a period of time (making fabric on a loom, dyeing techniques experimenting with mordants and plants, tablet weaving both on and off the fabric weave loom) . I can also get access to, or make, the accessories. It allows scope for research, persona development, lifestyle research and development as well as a new name choice! This is the one. I have my new garb project that can be simple to begin with, and extended and added to as I research and experiment with techniques along the way. Examples of Eura dress reconstruction for resource and further reflection:
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AuthorI love to research....anything. So, faced with time on my hands at the end of a University degree and also stepping down as the Baroness of Mordenvale, what have I done to fill my time. Study of course. Period feasts and the decorating of them. A new persona for after I stepped down (bye Tasia). This blog is a summary and more of the research that lead to this point, and what ever I do there after as Tórfa. Archives |