Viking Age Cloth Fragments with Bronze Ring Adornments
Viking Age Cloth Fragments with Bronze Ring Adornments
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Viking Age, c. 793-1066 AD, Scandinavia
A truly magnificent and exceptionally rare set of Viking Age textile fragments, featuring original bronze ring decorations. These remarkable remnants offer a direct connection to the craftsmanship and daily life of the Norse people during the height of their legendary era of exploration, conquest, and trade.
Fashion played a vital role in Viking society, reflecting status, wealth, and regional identity. Woven by skilled women using locally available materials such as hemp and flax, textiles were both practical and decorative. Vikings of all social classes adorned their attire with jewelry, including rings, beads, brooches, and amulets—often doubling as status symbols and functional fasteners.
These textile fragments, woven in a coarse tabby pattern, would have once formed part of a Viking garment, possibly a cloak or tunic, enhanced with bronze rings for added embellishment. Artifacts of this nature are incredibly rare, making them an invaluable addition to any collection of Viking antiquities.
A must-have for serious collectors and enthusiasts of Viking history—own a tangible piece of the Norse world.
Good condition. Fragile. Age-related heavy wear. Corrosion, dirt and soil. Encrusted green patina. Size approx. 21,5cm x 7,0cm x 0,3cm. Sell as a set.
Provenance: Danish private collection.
References and further reading:
Clothing in the Viking Age, Hurstwic, William R. Shor, 1999-2023 (https://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/clothing.htm)
Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts, Ingvild Øye, Oxbow Books, 2022. (https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2mm1xqj.)
Textiles in a Viking Age hoard: Identifying ephemeral traces of textiles in metal corrosion products, Mary Davis & Susanna Harris, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 48, 2023. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103796.)
Viking and Early Middle Ages Northern Scandinavian Textiles Proven to be made with Hemp, G. Skoglund, M. Nockert & B. Holst, Sci Rep 3, 2686 (2013). (https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02686)
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